USA Today – Dec 21 2022
USA Today – Dec 21 2022
Clues | Answers |
---|---|
‘All bets ___ off!’ | ARE |
‘Almost!’ | CLOSE |
‘Aw, too bad!’ | THATSAPITY |
‘Correct!’ | RIGHTANSWER |
‘Goodness me’ | GOSH |
‘Hmm . . .’ | LETMESEE |
‘Oh, drat!’ | DARNIT |
‘Quantum Leap’ channel | NBC |
‘Que ___ pasando?’ (‘What’s going on?’) | ESTA |
‘The Fresh Prince of ___-Air’ | BEL |
‘___ on a true story’ | BASED |
Actress Salonga | LEA |
Admissions requirement for some grad schools | GRE |
Ahead of the rest | FIRST |
Amphitheater levels | TIERS |
Apple crumble topping | OATS |
Brand of farm machinery | DEERE |
Calc or trig | MATH |
Capital city home to the Pantheon | ROME |
Capital city that gets as little as six hours of sunlight a day in the winter | OSLO |
Color | HUE |
Delivers a speech | ORATES |
Dinner table pad | PLACEMAT |
Drawing stick | CRAYON |
Emotionally distant | ALOOF |
Etching and sculpture, for example | ARTS |
Eyelid bump | STYE |
Felt mouse, for example | CATTOY |
Fourth-year students (Abbr.) | SRS |
Fractions of a euro | CENTS |
General vibe | AURA |
Get 100% on | ACE |
Grab the check | TREAT |
Grain for gimbap | RICE |
Grain storage tower | SILO |
Griffin or kraken | BEAST |
Hallucinogenic drug | LSD |
High school English class, for short | APLIT |
Hmong Heritage Month (Abbr.) | APR |
Clues | Answers |
---|---|
Honey makers | BEES |
Hotel units (Abbr.) | RMS |
Key above Caps Lock | TAB |
Like flushed cheeks | ROSY |
Like some frilly bras | LACY |
Like some phones and hair dryers | CORDED |
Low-budget prefix | ECONO |
Minji stew veggie | PEA |
Miserable | SAD |
NYC neighborhood | HARLEM |
Ocean Vuong specialty | POETRY |
On a spending ___ | SPREE |
Over with | DONE |
Prefix for ‘romantic’ | ALLO |
Put to the ___ | TEST |
Removed all evidence | LEFTNOTRACE |
Rowing stick | OAR |
Sandwiches from Puebla | CEMITAS |
Securities involved in insider trading | STOCKS |
Sentimental weakness | SOFTSPOT |
Shopping basket units | ITEMS |
Singer ___ Adu | SADE |
Softest mineral | TALC |
Soup scoopers | LADLES |
Starchy tubers | YAMS |
State park diagram | MAP |
State that borders three seas | ALASKA |
Super simple | EASY |
Supporters (but not members) of the LGBTQ community | STRAIGHTALLIES |
Sweepstakes submission | ENTRY |
Tax org | IRS |
Tent made from animal hides | TIPI |
Waterbird that mates for life | SWAN |
___ Battles (Roblox game with gloves) | SLAP |
___ kwon do | TAE |
___ out (barely get) | EKE |
___ pants | CAPRI |
___, rinse, repeat | LATHER |
___-El (Superman’s birth name) | KAL |