USA Today - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BASIC UNIT OF HEREDITY GENE
Tan on a bookshelf AMY
GIVES IN TO GRAVITY SAGS
ORDER TO ROVER COME
GREEN LIGHT ASSENT
STRETCHY FABRIC LYCRA
BELIEVER'S SUFFIX IST
OFF IN THE DISTANCE AFAR
INDUSTRIOUS BUG ANT
SIMILAR ALIKE
GET UNDER CONTROL TAME
Some wall posters PINUPS
DOWN WITH SOMETHING ILL
ISLAND EAST OF JAVA BALI
GO ON AND ON YAP
EVEN SCORE TIE
LEAVE IN THE LURCH STRAND
Janelle of 'Moonlight' MONAE
PRAISE HIGHLY LAUD
PUT ON, AS A PLAY STAGE
SUNSCREEN ADDITIVE ALOE
Issa of 'Insecure' RAE
TAKE HOLD OF GRIP
'You should know better!' TSK
'That's great news!' IMSOGLAD
Short-term job GIG
FASHION DESIGNER MICHAEL KORS
WRITES A PROGRAM CODES
COUNTRY SOUTH OF SOUTH SUDAN UGANDA
MAKE PUBLIC AIR
FURTIVE 'HEY!' PSST
VERDI OPERA SET IN EGYPT AIDA
ERROR IN JUDGMENT LAPSE
PART OF A BOUT ROUND
SOURCE OF HUBRIS EGO
COOKIE BRAND SINCE 1975 FAMOUSAMOS
FIRST NATIONAL RESTAURANT CHAIN TO POST CALORIE COUNTS PANERA
UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT A CROWDFUNDING PROJECT STINGY
RESISTANCE GROUP REBELS
BIG-TOP PERFORMANCES CIRCUSACTS
ALL READY SET
GOES DIVING SCUBAS
SUPERSTITIOUS FAN'S BACKWARD GARMENT RALLYCAP
SPILL CLEANERS MOPS
RICE ON A BOOKSHELF ANNE
HAUNTED HOUSE SCREAM BOO
SOME BANGKOK POST READERS THAIS
SUFFERS A DEFEAT LOSES
FORUM WRAP TOGA
Long blog comment, perhaps RANT
SISTINE CHAPEL CEILING FIGURE ADAM
COMPETED IN SPRINTS AND SUCH RANTRACK
KERFUFFLE ADO
GLOSSY FABRIC SATIN
'Aah,' to a back rub, say RESPONSE
'That's horrible!' OHNO
Flower that's an anagram of 'tears' ASTER
Tony! Toni! Tone!, e.g TRIO
Wordless 'How dare you?!' SLAP
PIQUES, AS CURIOSITY AROUSES
SOURCE OF LIGHT SUN
GAME PLAYED ON HORSEBACK POLO
INSERT AND DELETE, FOR TWO KEYS
Seamless transitions SEGUES
'RIGHT ON!' YOUSAIDIT
TENDER-HEARTED SOFT
HOWLED AT THE MOON BAYED
MOVIE TICKET REMNANT STUB
NOT YET ACHIEVED, AS GOALS UNMET
CAMERA LENS PART IRIS
Witness's place STAND
SNEAKY TACTICS PLOYS
GOODYEAR PRODUCT TIRE
NUMBER ON A FOAM FINGER ONE
STEAL, AS A TOY DOGNAP
FAR FROM SMOOTH ROCKY
NIMBLE AGILE
HEALTHY LUNCH TOFUSALAD