USA Today – Dec 22 2022
USA Today – Dec 22 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘Best Thing I Never ___’ (Beyonce song) | HAD |
‘Consequently . . .’ | ANDSO |
‘I’m shocked!’ | GASP |
‘Pitch Perfect’ star Kendrick | ANNA |
‘Send help!’ | SOS |
‘That hits the spot!’ | AAH |
‘The ___ the better’ | SOONER |
‘You might be ___ something!’ | ONTO |
‘___ Mananitas’ | LAS |
‘___ Up to the Plate, Maria Singh’ (2017 novel) | STEP |
Actor Vigoda | ABE |
Add to a huge lead | RUNUPTHESCORE |
Archaeologist’s find | ARTIFACT |
Arm day target | BICEP |
Assistant | AIDE |
Backpacker’s accommodation option | HOSTEL |
Beg | PLEAD |
Bend to make it through a doorway | STOOP |
Beyond impressed | AWED |
Black Friday event | SALE |
Blogger’s contribution | POST |
Bovine bellow | MOO |
Bowling alley part | LANE |
Campfire’s remains | ASHES |
Cast members | ACTORS |
Castle material at the beach | SAND |
Celebration, in French | FETE |
Change with the times | ADAPT |
Chicken ___ salad | CAESAR |
City northwest of Miami | TAMPA |
Cooking fat | LARD |
Costume at a ballet recital | TUTU |
Diary update | ENTRY |
Dojo activity | KARATE |
Employs | USES |
Endure | LAST |
Get ___ of (throw out) | RID |
Give half away, for example | SHARE |
Gives a call | PHONES |
Clues | Answers |
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Gold medal gymnast Sunisa | LEE |
Heartwarming news item | FEELGOODSTORY |
Heterochromia means having different-colored ones | EYES |
Holders of valuables | SAFES |
Indiana’s WNBA team | FEVER |
Ink stain | BLOT |
Like a relic | OLD |
Like this clue’s number | ODD |
Lil ___ X | NAS |
Liquor in Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘We Real Cool’ | GIN |
Make a reference | ALLUDE |
Marching insect | ANT |
Maze runner | LABRAT |
Medals go around them | NECKS |
Name shared by MLB’s first all-brother outfield | ALOU |
Name that’s a letter plus a body part | OLEG |
Not close | FAR |
Part of a mailing address | STATE |
Parts of a to-do list | CHORES |
Picked | CHOSE |
Picks outfits for | STYLES |
Place for Aquaman and SpongeBob | SEA |
Protein in some stir-fry | TOFU |
Psychic’s skill | ESP |
Ready for some shut-eye | SLEEPY |
Response to ‘Am not!’ | ARETOO |
Selection process that might involve a bag | RANDOMDRAWING |
Serving platter | TRAY |
Setting for the early chapters of a biography | HOMETOWN |
Short and to the point | TERSE |
Skeptical brow shapes | ARCHES |
Sombrero or beret | HAT |
Some mahjong tiles | WINDS |
Spoken | ORAL |
Suffix for ‘lemon’ or ‘Gator’ | ADE |
Suppress | STIFLE |
Tequila’s base | AGAVE |
Tirade | RANT |
___-prone skin | ACNE |