USA Today – Aug 7 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: ABASE, ALAS, ANTI, Ireland, KNEE, MARIA, NASA.
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| 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 |