USA Today – Dec 24 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: AARON, COUP, POSSIBLE, STIR.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Ballet Rehearsal’ painter Edgar | DEGAS |
| ‘Chopped’ utensil | PAN |
| ‘Copperhead Road’ singer Steve | EARLE |
| ‘Cross my heart!’ | NOLIE |
| ‘Gotcha!’ | AHA |
| ‘Jude the Obscure’ novelist | THOMASHARDY |
| ‘Orange’ tea that’s really black | PEKOE |
| ‘Pygmalion’ playwright | SHAW |
| ‘Sounds good’ | OKAY |
| Add lace to, say | ADORN |
| Add zip to | ENLIVEN |
| Alan of ‘The Longest Ride’ | ALDA |
| American hero with a famous regret | NATHANHALE |
| Ammunition maker | ARSENAL |
| ASAP part | POSSIBLE |
| Bother persistently | NAGAT |
| Bull’s-eye piercer | DART |
| Cabalists’ scheme | COUP |
| Cancel out | NEGATE |
| Chain offering Belgian waffles | IHOP |
| Chef’s measure | TEASPOON |
| Clod buster | HOE |
| Diary item | ENTRY |
| Draws the short straw | LOSES |
| Eel in a punned Dean Martin song title | MORAY |
| Features of some antique bathtubs | FEET |
| Flag flapper | GUST |
| Flyer drawn to flames | MOTH |
| Fred, to Ebenezer Scrooge | NEPHEW |
| Give away, as a secret | LETON |
| Goat’s antithesis, in sports | HERO |
| Got shorter | SHRANK |
| Gothic novel pioneer Radcliffe | ANN |
| Hothead’s emotion | IRE |
| In search of | AFTER |
| Jackrabbit, actually | HARE |
| Kent State’s state | OHIO |
| Lasting emotional mark | SCAR |
| Like a nursery rhyme cupboard | BARE |
| Like much of Arizona’s climate | ARID |
| Like the Grinch | MEAN |
| Listen to Mom and Dad | OBEY |
| Literary governess Jane | EYRE |
| Long ‘o,’ e.g | VOWELSOUND |
| Medical drama locales, for short | ERS |
| Message from a sitcom sponsor | TVAD |
| Minute Rice direction | STIR |
| Mobile app that keeps you mobile | UBER |
| Nutrition label measure | GRAM |
| Org. opposed to fur farming | PETA |
| Packers quarterback Rodgers | AARON |
| Parts of a fight card | BOUTS |
| Parts of clown costumes | REDNOSES |
| Pay, with ‘up’ | PONY |
| Place for lattes and free Wi-Fi | CAFE |
| Place to hang a hat, perhaps | DOORKNOB |
| Polytheist, to early Christians | PAGAN |
| Pop group named for its members’ initials | ABBA |
| Prim and proper | PRISSY |
| Range above tenor | ALTO |
| Rarity in a 58-Across climate | RAIN |
| Reaction caused by a tickly throat | COUGHINGFIT |
| Reason to cram | TEST |
| Reason to use Febreze | ODOR |
| Right around the corner | NEAR |
| Sci-fi movie extras | ETS |
| Showed respect, in a way | STOOD |
| Sierra Nevada resort, for short | TAHOE |
| St. Patrick’s section | NAVE |
| Structure with water turbines | DAM |
| Stuff to excess | SATE |
| The devil’s preferred fashion label? | PRADA |
| Time for a work break, perhaps | NOON |
| Totally lose it | SNAP |
| Trim, as expenses | PARE |
| Vessel in an angiogram | AORTA |
| Voicemail prompt | TONE |
| Weather map extremes | LOWS |