USA Today – Aug 7 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: ABASE, ALAS, ANTI, Ireland, KNEE, MARIA, NASA.
Clues |
Answers |
‘Imagine that!’ |
GEE |
‘Love Song’ singer Bareilles |
SARA |
‘Thrilla in Manila’ boxer |
ALI |
1999 Jodie Foster role |
ANNA |
2015 nuke deal nation |
IRAN |
A Bobbsey twin |
NAN |
About, to a historian |
CIRCA |
Acts the quizmaster |
ASKS |
Aimed ambitiously for, with ‘to’ |
ASPIRED |
Andy’s TV and radio pal |
AMOS |
Ante, often |
CHIP |
Appetizer with a toothpick, perhaps |
CANAPE |
Benicio del Toro title role |
CHE |
Bylaw, briefly |
REG |
Calamitous situations |
CRISES |
Cause of fur loss |
MANGE |
Change in one’s visual acuity? |
SIGHTSHIFT |
Chef Emeril |
LAGASSE |
Color commentator’s tidbit |
STAT |
Color of fallen leaves |
OCHER |
Consequence of tennis elbow? |
SERVEPAIN |
Cross to bear |
ONUS |
Crystal ball gazer |
SEER |
Dodge, as taxes |
EVADE |
Enjoyed a trail |
HIKED |
EOS camera maker |
CANON |
Expel from the body |
EGEST |
Fabric made from flax |
LINEN |
Fish that’s often pickled |
HERRING |
Flagellation unit |
LASH |
Foe of Laver and Nastase |
ASHE |
Fuel common in Ireland |
PEAT |
Geographical figures |
AREAS |
Glitzy affair |
GALA |
Greedy one’s cry |
MINE |
Gridiron or court boundary |
ENDLINE |
Historian’s interest |
PAST |
Howling winds |
GALES |
It’s .5 for a 30-degree angle |
SINE |
Clues |
Answers |
Item on a docket |
CASE |
Jalopy problem |
RUST |
Leprechaun land |
ERIN |
Lower in esteem |
ABASE |
Molars do it |
GRIND |
Not in the dark |
AWARE |
One obsessed with benches and stools? |
SEATFREAK |
One of two in ‘The Help’ |
MAID |
Part of a recipe |
STEP |
Pay a visit |
CALL |
Peddler’s merchandise |
WARES |
Pistol packer in a 1943 song |
MAMA |
Product for spiffing up a sloop? |
SAILPOLISH |
Rattlesnake’s sound |
HISS |
Revolver maker Samuel |
COLT |
Rod Stewart hairdo |
SHAG |
Sally of NASA |
RIDE |
Sigh of pity |
ALAS |
Sign of spring |
ARIES |
Song eliciting a ‘Brava!’ |
ARIA |
Source of affordable furniture |
IKEA |
Spork feature |
TINE |
Stout who created Nero Wolfe |
REX |
Studio with a lion mascot |
MGM |
Suffix with lion or heir |
ESS |
Synthesizer pioneer |
MOOG |
Take a ___ (protest, in a way) |
KNEE |
Tara of ‘Sharknado’ |
REID |
Test after a review course, often |
BAREXAM |
The Corleone who said ‘I’m smart!’ |
FREDO |
Tony’s love, in ‘West Side Story’ |
MARIA |
Transactions over networks, for short |
EFTS |
Try to find |
SEEK |
Two octaves for a singer, perhaps |
RANGE |
Voting ‘nay’ |
ANTI |
Window above a door |
TRANSOM |
Writer’s block breaker |
IDEA |
Year-end temp |
SANTA |
Yearbook divisions |
CLASSES |