September 27 2017 - USA Today Crossword Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| "Amores" poet | OVID |
| Apply holy oil to | ANOINT |
| Away from home | NOTIN |
| Backs off | RELENTS |
| Belief mentioned in the Apostles' Creed | LIFEEVERLASTING |
| Big bother | ADO |
| Blood flow restorer | STENT |
| Bridge measures | SPANS |
| Call to a lifeguard | HELP |
| Cause to go bankrupt | RUIN |
| Cavity filler | INLAY |
| Computer input or output | DATA |
| Diesel or Wankel invention | ENGINE |
| Dist. above sea level | ELEV |
| Drink noisily | SLURP |
| Elbow-to-wrist bone | ULNA |
| Ethereal glows | AURAS |
| Feature of some contracts, and a hint to 17-, 25- and 41-Across | HIDDENFEE |
| Glee club voice | ALTO |
| Gloom and doom | WOE |
| Goes for a dip | SWIMS |
| Gown material | SATIN |
| Hairstyle in "Hair" | AFRO |
| Hedge shears sound | SNIP |
| Hit with a tranquilizer dart, say | SEDATE |
| Homeless shelter, e.g | SAFEENVIRONMENT |
| Homo sapiens, for man | SPECIES |
| Hydropower structures | DAMS |
| Kindergarten sculpture material | CLAY |
| Lasso loop | NOOSE |
| Like custard | EGGY |
| Like grass at dawn, perhaps | DEWY |
| Like most of Wyoming | RURAL |
| Like permed hair | WAVY |
| Like the outcome of a dice roll | RANDOM |
| Morsel in tavern mix | NUT |
| Most foul-smelling | RANKEST |
| Movie with the song "Tomorrow" | ANNIE |
| Name at airport rental counters | AVIS |
| NBA legend Baylor | ELGIN |
| Nigeria's largest city | LAGOS |
| Number in many odds figures | ONE |
| Open one's wallet | SPEND |
| Pointing digit | FOREFINGER |
| Polygon part | SIDE |
| Pompeii coating | ASH |
| Portrait on the fifty | GRANT |
| Predecessor of Marla and Melania | IVANA |
| Reducer's regimen | DIET |
| Replace a button, say | SEW |
| Reply to "Speak, boy!" | ARF |
| Sam who directed "Spider-Man" | RAIMI |
| Santa's reference | LIST |
| Sarongs and tutus | SKIRTS |
| Seeks permission from | ASKS |
| Self-promoter's trait | EGO |
| Sinise who portrayed Truman | GARY |
| Slob's creation | MESS |
| States unashamedly | AVOWS |
| SWAT marksmen | SNIPERS |
| Taboo contraction, to a grammar purist | AINT |
| Tailor's border | SEAM |
| Takes a meeting with | SEES |
| Technique using underwater acoustics | SONAR |
| Tender spots | SORES |
| Tense situation, symbolically | KNIFEEDGE |
| Tiara sparkler | GEM |
| Travel like free-range chickens | ROAM |
| Trough in a nativity scene | MANGER |
| Uncalled-for | INORDINATE |
| Unlikely, as odds go | SLIM |
| Walk like the Hulk | STOMP |
| What roller coasters roll on | RAILS |
| Woman with a stereotypically warty nose | HAG |
| Word in Mexican place names | SAN |
| ___'wester | NOR |