USA Today – Jul 22 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: LEND, LODE, MADAME, MANATEE, NERD, OREO, Peter Pan, Special Forces.
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Peter Pan’ beast, for short |
CROC |
| ‘Shepherd Moons’ New Ager |
ENYA |
| ‘The Good Dinosaur’ dinosaur |
ARLO |
| 2016 prize for Bob Dylan |
NOBEL |
| Batman and Robin e.g |
DUO |
| Bornean ape, briefly |
ORANG |
| Bottomless pit |
ABYSS |
| Boxcar capacity units |
TONS |
| Broadway bombs |
FLOPS |
| Business school subj |
ECON |
| Campus honchos |
DEANS |
| Carter of ‘Ain’t Misbehavin” |
NELL |
| Catherine the Great, notably |
EMPRESS |
| Chippendales show, e.g |
REVUE |
| Clearly delineated |
DEFINED |
| Closer’s stat |
ERA |
| Convention vote |
BALLOT |
| Cookie deep-fried at fairs |
OREO |
| Couldn’t stand |
LOATHED |
| Covered, like M&M’s |
COATED |
| Creative pursuits |
ARTS |
| Creators of artificial lakes |
DAMS |
| Delete key neighbor |
END |
| Drink like a fish |
TOPE |
| Dugong relative |
MANATEE |
| Feudal lord |
LIEGE |
| Fires off |
SENDS |
| Fit together, as matryoshka dolls |
NEST |
| Forty-niner’s strike |
LODE |
| Geometry calculation |
AREA |
| Gift-tag word |
FROM |
| H&R Block hiree |
CPA |
| Half the ‘Monday, Monday’ singing group |
MAMAS |
| Headey of ‘Game of Thrones’ |
LENA |
| Hoopster or gridder |
ATHLETE |
| House sporting Greek letters, for short |
FRAT |
| Ill-kept confidence |
OPENSECRET |
| In ___ (unborn) |
UTERO |
| Jack who shunned fat |
SPRAT |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Jersey or Guernsey |
ISLE |
| Jimmy of Led Zeppelin |
PAGE |
| Knocked the socks off |
AWED |
| Kudrow of ‘Web Therapy’ |
LISA |
| Laura of ‘Wild’ |
DERN |
| LDS part |
DAY |
| Like beer in many six-packs |
BOTTLED |
| Like X-rated jokes |
DIRTY |
| Loser to Clinton in 1996 |
DOLE |
| Lunch or brunch |
MEAL |
| Majority of an unequal split |
LARGERHALF |
| Make, as a putt |
SINK |
| Maker of WorkForce printers |
EPSON |
| Milieux for some buggies |
DUNES |
| Moon buggy, briefly |
LEM |
| Novelty musical act |
ONEMANBAND |
| Object of a scout’s search |
TALENT |
| Offer, as support |
LEND |
| Org. in ‘Homeland’ |
CIA |
| Oxidizes, in a way |
RUSTS |
| Paperless publications |
EBOOKS |
| Place for Easy-Off |
OVEN |
| Seance leader |
MEDIUM |
| Shoe brand named for a cat |
PUMA |
| Situation with no alternatives |
ONLYCHOICE |
| Special Forces cap |
BERET |
| Sport fencing implement |
EPEE |
| Sticking point, in an idiom |
CRAW |
| Succumb to gravity |
SAG |
| Sweeney played by Johnny Depp |
TODD |
| Teasdale of poetry |
SARA |
| Techie, stereotypically |
NERD |
| Thieves’ hangouts |
DENS |
| Title for Tussaud |
MADAME |
| Underworld organizations |
MOBS |
| Urban wall art, perhaps |
MURAL |
| Usher’s concern |
SEATING |
| Woad and henna |
DYES |
| Word before soap or sell |
SOFT |