USA Today – Apr 21 2020 – Puzzle Solutions
Published in USA Today Crossword.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Becoming’ author Michelle | OBAMA |
| ‘Building’ disconnected from the real world | IVORYTOWER |
| ‘Downton Abbey’ worker | MAID |
| ‘It’s ___-win situation!’ | ANO |
| ‘Look ___ this way . . .’ | ATIT |
| ‘My bowl is empty,’ perhaps | MEOW |
| ‘No ___!’ (‘Don’t mention it!’) | PROB |
| ‘Now That the Buffalo’s Gone’ singer Buffy Sainte-___ | MARIE |
| ‘The Bold Type’ star Aisha | DEE |
| ‘What ___ is new?’ | ELSE |
| Alert color | RED |
| Alma ___ | MATER |
| Barbecue joint side | SLAW |
| Bouncing sound | ECHO |
| Brazilian city, for short | RIO |
| Bread for a reuben | RYE |
| Burrowing critter of the plains | PRAIRIEDOG |
| Buster’s partner | DAVE |
| Butterfly relative | MOTH |
| Came up | AROSE |
| Canuck, the knife-stealing icon of Vancouver, for one | CROW |
| Casino game | CRAPS |
| Cream cheese option | CHIVE |
| Cricket field shape | OVAL |
| Crystal ball user | SEER |
| Cuatro doubled | OCHO |
| Electrically flexible | ACDC |
| Evasive language | WEASELWORDS |
| Fruit cocktail ingredient | PEAR |
| Fundamental nature | ESSENCE |
| Furniture chain that sells mustard | IKEA |
| Gives in to gravity | SAGS |
| Handout at a school play | PROGRAM |
| It’s drawn for lab tests | BLOOD |
| Jazz legend Armstrong | LOUIS |
| Kanga’s son in ‘Christopher Robin’ | ROO |
| Like a parka | HOODED |
| Lima’s state | OHIO |
| Long-handled tools | RAKES |
| Make a trade | SWAP |
| Meal starters, for short | APPS |
| Meaning of X, sometimes | KISS |
| Midmonth day, in ancient Rome | IDES |
| Model Jordyn | WOODS |
| Move slowly | CREEP |
| Moved quickly | SPED |
| Moves slowly | SEEPS |
| Network with an eye logo | CBS |
| Night before | EVE |
| Not as frequently | LESS |
| Not bold | MEEK |
| Not departing on time | DELAYED |
| Numerical comparison | RATIO |
| Numerical range | SCALE |
| Parking place | LOT |
| Person who acts superior | SNOB |
| Pick up on | PERCEIVE |
| Place for bronze medalists | THIRD |
| Possess | HAVE |
| Russo who played Frigga in ‘Thor’ | RENE |
| Severe | STERN |
| Six-ball sets, in cricket | OVERS |
| Some sunglasses | CLIPONS |
| Sound-boosting device | AMP |
| Source of aggravation | PETPEEVE |
| Sown things | SEEDS |
| Spanish for ‘bull’ | TORO |
| Stage signals | CUES |
| Tapered fold in a skirt | DART |
| The Funk Brothers, e.g | BACKINGBAND |
| They may be cloudy or sunny | SKIES |
| Three squared | NINE |
| Tights material | LYCRA |
| Tooth covering | ENAMEL |
| Tree part | LIMB |
| Vice ___ | VERSA |
| Word after ‘stage’ or ‘screen’ | DOOR |
| ___ acids | AMINO |