USA Today – Jul 5 2021 Crossword solution+
USA Today – Jul 5 2021
Clues | Answers |
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‘Finally!’ | ATLAST |
‘Hey now’ | CMON |
‘I’d like to say ___ words . . .’ | AFEW |
‘SportsCenter’ channel | ESPN |
‘We’ve only just ___’ | BEGUN |
‘What’s ___ for me?’ | INIT |
‘Will do!’ | ONIT |
5K or marathon | RACE |
Arid | DRY |
Blackfire genre | PUNK |
Blue-green shade | AQUA |
Body of water separated from a sea | LAGOON |
Bugs constantly | NAGS |
Capital of Iran | TEHRAN |
Characteristics | ASPECTS |
Cheese in a Greek salad | FETA |
Cherry part | STEM |
Clothing | GARB |
Community orgs. with youth programs | YMCAS |
Dawn | SUNUP |
Digestive ___ | TRACT |
Dine | EAT |
Doily or lingerie material | LACE |
DVD precursor | VHS |
Extremely dark | PITCHBLACK |
Flaws in stockings | RUNS |
Give off | EMIT |
Homophone of ‘sign’ | SINE |
Hurt | HARM |
Ice cream shop tool | SCOOP |
Insect that sounds like a letter | BEE |
Instructions part | STEP |
Jump at a loud noise, for example | REACT |
Kendrick Lamar track about coming home | MOMMA |
Key verb in a risotto recipe | STIR |
Lead-in to ‘buds’ or ‘muffs’ | EAR |
Letters before a pen name | AKA |
Like an international superstar | WORLDFAMOUS |
Like Machu Picchu | INCAN |
Clues | Answers |
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Like peanut brittle | NUTTY |
Main ingredient in congee | RICE |
Makes small improvements to | REFINES |
Many ‘Sister Act’ characters | NUNS |
Mistake | ERROR |
More real | TRUER |
Motivating monologues | PEPTALKS |
Name that’s 16-Across minus a letter | ARI |
One-up | TOP |
Operatic solo | ARIA |
Perseverance Rover org | NASA |
Piper who picked a peck of pickled peppers, in a tongue twister | PETER |
Playtime in school | RECESS |
Pop-up windows, often | ADS |
Prefix for ‘system’ | ECO |
Prepare in the oven | BAKE |
Pretends to sing along | LIPSYNCS |
Quenches | SATES |
Relatives of ostriches | EMUS |
Restrict | LIMIT |
Sanchez of the Black Arts Movement | SONIA |
Satisfying supper, for example | SQUAREMEAL |
Silly | INANE |
Social ___ (expected behaviors) | NORMS |
Standard of measurement | UNIT |
Synonym for ‘trash’ in the phrase ‘trash talk’ | SMACK |
T. rex or ankylosaurus, for short | DINO |
Tennis match part | SET |
Test for doctors-to-be | MCAT |
Test that measures brain activity | EEG |
The A in UAE | ARAB |
They gather before a big rain | STORMCLOUDS |
Verb that sounds like a letter | ARE |
Wang or Bradley | VERA |
Wrestling surface | MAT |
Young lady | GAL |
___ Aviv | TEL |
___ Inch Nails | NINE |
___ reel (actor’s compilation) | DEMO |