USA Today - December 18 2019 Wednesday Crossword Puzzle Solutions

USA Today - Dec 18 2019 Wednesday 

Clues	Answers
'Rats!'	DANG
'Respect' singer	FRANKLIN
'Skip me'	IPASS
'Somebody told a ___ one day . . .' (MLK)	LIE
'You're ___ amazing, sweetie'	DOING
Achy	SORE
Acknowledgments	HATTIPS
Air kiss sound	MWAH
Android version between Nougat and Pie	OREO
Apple music device	IPOD
Australia's national gemstone	OPAL
Award for a show	TONY
Award for a show	EMMY
Blow through the budget	SPEND
Breaking stuff	NEWS
Choose not to include	OMIT
Cider fodder	APPLES
Color in old photos	SEPIA
Come up	ARISE
Common Korean family name	KIM
Costa ___	RICA
Country whose capital is Abu Dhabi, for short	UAE
Dark aesthetic	GOTH
Diving board places	POOLS
Drink like a cat	LAP
During	AMID
Frilly fabric	LACE
Garam masala spice	CUMIN
Get off ___-free	SCOT
Golf hole number	PAR
Hardens	SETS
Hip-hop duo Salt-N-___	PEPA
Honeydew, e.g	MELON
Ilhan of Congress	OMAR
Jazz bandleader Count	BASIE
Large units of weight	TONS
Leg muscle	CALF
Liability's counterpart	ASSET
Like bulls and bucks	MALE
Little pictures	ICONS
Massage	RUB
Mint cocktail	JULEP
Music of '60s Tennessee	MEMPHISSOUL
Nobel laureate who said 'If I tried to write a universal nov	MORRISON
Overtime format	SUDDENDEATH
Package-shipping option	UPS
Palindromic bread	NAAN
Pickling herb	DILL
Piece of data	STAT
Positioned	INPLACE
Positioned perilously	OUTONALIMB
Privy to, as a plan	INON
Promise of repayment	IOU
Repay a sleep debt, say	REST
Respectful address	SIR
Ridged pants, for short	CORDS
River in Egypt	NILE
Robin's home	NEST
Scott-Young who created 'Love & Hip Hop'	MONA
Side dish with cabbage	SLAW
Soda can pieces	POPTABS
Some Pennsylvania Dutch speakers	AMISH
Song for one person	SOLO
Start of a scale	DOREMI
Student	PUPIL
Supermarket section	DELI
Too many to count	JILLIONS
Transit option in D.C. or L.A	METRO
Two-wheeled vehicle	MOPED
Unreturned serves	ACES
Very large-scale	EPIC
Waned	EBBED
Window-opening figures	STARTTIMES
Word before 'hygiene' or 'history'	ORAL
Words of finality	ITSAWRAP
Workplaces for some nurses, for short	ERS
___ 51	AREA
___ and turning	TOSSING