USA Today – Apr 12 2018 – Crossword Puzzle Info

USA Today – Apr 12 2018

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April 12, 2018

Clues	Answers
‘Cogito, ___ sum’	ERGO
‘Peer Gynt’ playwright Henrik	IBSEN
‘Year One’ novelist Roberts	NORA
6-Across player’s buy	REED
Additive sold at AutoZone	STP
Any Elvis tune, now	OLDIE
Archie and Jughead, perennially	TEENS
Area with dumbbells	WEIGHTROOM
Art community north of Santa Fe	TAOS
Avoid a formal wedding	ELOPE
Blew one’s stack	RAGED
Breakneck speed	FULLTILT
Brit’s ‘Nonsense!’	ROT
Burdon of the Animals	ERIC
Cabalists’ scheme, perhaps	COUP
Canal called ‘Clinton’s folly’	ERIE
Chore list heading	TODO
Containing contaminants	IMPURE
Cuban president before Raul	FIDEL
Document in a safe, perhaps	DEED
Doesn’t take off	STAYS
Doggone mad	LIVID
Doggone mad	IRATE
Either of a pair of pigtails	PLAIT
Excellent soil	LOAM
Follow, as advice	HEED
Followed, as a P.I. would	SHADOWED
Form-fitting dresses	SHEATHS
Foxx of ‘Sanford and Son’	REDD
Free from bias	FAIR
Fuel in tins	STERNO
Give the once-over	EYE
Goblet feature	STEM
Guesstimate phrase	ORSO
Happen upon	FIND
Health and good fortune	WELFARE
If-then-___ (kind of programming command)	ELSE
In proper pitch	TUNED
In ___ straits (desperate)	DIRE

Clues	Answers
Iowa Straw Poll city, once	AMES
Item in an overhead bin, perhaps	SUITCARRIER
Jay-Z, e.g	RAPPER
Labor-management go-between	SHOPSTEWARD
LAPD advisory	APB
Large-beaked parrot	MACAW
Literary governess Jane	EYRE
Luxury sheet material	SATIN
Major ISP	AOL
May birthstones	EMERALDS
Much of the time	ALOT
Muesli morsel	OAT
Nomadic tribe	HORDE
Orchestra’s ‘tuning fork’	OBOE
Org. with Bulls and Bucks	NBA
Outing for four	DOUBLEDATE
Part of a royal flush	TEN
PC command under ‘File’	SAVE
PDQ, in the ICU	STAT
Peaty expanse	MOOR
Peephole’s place	DOOR
Place for a nest or icicle	EAVE
Place for a rototiller	SHED
Play shortstop, e.g	FIELD
Plucked instrument	HARP
Polygon parts	SIDES
Porcine tusker	BOAR
Prove false	BELIE
Response to ‘Do you mind?’	NOTATALL
Rogen of ‘The Green Hornet’	SETH
Signal hello or goodbye	WAVE
Soul mate, in song (and a hint to this puzzle’s theme)	BODY
Spelling of ‘Scary Movie 2’	TORI
Spreadsheet filler	DATA
Symbol in a religious painting	HALO
Turns to confetti	SHREDS
Upper hand	EDGE
Way around D.C	METRO
What docs prescribe	MEDS