USA Today – Sep 25 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: BRASS, EDNA, STAGE, STAY.
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| Clues | Answers |
| ‘A Book of Nonsense’ author Edward | LEAR |
| ‘Foxfire’ author Anya | SETON |
| ‘Giant’ author Ferber | EDNA |
| ‘Hello’ Grammy winner | ADELE |
| ‘High Hopes’ lyricist Sammy | CAHN |
| ‘My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’ soundalike | GODSAVETHEQUEEN |
| ‘Paper or plastic?’ item | BAG |
| ‘Push-up’ garment | BRA |
| ‘The Thinker’ sculptor | RODIN |
| ‘___ was I ere . . .’ | ABLE |
| 2015 nuke deal nation | IRAN |
| Amazon Prime Air vehicle | DELIVERYDRONE |
| App purchaser | USER |
| Billie Jean King Center org | USTA |
| Body ink, slangily | TAT |
| Closet eater’s supply | STASH |
| Collar stiffener | STAY |
| Coloratura’s solo | ARIA |
| Creche trio | MAGI |
| Dead duck | GONER |
| Did a 10K | RAN |
| Didn’t go on | ENDED |
| Didn’t keep mum | TOLD |
| Disney queen voiced by Idina Menzel | ELSA |
| Dubbed one’s title | SIR |
| Dunkin’ Donuts stack | LIDS |
| Dyed-in-the-wool | HARDCORE |
| Early semi-automatic pistol | LUGER |
| Emerald Isle, poetically | ERIN |
| First piece of evidence | EXHIBITA |
| Former Lacoste partner | IZOD |
| Haggis eater, most likely | SCOT |
| Hairdo stiffener | GEL |
| Half-pint | RUNT |
| Hamelin pest | RAT |
| Heal, as a broken bone | KNIT |
| High jumper’s hurdle | BAR |
| Jared of ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ | LETO |
| Kazan who directed Brando | ELIA |
| Laws, informally | REGS |
| Leave at the altar | JILT |
| Legalese adverb | HEREIN |
| Letter-shaped fastener | UBOLT |
| Like a rainforest | LUSH |
| Many a Volvo owner | SWEDE |
| More titanic | HUGER |
| Mover’s rental | VAN |
| No longer in force | VOID |
| Nut-yielding tree | BEECH |
| Old West transport | STAGE |
| One capable of great feats | MIRACLEWORKER |
| One in a tub | BATHER |
| One of a haiku’s three | LINE |
| One of the Brontes | ANNE |
| Outburst from Homer | DOH |
| Palestinian area | GAZA |
| Part of a bus. address, perhaps | POBOX |
| Pessimist’s word | CANT |
| Pitcher deGrom | JACOB |
| Place to get pampered | SPA |
| Portfolio part, briefly | IRA |
| Prefix with fuel or hazard | BIO |
| Privy to | INON |
| River of Leeds | AIRE |
| Roadie’s burden | GEAR |
| School since 1440 | ETON |
| Shiite’s deity | ALLAH |
| Shop jargon | LINGO |
| Shouting matches | QUARRELS |
| Sphinx, mostly | LION |
| Spiff up the decor of | REDO |
| They may be stroked or bruised | EGOS |
| Trumpets and tubas, e.g | BRASS |
| Urban fleet member | CAB |
| Vessel to the heart | VENACAVA |
| Virus named for a river | EBOLA |
| Word of submission | UNCLE |
| World Cup score | GOAL |