USA Today – Feb 12 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
“Boxcars” pair, in craps |
SIXES |
“Don’t ___ and drive” |
TEXT |
“If all ___ fails . . .” |
ELSE |
“Pardon,” slangily |
SCUSE |
2011 U.S. Open winner McIlroy |
RORY |
All Hallows’ ___ (Oct. 31) |
EVE |
Archie or Jughead |
TEEN |
Bishop’s topper |
MITER |
Bocelli delivery |
ARIA |
Centers of activity |
FOCI |
Chaucer pilgrim |
REEVE |
Cherry centers |
STONES |
Directions-seeker’s words |
IMLOST |
Director Preminger |
OTTO |
End of an Italian sonnet |
SESTET |
Expose, at a costume party |
UNMASK |
Fall bloomer |
ASTER |
Fill with rapture |
ELATE |
Four-song records, perhaps |
EPS |
From Jan. 1 until now |
YTD |
Geek Squad member |
TECHIE |
Gets ripe |
AGES |
Grab by the collar, say |
ACCOST |
Greeted the day |
AROSE |
Group in charge (Abbr.) |
MGMT |
Grove unit |
TREE |
Hellenic H’s |
ETAS |
Higher in rank than |
ABOVE |
Home on a farm |
STY |
Ill-bred sorts |
CADS |
Insertion mark |
CARET |
Israel’s Netanyahu, informally |
BIBI |
Like a Black Sabbath concert |
LOUD |
Like an engaged couple |
INLOVE |
Like billiard balls, pre-break |
RACKED |
Like-minded voting group |
BLOC |
Marlee with a 1986 Oscar |
MATLIN |
Mason’s surveying partner |
DIXON |
Member of a rural kick line? |
COUNTRYROCKETTE |
Clues |
Answers |
Merit badge holder |
SASH |
Metal-stamping tools |
DIES |
Moat beast, for short |
CROC |
Modernist’s prefix |
NEO |
Move stealthily |
EDGE |
Movie exec’s veal dinner? |
DIRECTORSCUTLET |
Mowing or raking, e.g |
CHORE |
Much all-you-can-eat fare |
SALAD |
Much interoffice mail |
MEMOS |
Not very much |
ABIT |
Otis Redding’s label |
STAX |
Ovine utterance |
BAA |
Parcel out |
ALLOT |
Place to build |
SITE |
Pub round |
ALES |
RBI or HR |
STAT |
Rod-shaped bacterium |
ECOLI |
Rooney of “Carol” |
MARA |
Sandusky’s lake |
ERIE |
Sauce made with basil |
PESTO |
Scene of a 1979 overthrow |
IRAN |
Schedule opening |
SLOT |
Shock jock Don |
IMUS |
Shortly, to poets |
ANON |
Silent performers |
MIMES |
Skin-and-bones sort |
SCRAG |
Start of a bray |
HEE |
Symbol before a key signature |
CLEF |
Syringe, for short |
HYPO |
U-shaped stringed instruments |
LYRES |
UCLA athletes |
BRUINS |
W.C. Fields persona |
SOT |
Walked nervously |
PACED |
Where “the buck stops” |
HERE |
Woodwind with a conical bore |
OBOE |
Words given under oath |
IDO |
Y-sporting collegian |
ELI |
Young bird minding little brother? |
SITTINGDUCKLING |
___ hall (campus hangout) |
REC |