USA Today – Apr 19 2020 – Puzzle Solutions
Published in USA Today Crossword.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Challenge accepted!’ | ITSON |
| ‘G.I. Jane’ star | DEMIMOORE |
| ‘Got it’ | ROGER |
| ‘Gravedigger’ singer | DAVEMATTHEWS |
| ‘I’m ___ hurry’ (‘Take your time’) | INNO |
| ‘Oh, really?’ | ISIT |
| ‘Stand by Me’ singer ___ E. King | BEN |
| ‘Will & Grace’ star | DEBRAMESSING |
| ‘You and me both!’ | DITTO |
| ‘___ too shall pass’ | THIS |
| A lot of pranks happen on its first day | APRIL |
| Barclays Center, for one | ARENA |
| Bull’s-eye hitter | DART |
| Capital northeast of Vientiane | HANOI |
| Carpenter’s fastener | SCREW |
| Cause for a lettuce recall | ECOLI |
| Cause of bragging | EGO |
| Chop with an ax | HEW |
| Dame Judi | DENCH |
| Develop over time | EVOLVE |
| Dolphins quarterback in the Pro Football Hall of Fame | DANMARINO |
| Drew to a close | ENDED |
| Enjoy some 44-Across | EAT |
| Fate | KISMET |
| Florida’s second-largest city | MIAMI |
| Flower bed filler | SOIL |
| Food item similar to a bialy | ONIONBAGEL |
| Foot or pound | UNIT |
| Ford car, for short | TBIRD |
| Garden ornament that’s often bearded | GNOME |
| Gas used in lighting | NEON |
| Gather bit by bit | GLEAN |
| Go-ahead signals | NODS |
| Grannies | NANAS |
| Great Lake that touches four states | ERIE |
| Hand-holding sea animal | OTTER |
| Has the guts | DARES |
| Improv piece | SKIT |
| Lamenting poem | ELEGY |
| Late-July zodiac sign | LEO |
| Like Diwali | HINDU |
| NBA tiebreakers | OTS |
| Nori-wrapped rolls, e.g | SUSHI |
| Obamacare, for short | ACA |
| Opening words | INTRO |
| Opportunity | SHOT |
| Opposite of ‘paleo-‘ | NEO |
| Palindromic relative | DAD |
| Perform adequately | DOOK |
| Pixar clownfish | NEMO |
| Points along routes | STOPS |
| Pseudonym lead-in | AKA |
| Qutang, Wu or Xiling, along the Yangtze River | GORGE |
| Region | AREA |
| Running free | ONTHELOOSE |
| Rural storage structure | SILO |
| Shoulder muscle, for short | DELT |
| Skate park slope | RAMP |
| Skin care product | SERUM |
| Staff supervisor | BOSS |
| Swarming pest | GNAT |
| Tenant’s payment | RENT |
| Tex-___ | MEX |
| The ‘A’ in UAE | ARAB |
| The Dalai Lama went into it in 1959 | EXILE |
| The Pearl-Qatar city | DOHA |
| Theater productions | SHOWS |
| They might be soaked in tea | EGGS |
| Tie the knot | MARRY |
| Turn sharply | VEER |
| Unblinking look | STARE |
| Unforeseen glitch | SNAG |
| Value of D or G in Scrabble | TWO |
| Voice role for Idina Menzel and Gam Wichayanee | ELSA |
| Year-end mall temp | SANTA |
| Zero bid, in spades | NIL |
| ___ the dishes | WASH |
| ___-Pong | PING |