USA Today – Jul 23 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: ACHE, ACNE, AIDA, IMAC, IOWA, NOR, OCEANS.
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Bringing up the rear . . .’ |
LASTLY |
| ‘Get outta my sight!’ |
SCRAM |
| ‘I fully agree,’ slangily |
TOTES |
| ‘To clarify . . .’ |
IMEAN |
| ‘___ 8’ (2018 heist comedy) |
OCEANS |
| Admit for free |
COMP |
| Adopt, as an alias |
ASSUME |
| Appetite-whetting stimulus |
AROMA |
| Apple on many a desk |
IMAC |
| Apply blacktop to |
PAVE |
| Arctic conveyance |
SLED |
| Bake-off fixture |
OVEN |
| Banded mineral |
AGATE |
| Barnyard layers |
HENS |
| Bills in liar’s poker |
ONES |
| Blender sounds |
WHIRS |
| Builder’s backing strip |
LATH |
| Cinnabar, to mercury |
ORE |
| City near Mauna Kea |
HILO |
| Clusters of bushes |
CLUMPS |
| Colorful parrot |
MACAW |
| Crimson Tide, informally |
BAMA |
| Desert Storm ally |
OMAN |
| Dial-up access need, once |
MODEM |
| Doorman’s invitation |
ENTER |
| Either of two on some knives |
EDGE |
| Every hurricane gets one |
NAME |
| Fish-and-chips fish |
COD |
| Fish-fowl connector |
NOR |
| Fleeced females |
EWES |
| Gaming console since 2001 |
XBOX |
| Give a donation to |
AID |
| Go toe-to-toe |
VIE |
| Got a glimpse of |
SAW |
| Harshest punishment allowable |
MAXIMUMSENTENCE |
| Impersonate effectively |
PASSFOR |
| In need of patching |
TORN |
| Invigorating drink |
TONIC |
| It’s mopped on muggy days |
BROW |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Language on all current U.S. coins |
LATIN |
| Largish combo |
NONET |
| Legendary Loch |
NESS |
| Like choral works |
SUNG |
| Lyrical Gershwin |
IRA |
| Malleable metal |
LEAD |
| Millennials’ parents, casually |
XERS |
| Motion opposer |
ANTI |
| No spring chicken |
OLD |
| Only state name beginning with two vowels |
IOWA |
| Opera with the King of Egypt |
AIDA |
| Our portliest president |
TAFT |
| Palmist’s prediction |
DESTINY |
| Part of an epic poem |
CANTO |
| Poker face |
BLANKEXPRESSION |
| Produces, as dividends |
EARNS |
| Profit-and-loss report |
INCOMESTATEMENT |
| Prom night woe |
ACNE |
| Rapidly, poetically |
APACE |
| Reason to see the dentist |
ACHE |
| Rob of ‘90210’ |
ESTES |
| Sasha, to Malia, informally |
SIS |
| Sends to the pokey |
JAILS |
| Serpent’s place, in Genesis |
EDEN |
| Sleep clinic topic |
APNEA |
| Snow cone makeup |
ICE |
| Strike a bodybuilder’s pose |
FLEX |
| Talk fresh to |
SASS |
| Tender of 66-Across or 7-Down |
FARMER |
| Texter’s ‘Holy cow!’ |
OMG |
| The Hulk’s emotion |
ANGER |
| The opposition |
THEM |
| Tight-fisted types |
PIKERS |
| Traveled like a slow-pitch softball |
ARCED |
| Tuning fork’s output |
TONE |
| Two octaves, for some vocalists |
RANGE |
| Water-loving mammal |
OTTER |
| Weasel out of |
EVADE |
| Word after traffic or printer |
JAM |