USA Today – Sep 14 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: EELS, ENDS, France, INTEL, LADY, ONYX, READY.
Clues | Answers |
‘All set?’ | READY |
‘Blackfish’ beast | ORCA |
‘My turn!’ | IMUP |
‘The Kiss’ sculptor Auguste | RODIN |
Alkali neutralizer | ACID |
Be initiated into | JOIN |
Become wearisome | PALL |
Beginning eagerly | DIVINGIN |
Belles’ men | BEAUS |
Berry in energy drinks | ACAI |
Big name in bananas | DOLE |
Boneless cut | FILET |
Bourne or Bond | SPY |
Brass and bronze, for two | ALLOYS |
Centaur’s foot | HOOF |
Chuck wagon honcho | COOK |
Collection of pixels | IMAGE |
Compact car of 1960-’70 | FORDFALCON |
Concierges’ workplaces | HOTELS |
Crafty deception | GUILE |
Cuisine with spicy noodles | THAI |
Datum in closing credits | ROLE |
Deviled or coddled item | EGG |
Did a jockey’s work | RODE |
Discoverer’s outburst | OHO |
Disney cocker spaniel | LADY |
DIYers’ buys | KITS |
Elbow-to-wrist bone | ULNA |
Flooring option | TILE |
Foolish sort | BOZO |
Foppish dresser | DANDY |
Fresh off the assembly line | NEW |
Gem-shaped flying toy | DIAMONDKITE |
Golden State NFLer | LARAM |
Hard-liner on deficit spending | BUDGETHAWK |
Hole-in-one, on a par 4 | DOUBLEEAGLE |
Homes to cuckoos and loons | NESTS |
Humpty Dumpty’s pre-fall shape | OVAL |
Hustler’s scheme | SCAM |
Indigenous cultures’ paintings, e.g | FOLKART |
Invites to drop by | ASKSOVER |
Ironman watch maker | TIMEX |
Land including part of Kurdistan | IRAN |
Library transaction | LOAN |
Like a wrung-out towel | DAMP |
Loaf pair | ENDS |
Metaphorical sticking place | CRAW |
Mexican figurine mineral | ONYX |
Monastery honcho | ABBOT |
Most trick-or-treaters | KIDS |
Name in machine pistols | UZI |
Name in microprocessors | INTEL |
Not as cuckoo | SANER |
Not at all cool | UNHIP |
Of the flock | LAIC |
Planted, as seed | SOWN |
Porcupine quill feature | BARB |
Pungent condiment with sushi | WASABI |
Reckless boldness | TEMERITY |
Registered as a candidate | FILED |
Regretful RSVPs | NOES |
Rock station staffers | DEEJAYS |
Sailor’s time off | LEAVE |
Shoreline formation | DUNE |
Shows patience | WAITS |
Sign of a sellout | SRO |
Sinuous swimmers | EELS |
Some poisonous shrubs | SUMACS |
Strutting turkeys | TOMS |
Sunny spot for a potted plant | SILL |
Tiki bar garland | LEI |
Tiny falsehoods | FIBS |
Tour de France gear | BIKES |
Trawler’s trail | WAKE |
Turned on the waterworks | WEPT |
Vail conveyances | SKILIFTS |
Vaper’s buy | ECIG |
Yank’s foe | REB |