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 |