USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Apr 4 2018 Wednesday
| Clues | Answers |
| “Game of Thrones” has won 38 to date | EMMYS |
| 2017 honor for Matthew Broderick | OBIE |
| Afghanistan’s capital | KABUL |
| Antlered bugler | ELK |
| Arcade machine inputs, once | PENNIES |
| Batting practice enclosures | CAGES |
| Beauty, in a simple way | ELEGANCE |
| Boombox component | RADIO |
| Breaker of writer’s block | IDEA |
| Bunyan’s bovine friend | BABE |
| Cause of a red face, perhaps | IRE |
| Circumference segment | ARC |
| Comic Con setup | BOOTH |
| Competed in ice dancing | SKATED |
| Decisive victory for Rocky | KAYO |
| Do more than just ask | URGE |
| Doesn’t stand erect | LEANS |
| Dubbed gentlemen | SIRS |
| DVR pioneer | TIVO |
| Far from clumsy | AGILE |
| Fluffy lap dog, for short | POM |
| France with a 1921 Nobel | ANATOLE |
| Friend of Aramis and Porthos | ATHOS |
| Fruit picker in Genesis | EVE |
| Get out of the sack | ARISE |
| Gilbert and Sullivan specialty | LIGHT OPERA |
| Go soft, in a way | MELT |
| iDevice downloads | APPS |
| Instrument in much Hawaiian music | STEEL GUITAR |
| Invoice phrase | BALANCEDUE |
| Like all Scotch whisky | AGED |
| Like an Amazon | FEMALE |
| Like fertile soil | LOAMY |
| Like many Pacific Rim lands | ASIAN |
| Literary Lorna | DOONE |
| MASH part | ARMY |
| MASH setups | TENTS |
| Mineral in hemoglobin | IRON |
| Moviedom’s Woody or Chucky | DOLL |
| Musk of SpaceX | ELON |
| Nabisco’s flagship brand | OREO |
| Original NATO member | USA |
| Passage for exhaust gases | FLUE |
| Past the “sell-by” date, perhapsend | BAD |
| Pinkett Smith of “Ali” | JADA |
| Place, as a point on a graph | PLOT |
| Plugging away | ATIT |
| Postponement, as of a decision | DEFERRAL |
| Pre-Christmas mailing | CARD |
| Quote on hotels.com | RATE |
| Revealing skirt feature | SLIT |
| Room painter’s estimate | AREA |
| Scorch on a grill | SEAR |
| See 41-Down | ALDA |
| Sharpshooter’s aid | SCOPE |
| Shoe brand named for a cat | PUMA |
| Simba’s mate | NALA |
| Small house with a porch, typically | BUNGALOW |
| Smile (and a word that can follow the first parts of 21- and 49-Across and 3- and 29-Down) | BEAM |
| Snobbish sorts | SNOOTS |
| Some pottery class projects | URNS |
| Stake that can be upped | ANTE |
| Surface quickly, like a cork | BOBUP |
| Take to the cleaners, so to speak | BILK |
| Takes the plunge | WEDS |
| They’re laid in shipyards | KEELS |
| Tomato used in sauces | ROMA |
| Troubled incessantly | ATEAT |
| TTYL part | YOU |
| Twenty percent | ONEFIFTH |
| Typeface subsection | FONT |
| Val Kilmer’s role in “The Doors” | JIM MORRISON |
| Viva voce | ORAL |
| When nine-to-fivers work | DAYS |
| Where Stanley sought Livingstone | AFRICA |
| With 36-Across, “Bridge of Spies” actor | ALAN |
| Word after labor or life | FORCE |
| Word on a fire alarm | PULL |
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