USA Today – Aug 2 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: ADDON, ANTE, LED, MASH, NOON, ROSA, STARS.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| $5 bill, slangily | ABE |
| ‘A Christmas Carol’ boy | TINYTIM |
| ‘Born Free’ lioness | ELSA |
| ‘Columbo’ star Peter | FALK |
| ‘Toodle-oo!’ | CIAO |
| Advance on a balk | ONEBASE |
| Auction assents | NODS |
| Barnyard sound | OINK |
| Batik artist, e.g | DYER |
| BBC watcher’s set | TELLY |
| Build an extra room, say | ADDON |
| Building material that may contain straw | ADOBE |
| Carnival city, briefly | RIO |
| Castor and Pollux, for two | STARS |
| Circular gaskets | ORINGS |
| Cocoon occupant | PUPA |
| Collin with the No. 1 country hit ‘Love, Me’ | RAYE |
| Cruise departure spots | PIERS |
| Daly of ‘Judging Amy’ | TYNE |
| Division word | INTO |
| Dropped for a 10-count, briefly | KOD |
| Electric train name | LIONEL |
| Embellish, as a resume | PAD |
| Fair-to-middling | SOSO |
| Foaming at the mouth | IRATE |
| French realist Bonheur | ROSA |
| From Belgrade | SERBIAN |
| Gets blubbery | CRIES |
| Grasshopper’s rebuker, in fable | ANT |
| Hard, wavy confection | RIBBONCANDY |
| Heart vocalist Wilson | ANN |
| Henrik who wrote ‘Peer Gynt’ | IBSEN |
| Hoda Kotb’s show | TODAY |
| Jacob Riis, notably | REFORMER |
| Jon Arbuckle’s drooling pet | ODIE |
| Kilted musician | PIPER |
| Knock senseless | DAZE |
| Koch or Giuliani, once | MAYOR |
| Lamp fuel | KEROSENE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Legs, slangily | GAMS |
| Less sterile | GERMIER |
| Letter-shaped lab vessel | UTUBE |
| Life of ___ (ease) | RILEY |
| Lo-cal, in ads | LITE |
| Low-paid laborer | PEON |
| Lunch hour, maybe | NOON |
| Mario who portrayed Caruso | LANZA |
| MGM mascot | LEO |
| NASA ‘walk’ | EVA |
| No later than | UPTO |
| Opening on some pajamas | FLAP |
| Organs near the diaphragm | LUNGS |
| Part of an ancient alphabet | RUNE |
| Pays a visit to | SEES |
| Penny, perhaps | ANTE |
| Place for a travel mug, perhaps | CUPHOLDER |
| Place for magnets | FRIDGE |
| Police officer’s identifying figure | BADGENUMBER |
| Popular golf scoring system | MEDALPLAY |
| Praises to the skies | LAUDS |
| Produce leaves | FOLIATE |
| Reach the heavens | SOAR |
| Regret bitterly | RUE |
| Remove to a MASH, briefly | EVAC |
| Reply to ‘That a fact?’ | ITIS |
| Risk a perjury rap | LIE |
| Scrooge or Marner | MISER |
| Super-G, e.g | SKIRACE |
| Tackle box item | SINKER |
| The Big Band ___ | ERA |
| Took the reins | LED |
| Tram cargo | ORE |
| Trim to fit, say | EDIT |
| Typesetters’ units | PICAS |
| Unsettled issues | IFS |
| Vocal quartet member | ALTO |
| Volcanic spew | ASH |
| Wave’s peak | CREST |