USA Today – Sep 25 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: BRASS, EDNA, STAGE, STAY.
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No longer in force | VOID |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 |