USA Today – Nov 24 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
2016 Olympics site, for short |
RIO |
24-karat |
PURE |
Anita who sang with Gene Krupa |
ODAY |
Apple pie maker’s utensil |
CORER |
Area covered with decomposing leaves and branches |
FORESTFLOOR |
Attacked by jellyfish |
STUNG |
Bird at 9-Down |
OWL |
Bit of parsley |
SPRIG |
Brief tussle |
SETTO |
California roll, e.g |
SUSHI |
Certain underclassman, for short |
SOPH |
Coffee or vanilla |
BEAN |
Coffee variety |
ARABICA |
Common pay period |
WEEK |
Corleone patriarch |
VITO |
Covered with 29-Down |
SPANGLED |
Cud chewer |
COW |
Cyberspace “I think” |
IMO |
Does in, mob-style |
OFFS |
Dunaway of “Network” |
FAYE |
Early Jesse Jackson hairdo |
AFRO |
Ella Fitzgerald specialty |
SCAT |
FDR successor |
HST |
Fleet-footed Aussie avians |
EMUS |
Gin or bourbon c*cktail |
LIMERICKEY |
Goya’s “The Duchess of ___” |
ALBA |
Greet from a distance |
WAVEAT |
Grouchy Muppet |
OSCAR |
Gumbo vegetable |
OKRA |
Harry Potter’s school |
HOGWARTS |
Horse with some white hairs |
ROAN |
Hunk of bacon |
SLAB |
In the cooler |
ONICE |
Informal, as conversation |
BREEZY |
Is afflicted with |
HAS |
Italian-American restaurant chain |
OLIVEGARDEN |
Joan who sang at Woodstock |
BAEZ |
Judge’s attention-getter |
GAVEL |
Lecher’s look |
LEER |
Clues |
Answers |
Like most early TV |
LIVE |
Like watches with hands |
ANALOG |
London pollution problem |
PEASOUPFOG |
Make holy |
BLESS |
Many Shelley poems |
ODES |
Memory problem |
LAPSE |
Milky Way units |
STARS |
Miner’s strike |
LODE |
Mushroom’s reproductive cell |
SPORE |
Ness or Lomond |
LOCH |
No longer dozing |
AWAKE |
Off-the-wall effect |
ECHO |
Old stringed instrument |
LYRE |
On the links |
GOLFING |
Palm yield |
DATE |
Period when forging began |
IRONAGE |
Place for a BLT |
DINER |
Plays for a sap |
USES |
Poland Spring competitor |
EVIAN |
Port of southern Italy |
SALERNO |
Road reversals, slangily |
UEYS |
Rolling ___ (wealthy) |
INIT |
Sign on a pet-unfriendly motel |
NODOGS |
Some roll call votes |
AYES |
Stated further |
ADDED |
Taylor of Mayberry |
ANDY |
Think the world of |
ADORE |
Three-time foe of Frazier |
ALI |
Top Untouchable |
NESS |
Trains like 37-Across |
SPARS |
Umlaut’s two |
DOTS |
What an “X” may mark |
SPOT |
Wood-shaping tool |
LATHE |
X-rated literature |
SMUT |
Yogi or Smokey |
BEAR |
Zilch |
NADA |
___ on (be overfond of) |
DOTE |
___-fatty acid |
TRANS |
___-Magnon |
CRO |