USA Today – Sep 26 2018
Published in USA Today Crossword. Tags: BLAH, Michael Jackson, ODDS, RINSE.
Clues | Answers |
‘Let’s talk’ note | SEEME |
‘You just missed!’ | ALMOST |
7 or 10, in a 7-10 split | PIN |
Added whipped cream to, say | TOPPED |
Aquatic Disney princess | ARIEL |
Batting practice structure | CAGE |
Be the first act | OPEN |
Blood-typing word (Abbr.) | NEG |
Bonfire glower | EMBER |
Brownish songbird | WREN |
Car wash cycle | RINSE |
Cher or Beyonce, e.g | DIVA |
Coffeehouse recitation | POEM |
Coils in sheds | HOSES |
Comply with | OBEY |
Corpulent ‘South Park’ kid | ERIC |
Crop up | OCCUR |
Device for an Apple Pencil | IPAD |
Do penance | ATONE |
Edinburgh natives | SCOTS |
Effortless manner | EASE |
Fall bloom | ASTER |
Great Fire of Rome emperor | NERO |
Hang around | STAY |
Head for a treehouse | CLIMB |
Heavy lifter | CRANE |
Iced tea garnish | LEMONWEDGE |
In charge of | OVER |
Initials at 20-Across | SRO |
Israel, biblically | ZION |
Jared of ‘Suicide Squad’ | LETO |
Lacking pizzazz | BLAH |
Leave slack-jawed | AMAZE |
Like a curious dog’s head | ATILT |
Liquid-Plumr target | DRAINCLOG |
Locker room emanation | ODOR |
Make good on | REPAY |
Many a Woodstock hairdo | AFRO |
Michael Jackson’s ‘kingdom’ | POP |
Military buffs’ interests | WARS |
Monica with a racket | SELES |
Monthly Oil Market Report issuer | OPEC |
Movie studio events | RELEASES |
Neatnik’s opposite | SLOB |
Not as assertive | MEEKER |
Off weeks, in football | BYES |
On one’s guard | ALERT |
Parks who sparked a boycott | ROSA |
Patronize a deli | EAT |
Place for a perm | SALON |
Pointed a finger at | BLAMED |
Potentially ruinous | DIRE |
Prell competitor | PERT |
Protective atmospheric layer | OZONE |
Puzzle on a place mat, perhaps | MAZE |
Pyramids’ high points | APEXES |
Racetrack barrier | RAIL |
Rod in a globe | AXIS |
Run off to the J.P | ELOPE |
Sales slip figure | TAX |
Sam of Sam’s Club | WALTON |
Setting of a Bret Harte tale | POKERFLAT |
Skating rink shape | OVAL |
Slow-pitch pitches | LOBS |
Some battery terminals | ANODES |
Strait of Hormuz land | OMAN |
Superlatively wise | SAGEST |
Takes time off | RESTS |
The Flintstones’ pet | DINO |
They sense scents | NOSES |
Ticket scalpers’ hopes | SELLOUTS |
Tip sheet figures | ODDS |
Tom, Dick or Harry | NAME |
Toyota’s upscale line | LEXUS |
Traits of many 14-Acrosses | EGOS |
Vodka/ginger beer drink | MOSCOWMULE |
Wilson of ‘Starsky and Hutch’ | OWEN |
Yield to wanderlust | ROVE |