USA Today - September 26 2017 Wednesday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Sep 26 2017 Wednesday

Clue	Solution
Ethereal glows	AURAS
Replace a button, say	SEW
What roller coasters roll on	RAILS
Drink noisily	SLURP
Self-promoter’s trait	EGO
Movie with the song "Tomorrow"	ANNIE
Tense situation, symbolically	KNIFEEDGE
Lasso loop	NOOSE
Word in Mexican place names	SAN
Kindergarten sculpture material	CLAY
Sarongs and tutus	SKIRTS
Reducer’s regimen	DIET
Open one’s wallet	SPEND
Belief mentioned in the Apostles’ Creed	LIFEEVERLASTING
States unashamedly	AVOWS
Taboo contraction, to a grammar purist	AINT
___’wester	NOR
Sinise who portrayed Truman	GARY
Goes for a dip	SWIMS
Computer input or output	DATA
Number in many odds figures	ONE
Travel like free-range chickens	ROAM
Gown material	SATIN
Homeless shelter, e.g.	SAFEENVIRONMENT
Cavity filler	INLAY
Name at airport rental counters	AVIS
Trough in a nativity scene	MANGER
Hedge shears sound	SNIP
Pompeii coating	ASH
NBA legend Baylor	ELGIN
Feature of some contracts, and a hint to 17-, 25- and 41-Across	HIDDENFEE
Blood flow restorer	STENT
Big bother	ADO
Like most of Wyoming	RURAL
Tender spots	SORES
Tiara sparkler	GEM
Walk like the Hulk	STOMP
Seeks permission from	ASKS
Elbow-to-wrist bone	ULNA
Cause to go bankrupt	RUIN
Reply to "Speak, boy!"	ARF
Homo sapiens, for man	SPECIES
Hit with a tranquilizer dart, say	SEDATE
Like custard	EGGY
Gloom and doom	WOE
Most foul-smelling	RANKEST
Apply holy oil to	ANOINT
Uncalled-for	INORDINATE
Santa’s reference	LIST
Takes a meeting with	SEES
Dist. above sea level	ELEV
Bridge measures	SPANS
Like grass at dawn, perhaps	DEWY
Unlikely, as odds go	SLIM
Nigeria’s largest city	LAGOS
Predecessor of Marla and Melania	IVANA
Pointing digit	FOREFINGER
Sam who directed "Spider-Man"	RAIMI
Away from home	NOTIN
Portrait on the fifty	GRANT
Technique using underwater acoustics	SONAR
Like permed hair	WAVY
Hydropower structures	DAMS
Backs off	RELENTS
SWAT marksmen	SNIPERS
Diesel or Wankel invention	ENGINE
Like the outcome of a dice roll	RANDOM
"Amores" poet	OVID
Slob’s creation	MESS
Glee club voice	ALTO
Polygon part	SIDE
Hairstyle in "Hair"	AFRO
Tailor’s border	SEAM
Call to a lifeguard	HELP
Woman with a stereotypically warty nose	HAG
Morsel in tavern mix	NUT