USA Today – Jun 29 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: AAH, COYLY, EIDER, MAYER, MEANSTREAK, MEAT, MLB, SPAS.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘American Reunion’ actress | MENASUVARI |
| ‘Clay’ to ‘Ali,’ e.g., and a hint to 17-Across and 11- and 28-Down | NAMECHANGE |
| ‘Odds ___ . . .’ | ARE |
| ‘That feels good!’ | AAH |
| ‘To my dismay . . .’ | SADLY |
| 12-Down detail, for short | SPEC |
| An honor card in bridge | TEN |
| Apt to cause a brain freeze | COLD |
| Area for fervent worshippers | AMENCORNER |
| Assent to the captain | AYE |
| Builder’s design | PLAN |
| Cart-pulling team | OXEN |
| Causes for overtime | TIES |
| Causing chills | EERIE |
| Civic obligation | DUTY |
| Counterfeiters’ foes, for short | TMEN |
| Creepy glances | LEERS |
| Cruiser drivers | COPS |
| Declare as ‘fake news’ | DENY |
| Era-spanning tale | SAGA |
| Event for motorheads | CARSHOW |
| Far from lethargic | SPRY |
| Flavor of much green candy | LIME |
| Fry cooks’ utensils | PANS |
| Gave the once-over to | EYED |
| Great Sphinx locale | GIZA |
| Growth in an abandoned lot | WEEDS |
| Improvising twosome’s tune | JAZZDUET |
| In a kittenish way | COYLY |
| Instrument on a Guinness label | HARP |
| Leave slack-jawed | AWE |
| Lessens one’s pace | SLOWS |
| Like a fleabag | SEEDY |
| Like buttery pie crust | FLAKY |
| Like much good steak | AGED |
| Lizard of the tropics | IGUANA |
| Longest human bones | FEMURS |
| Malicious tendency | MEANSTREAK |
| Many an OPEC minister | ARAB |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Medical breakthroughs | CURES |
| Medically induced state, perhaps | COMA |
| MLB honcho | OWNER |
| Mockumentary, e.g | SATIRE |
| Much of a paleo diet | MEAT |
| Nieces, nephews et al | KIN |
| Opera great Enrico | CARUSO |
| Oscar ___ (Wienermobile company) | MAYER |
| Parking meter’s place | CURB |
| Parts of military positions | SECTORS |
| Peanut and coconut products | OILS |
| Perfume applications | SPRITZES |
| Petty quarrel | SPAT |
| Piglike forest dweller | TAPIR |
| Pillow filling, perhaps | EIDER |
| Places for mud baths | SPAS |
| Places to wallow | STIES |
| Poses one of the five W’s | ASKS |
| Provoke playfully | TEASE |
| Puts in the pokey | JAILS |
| Rascally tots | IMPS |
| Rebellious art genre | DADA |
| Reduce to ribbons | SHRED |
| Released, as a stamp | ISSUED |
| Rice who writes of vampires | ANNE |
| Shirts at boardwalk shops | TEES |
| Speaks boastfully of | VAUNTS |
| Sprinkler of magic dust | PIXIE |
| Stamps and sends | MAILS |
| Take the laurels | WIN |
| They’re cast by pros | YESVOTES |
| Towel pronoun | HERS |
| Try for a 4-Down | VIE |
| Unanticipated hang-up | SNAG |
| Uncouth sorts | APES |
| Unguarded, as a receiver | OPEN |
| Used hand signals | MOTIONED |
| Vindictive Tyler Perry character | MADEA |
| Ward with two Emmys | SELA |