USA Today - Dec 17 2018 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
'I've ___!' (quitter's words)	HADIT
'Moldy' tune	OLDIE
'My guess is . . .'	IDSAY
'Roots' author Haley	ALEX
'Swan Lake' attire	TUTU
'That's strange . . .'	ODD
'The View' cohost Joy	BEHAR
Any of nine inspirational goddesses	MUSE
Balboa's portrayer	STALLONE
Belgrade native	SERB
Biden's successor	PENCE
Blacken, as a steak	CHAR
Blow away	STUN
Carrier with a King David Club	ELAL
Cause of an air quality alert	SMOG
Destination for a stolen 6-Across	CHOPSHOP
Diner worker	COOK
Either co-discoverer of radium	CURIE
Flaring dress type	ALINE
Ford or Lincoln	AUTO
Graduate's accessory	TASSEL
Hair securer that's slightly curved	BANANACLIP
Have a meeting	CONVENE
Home of twigs	NEST
Home that's abuzz	HIVE
Improve, as a skill	HONE
In a foxy way	SLYLY
Indefinite amount	ANY
Insert or Delete	KEY
Insurer with a duck mascot	AFLAC
Lake on the Colorado River	MEAD
Legumes in some soup	NAVYBEANS
Like convenient shopping	ONESTOP
Loses traction	SLIPS
Make euphoric	ELATE
Many a PTA member	MOM
Men's Wearhouse buy	SUIT
Metal-cutting tool	COLDCHISEL
Minnesota's southern neighbor	IOWA
Mixed in with	AMID
Needing a refill	LOW
Newly invigorated	REBORN
Nobel Peace Prize city	OSLO
Off-kilter	ASKEW
Olive with a spinach-eating beau	OYL
One of a pair of gloves, to the other	MATE
Ostrich kin from Down Under	EMU
Parts of school years	SEMESTERS
Pete Rose's nickname	CHARLIEHUSTLE
Physician to several emperors	GALEN
Place for a 25-Across	CAP
Place for an ingredients list	LABEL
Place to fish or dock	PIER
Reception with scones	TEA
Ring at a luau	LEI
Ritz-Carlton competitor	OMNI
Road trip expense	GAS
Rotary tool in a wood shop	LATHE
Royal sister-in-law of Meghan	KATE
Run-down dwelling	SHACK
Shaq in The General commercials	ONEAL
Six-sided state	UTAH
Slow as molasses	POKY
Soaring up the charts	HOT
Team with a horseshoe logo	COLTS
Tend to a fairway	MOW
Tests not taken in silence	ORALS
They've split	EXES
Topic in Vogue	STYLE
Totally bewildered	ATSEA
TSA ___ (screening program)	PRE
Unlikely to cause heartburn	MILD
Unnatural, in a way	EERIE
Where a car moves vertically	ELEVATORSHAFT
Woodwind player's buy	REED
Word after phone or laser	TAG
Yule greenery	HOLLY
Zap during a riot, perhaps	TASE