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 |