USA Today – Sep 8 2016 Crossword Solution
USA Today – Sep 8 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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“Apollo 13” director Howard | RON |
“Fiddler” of Rome | NERO |
“Life of Pi” director Lee | ANG |
“Woof” equivalent | ARF |
“___ Master’s Voice” | HIS |
“___ we forget” | LEST |
28-Across measure | LITER |
Act part | SCENE |
Align the crosshairs | AIM |
Alumna bio word | NEE |
As yet unscheduled, on a sked | TBA |
Attach, as a ribbon | TIEON |
Barely beats | EDGES |
Be half-asleep | DROWSE |
Before, to bards | ERE |
Begins with enthusiasm | SETSTO |
Berry in smoothies | ACAI |
Blanc who voiced Bugs | MEL |
Boutique fixture | DRESSRACK |
Burlesque bit | SKIT |
Carew in Cooperstown | ROD |
Caribou kin | ELK |
Chore list heading | TODO |
Concerning, in legalese | INRE |
Courtroom figure (Abbr.) | ASSTDA |
Dangerous fly | TSETSE |
Debate topics | ISSUES |
Dictionary notation for “enow” or “erst” | ARCHAIC |
Earthly paradise | EDEN |
Eyeteeth | CANINES |
Fella | BUB |
Fields of expertise | AREAS |
Fizzy drink | SODA |
Flamboyant manner | PANACHE |
Fund, as a professorship | ENDOW |
Get deservedly | EARN |
Get traded, say (and how to get the last parts of 16-, 23- and 49-Across) | SWITCHTEAMS |
Give as a source | CITE |
Grapefruit hunk | SECTION |
Clues | Answers |
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Gulf War missile | SCUD |
Has a bite | EATS |
Hoops great Shaquille | ONEAL |
Hosting a roast, in brief | MCING |
Ill temper | IRE |
Imbiber’s offense, briefly | DUI |
Induce to join, as an argument | DRAWIN |
Jewish deli offerings | KOSHERMEATS |
July 1944 battle site | STLO |
Justice Kagan | ELENA |
Kunta ___ (“Roots” role) | KINTE |
Ladies’ gentlemen | BEAUS |
Legally go after | SUE |
Low man in the choir | BASSO |
Merchant ship officers | SECONDMATES |
Middle X | TAC |
Mud bath site | SPA |
Museum benefactor (Abbr.) | NEA |
Musk of SpaceX | ELON |
Not fulfilled, as needs | UNMET |
NPR newsman Daniel | SCHORR |
Poseidon’s domain | SEA |
Relief from the sun | SHADE |
Rubbed the wrong way | IRRITATED |
Sewing supply | PINS |
Shaving mishap | NICK |
Singles, doubles, etc | HITS |
Small craft propeller | OAR |
Smart-alecky | PERT |
Strong driving force | HEADOFSTEAM |
Timeline divisions | ERAS |
Toupee, slangily | RUG |
Turns, as milk | SOURS |
Unnamed competitor, in ads | BRANDX |
Verdi slave girl | AIDA |
Voice of the iPhone | SIRI |
Warrior princess of TV | XENA |
Way to go | ROUTE |
Whey-faced | ASHEN |