USA Today – Jun 15 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
“A ___ formality!” |
MERE |
“Cut that out!” |
DONT |
“Zounds!” |
OMIGOSH |
“___ the season . . .” |
TIS |
Aetna offering, for short |
HMO |
Alter, as a bill |
AMEND |
Atlas was one |
TITAN |
Black-eyed ___ |
PEAS |
BP merger partner of 1998 |
AMOCO |
Brooding bird |
HEN |
California’s Point ___ National Seashore |
REYES |
Casino card game |
FARO |
Cleveland hoopster, for short |
CAV |
Comic Roseanne |
BARR |
Crimson Tide school, for short |
BAMA |
Dove soap bar shape |
OVAL |
Dressmaker’s aid |
PATTERN |
Feature of some theme parks |
WATERSLIDE |
Fey of “30 Rock” |
TINA |
Forest destroyers |
FIRES |
Fruit of the calabash tree |
GOURD |
G-men or T-men |
AGENTS |
Genesis son |
ABEL |
Government that interferes with personal choice |
NANNYSTATE |
Hair salon sound |
SNIP |
Have ___ (be connected) |
ANIN |
Hay machine |
BALER |
Housefly’s undoing |
SWAT |
In seclusion |
ALONE |
Interior designer Berkus |
NATE |
Israeli diplomat Eban |
ABBA |
Like a dust bowl |
ARID |
Like candy bears |
GUMMY |
Like Siberian winters |
SEVERE |
Lint-collecting navel |
INNIE |
Lone Star State sch |
UTEP |
Mall units |
STORES |
Mansard roof overhang |
EAVE |
Many a Ned Rorem composition |
ARTSONG |
Clues |
Answers |
MBA subj |
ECON |
Minds the bar |
TENDS |
More than dislike |
ABHOR |
Most new drivers |
TEENS |
Muscat’s land |
OMAN |
Neanderthal’s home |
CAVE |
Obsessive picker-upper |
NEATNIK |
On the agenda |
SLATED |
One of two hogged by a road hog |
LANE |
Orchard pests |
APHIDS |
Pastor’s nickname |
REV |
Patriot Nathan |
HALE |
Pink end of a #2 |
ERASER |
Played fiddle, say |
BOWED |
Potbelly, e.g |
BULGE |
Propelled a dinghy |
OARED |
Quick looks |
PEEKS |
Racehorse’s father |
SIRE |
Rodan or Godzilla |
MONSTER |
Russo of “Nightcrawler” |
RENE |
Sandberg in Cooperstown |
RYNE |
Sawyer of fiction |
TOM |
Scandal suffix that follows the first parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
GATE |
Short-term financing arrangement |
BRIDGELOAN |
Source of french fries, informally |
TATER |
Spirited mount |
STEED |
Spruce up, as text |
EDIT |
Steel mill waste |
SLAG |
Superior to |
OVER |
They’re “fed” at curbs |
METERS |
Throw off |
EMIT |
Tie up to a pier |
MOOR |
Trip taker’s clothes neatener |
TRAVELIRON |
Unagi, in sushi bars |
EEL |
University official |
REGENT |
Was decked out in |
WORE |
Weigh station unit |
TON |
Young Scots |
LADS |
___ of Cleves |
ANNE |