USA Today – Dec 22 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: ADLIB, EMU, ETON, WADE.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Beg pardon . . .’ | AHEM |
| ‘Giant’ novelist Ferber | EDNA |
| ‘It’s about time!’ | ATLAST |
| A Bobbsey twin | BERT |
| Affirm to be true | ATTEST |
| Airline with kosher meals | ELAL |
| Answer an e-vite | REPLY |
| Art who played Norton | CARNEY |
| Banded mineral | AGATE |
| Bushel or peck | UNIT |
| Components of gym sets | REPS |
| Cover with droplets | BEDEW |
| Did a face-plant, say | FELL |
| Did the Iditarod, say | RACED |
| Dixie bread | PONE |
| Duck foot feature | WEB |
| Ed of ‘Roots’ | ASNER |
| Edith who sang ‘La Vie en rose’ | PIAF |
| Element in meteorites | IRON |
| Enjoy the kiddie pool | WADE |
| Fails to keep up | LAGS |
| Fasteners on trunks | HASPS |
| Fieri or Lagasse | CHEF |
| Fixes, as an election | RIGS |
| Flip chart support | EASEL |
| Full of sass | PERT |
| GOP candidates, collectively | REPUBLICANSLATE |
| Hat, slangily | LID |
| Have an anxiety attack | PANIC |
| Having the know-how | ABLE |
| Hayworth of ‘Gilda’ | RITA |
| High-five sound | SLAP |
| Hold in high regard | VALUE |
| Intensify, slangily | AMPUP |
| Jack or hammer | TOOL |
| Layer of huge green eggs | EMU |
| Like hens’ teeth, so it’s said | SCARCE |
| Like some fingerprints | LATENT |
| Little shaver | LAD |
| Many a Groucho quip | PUN |
| Many a summer temp | TEEN |
| Monica with three French Open wins | SELES |
| More than just suggest | URGE |
| One way to pay | CASH |
| Out of a job | IDLE |
| Oyster’s home | BED |
| Penurious state | NEED |
| Place for a Brazilian wax | SPA |
| Place to build | LOT |
| Pregame scoreboard posting | STARTINGLINEUP |
| Quench, as thirst | SLAKE |
| Rani’s wrap | SARI |
| Realty ad figure | AREA |
| Recyclable container | CAN |
| Replaceable smartphone part | SCREEN |
| School founded by Henry VI | ETON |
| Serengeti equine | ZEBRA |
| Sharon of Israel | ARIEL |
| Smooth musical transition | SEGUE |
| Spray-on salon treatment | TAN |
| Stare salaciously | LEER |
| Stridex target, informally | ZIT |
| Sulfur dioxide quality | ODOR |
| Swiss Army knife’s many | USES |
| Talks like a tosspot | SLURS |
| Telly network, with ‘the’ | BEEB |
| The Cratchits’ Christmas fowl | GOOSE |
| The FBI’s top 10 | MOSTWANTEDLIST |
| The Florida Keys, e.g | ISLES |
| Threw into the mix | ADDED |
| Uneasy feeling | AGITA |
| Unenthusiastic, as a response | TEPID |
| Unsettled issues | IFS |
| Wide-eyed | AGOG |
| Wing it onstage | ADLIB |
| Workbench 18-Across | VISE |
| World leader who was a KGB agent | PUTIN |
| ___ torch (luau light) | TIKI |