USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Apr 2 2018 Monday
| Clues | Answers |
| Al who created Dogpatch | CAPP |
| Bakers’ creations | CAKES |
| Catches in a trap | ENSNARES |
| Celeb couple, in tabloids | ITEM |
| Charm school subject | POISE |
| Clingy wrap brand | SARAN |
| Commend for bravery, say | CITE |
| Cultural grant org. | NEA |
| Dismissed unceremoniously | AXED |
| Engaged in hostilities | WARRED |
| Entree gowiths | SIDES |
| Equitable opportunity | FAIRSHAKE |
| Event on a store circular | SALE |
| Examined thoroughly, as for evidence | PROBED |
| Fit for the task | ABLE |
| Fleetfooted avians | EMUS |
| Foam noodle or inflatable raft | POOL FLOAT |
| Grabbed forty winks | DOZED |
| Grand Canyon formations | MESAG |
| Gumbo need | OKRA |
| Hatcher of “Planes” | TERI |
| Have a lofty ambition | ASPIRE |
| Highway patrol device | RADAR |
| Hoer’s target | WEED |
| HP competitor | DELL |
| Illuminator in a shirt pocket, perhaps | PENLIGHT |
| In a frenzied way | AMOK |
| Issuance of new shares | STOCK SPLIT |
| Lei giver’s greeting | ALOHA |
| Lift with great effort | HEAVE |
| Like 18K gold, visavis 14K gold | FINER |
| Like gruel | WATERY |
| Limited number of | FEW |
| Lord High Everything ___ | ELSE |
| Made a mad dash | TORE |
| Makes wearisome | JADES |
| Mary of “The Maltese Falcon” | ASTOR |
| Meerkat in “The Lion King” | TIMON |
| Modernize, as decor | REDO |
| Monster in Grimm tales | OGRE |
| Musk of Neuralink and OpenAI | ELON |
| Neatnik’s desire | ORDER |
| No longer obsessed with | OVER |
| Noodles in many dorm rooms | RAMEN |
| Not singlegender | COED |
| Orator of old Rome | CICERO |
| Overhead bin contents | BAGS |
| Paddington Bear’s homeland | PERU |
| Pals, to a Brit | LADS |
| Parked oneself | SAT |
| Pep talk audience | TEAM |
| Pest in a swarm | GNAT |
| Piano student’s exercise | ETUDE |
| Place to buy a whoopee cushion | JOKESHOP |
| Places to deplane | GATES |
| Prearranged the winner of | FIXED |
| Purring pet, casually | PUSSY |
| Quadruped’s foreleg bone | ULNA |
| Rain in bucketfuls | TEEM |
| Rattle, in a way | FAZE |
| Refrigerator boxful that absorbs 26Down | BAKING SODA |
| Roomy Dior dresses | ALINES |
| Senator’s gofer | PAGE |
| Signs of decay | ODORS |
| Square on a biscuit | PAT |
| Strands at a ski lodge, perhaps | ICESIN |
| Studied intently, with “over” | PORED |
| Subject that’s best avoided | SORESPOT |
| Supports a telethon | GIVES |
| Talk gibberish | PRATE |
| Teakettle’s spot | STOVE |
| Tickled pink | GLAD |
| Track and field spheroid | SHOT |
| Turkey meat option | DARK |
| Typically black reed instrument | OBOE |
| Was bursting at the seams | BULGED |
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