USA Today – Aug 16 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: ACUTE, APEMAN, ECON, EMU, ICON, SAVE, UPC.
Clues | Answers |
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ director DuVernay | AVA |
‘Biscuit’ introduced in 1912 | OREO |
‘Dad,’ to a rustic | PAW |
‘Feel the ___’ (Sanders slogan) | BERN |
‘Just sayin’,’ in texts | IMO |
‘Survivor’ teams | TRIBES |
‘The Censor’ of Rome | CATO |
‘Z,’ to a Brit | ZED |
1941 Orson Welles classic | CITIZENKANE |
Applies sloppily | DAUBS |
Arabian Peninsula sultanate | OMAN |
Avian source of red meat | EMU |
Beer hobbyist of sorts | HOMEBREWER |
Bug to no end | ANNOY |
Business school subj | ECON |
Chi-Town exchange, with ‘the’ | MERC |
College course unit | CREDIT |
Conan of late-night TV | OBRIEN |
Crimson Tide, familiarly | BAMA |
Crosstown ride, perhaps | BUS |
Forbidden fruit site | EDEN |
Go-go dancer’s wear | MINISKIRT |
Graduate’s debt, perhaps | STUDENTLOAN |
Hardly well-known | OBSCURE |
Home of twigs, perhaps | NEST |
House flippers’ deals | RESALES |
Hypothetical missing link | APEMAN |
India’s first prime minister | NEHRU |
Italian tire brand | PIRELLI |
Key in | ENTER |
Liederkranz cheese quality | ODOR |
Lightbulb, in comics | IDEA |
London or Manhattan area | SOHO |
Make a typo, say | ERR |
Mouth off | RANT |
Nary a soul | NOONE |
Nurse at a bar | SIP |
Often-microwaved noodles | RAMEN |
One in the clink | CON |
Pack firmly, as tobacco | TAMP |
Page with essays | OPED |
Part of a Lionel set | CAR |
PC introducer of 1981 | IBM |
Periods ending in ‘-zoic’ | ERAS |
Pine exudation | RESIN |
Place for antes | POT |
Ponte Vecchio’s river | ARNO |
Powerful working dog, for short | ROTTIE |
Predecessor and successor of 44-Across | LENO |
Press for payment | DUN |
Prog. for ‘Dreamers’ | DACA |
Put on a flash drive, say | SAVE |
Ran against | OPPOSED |
Read the UPC of | SCAN |
Respectful refusal | NOSIR |
Seeker of handouts | MENDICANT |
Sharp as a tack | ACUTE |
Slaps the cuffs on | NABS |
Smartphone image | ICON |
Sometimes-uneaten pizza part | CRUST |
Sounds from a bullpen | SNORTS |
Stack-serving chain | IHOP |
Suppress, as a story | SITON |
Surname at Tara | OHARA |
Take five | REST |
Take from, as savings | DIPINTO |
Terrier named for a Scottish isle | SKYE |
Three-letter scale note | SOL |
Ugly duckling, in time | SWAN |
Underdog’s win | UPSET |
USN noncom | CPO |
Utter disaster | TRAINWRECK |
Wedding party member | USHER |
Where one lives (Abbr.) | RES |
Wholly absorbed | RAPT |
Wordplay from Groucho | PUN |
___ XING (street sign) | PED |
___ Ysidro, Calif | SAN |