USA Today – Aug 3 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
“Adam Bede” author George |
ELIOT |
“Citizen ___” (Welles movie) |
KANE |
“Gimme a break” chocolate bar |
KITKAT |
“Letters From ___ Jima” |
IWO |
“Life’s a beach” is one |
METAPHOR |
“Right to remain silent” name |
MIRANDA |
“The Rose of ___” |
TRALEE |
“Three Sisters” playwright Chekhov |
ANTON |
“Yesterday!” on a memo |
ASAP |
“___ she blows!” |
THAR |
50-Down rebuke |
ETTU |
Afternoon affair |
TEA |
Alma mater of Bush 41 and 43 |
YALE |
Anti-organized-crime law, for short |
RICO |
Baja money |
PESO |
Best jazz players in the land? |
ALLSTARCATS |
Bidder’s gesture |
NOD |
Boffo review |
RAVE |
Bug-eyed |
AGOG |
Bump into |
MEET |
Chessboard row |
RANK |
Concealed servings of butter? |
HIDDENPATS |
Dance at a luau |
HULA |
Do as instructed |
OBEY |
Domestic cat |
TABBY |
Elephant-eating bird of myth |
ROC |
Elsa of “Born Free,” e.g |
LIONESS |
Emperor with a wall named for him |
HADRIAN |
Enjoyed thoroughly |
ATEUP |
Fateful day for Caesar |
IDES |
Gave the once-over to |
EYED |
Gerber’s eater |
BABY |
Governed by fate |
DESTINED |
Guitar neck attachment |
CAPO |
Half of the chess pieces |
PAWNS |
Hands on deck |
TARS |
Hardly tanned |
PALE |
Hot ___ (mixed drink) |
TODDY |
KFC piece |
WING |
Clues |
Answers |
Like Madame Tussauds figures |
WAXEN |
Load of baloney |
TALE |
Makes goo-goo eyes at |
OGLES |
New Rochelle, N.Y. college |
IONA |
NFL pool action? |
SUNDAYBETS |
One on your side |
ALLY |
Pained expression |
WINCE |
Pedal-operated pair of cymbals |
HIHAT |
Pigskin or horsehide |
BALL |
Places to get knishes |
DELIS |
Places to sled |
HILLS |
Polar covering |
ICECAP |
Presidential advisers’ kitchenware? |
CABINETPOTS |
Promising, as one’s future |
ROSY |
Quinnipiac undertakings |
POLLS |
Racetrack shelters |
STABLES |
Radish or turnip |
ROOT |
Rarity for a lumbering slugger |
TRIPLE |
Reuniongoer, briefly |
ALUM |
River mouth formation |
DELTA |
Sax type |
ALTO |
Semisynthetic fabric |
RAYON |
Sharp, as vision |
ACUTE |
Slack-jawed |
AGAPE |
Subsisted |
LIVED |
Texter’s “Yikes!” |
OMG |
The five of “Hamlet” |
ACTS |
Theme park transport |
TRAM |
Toiling away |
ATIT |
Tracy’s Trueheart |
TESS |
Up to the task |
ABLE |
Utah ski area |
ALTA |
Vardalos or Peeples |
NIA |
Visitor to the vet |
PET |
Wart giver of folklore |
TOAD |
Was in the red |
OWED |
___ Cristo sandwich |
MONTE |
___ out (at the limit) |
MAXED |
___-country (music genre) |
ALT |