USA Today – Oct 25 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: AIR, ALTIMA, CLAD, OPERA.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Delta of Venus’ author Anais | NIN |
| ‘Odds ___ . . .’ | ARE |
| ‘Tosca’ or ‘Aida’ | OPERA |
| 10, on a scale of 1 to 10 | IDEAL |
| Await a decision | PEND |
| Awful-smelling | FETID |
| Bandage brand | ACE |
| Battery fluid | ACID |
| Bloat, as one’s abdomen | DISTEND |
| BP gas brand | AMOCO |
| Bring shame to | ABASE |
| By no means 29-Down | ARID |
| Cartel including the UAE | OPEC |
| Character with a descender, perhaps | LOWERCASELETTER |
| Chef’s splatter catcher | APRON |
| Circus Maximus locale | ROME |
| Classic toy wagon brand | RADIOFLYER |
| Decked out | CLAD |
| DeWitt Clinton’s canal | ERIE |
| Dismiss unceremoniously | AXE |
| Driving-range array | TEES |
| Election day lineups | SLATES |
| Far from original | BANAL |
| Fighting tooth and nail | ATIT |
| Flea or fly | PEST |
| Foamy coffee order | LATTE |
| Foot and fathom, for two | UNITS |
| Gasp or wince, e.g | REACT |
| General Bradley | OMAR |
| Green energy option | SOLAR |
| Gulf sultanate | OMAN |
| Hard-to-ignore impulse | URGE |
| Hobby farm dwellers | ANTS |
| Home to about 4.5 billion | ASIA |
| Hook’s aide | SMEE |
| Hosted, as a pageant | EMCEED |
| Housekeeping worker | MAID |
| Hurlers of good-natured insults | ROASTERS |
| In need of a recharge | DEAD |
| Increase, with ‘up’ | AMP |
| It may be pumped or bumped | FIST |
| It may include a dental plan | BENEFITSPACKAGE |
| Like a tropical forest’s climate | RAINY |
| Like an open border, perhaps | Unfenced |
| Like King Minos | CRETAN |
| Like much diet fare, informally | LOFAT |
| Like the center space, in Bingo | FREE |
| Make public | AIR |
| McGregor of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ | EWAN |
| NBA or NFL factoid | STAT |
| Newscast segment | ITEM |
| Nissan sedan | ALTIMA |
| Off one’s rocker | LOCO |
| Part of a crooked deck | MARKEDCARD |
| Pentathlete’s sword | EPEE |
| Place for a throw pillow | SOFA |
| Plenty angry | SORE |
| Pollen holder | SAC |
| Poor dog’s portion, in rhyme | NONE |
| Prom night wheels | LIMO |
| Racetrack boundary | RAIL |
| River past the Sphinx | NILE |
| Rummy cake | BABA |
| Sax great Getz | STAN |
| Share a border with | ABUT |
| Slip occupant | BOAT |
| Sound of a wooden shoe | CLOP |
| Tanning lotion letters | SPF |
| Tennis judge’s call | LET |
| Test-driven cars | DEMOS |
| Unscheduled, so far (Abbr.) | TBA |
| Vaudeville bit | SKIT |
| Visa competitor, for short | AMEX |
| Way out there | AFAR |
| Wine glass feature | STEM |
| With suspicion, as a look | ASKANCE |
| Young kiltie | LAD |
| Zodiac beast | RAM |