USA Today – Dec 23 2022
USA Today – Dec 23 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘Better ___ than never!’ | LATE |
‘Doctor Who’ network | BBC |
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-___ Spectacular’ | SLAY |
‘The Catcher in the ___’ | RYE |
‘The ___ Games’ | HUNGER |
‘wow!!!’ | OMG |
‘You may ___ me in the very dirt/But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ (Angelou) | TROD |
A ___ of the tongue | SLIP |
Alley-___ | OOP |
Amal Clooney (___ Alamuddin) | NEE |
Attach with heat | IRONON |
Attention-grabbing whisper | PSST |
Bad thing to end on | SOURNOTE |
Basics | ABCS |
Be dishonest | LIE |
Behinds | REARS |
Bird in the USPS logo | EAGLE |
Bit of good fortune | LUCKYBREAK |
Boxing endings, for short | KOS |
By a whisker | BARELY |
By mouth | ORALLY |
Cancel out | NEGATE |
Chocolaty coffee | MOCHA |
Cuisine known for baba ghanouj | LEBANESE |
Currency in Spain | EURO |
Degradation from regular use | WEARANDTEAR |
Flower on ‘The Bachelorette’ | ROSE |
Followed someone around on the job | SHADOWED |
Game with a bull’s-eye | DARTS |
Gave one’s take | OPINED |
Great time | BLAST |
Grow | INCREASE |
Had some jianbing | ATE |
Hazardous | UNSAFE |
How often some vitamins are taken | ONCEADAY |
However | BUT |
Human mind | PSYCHE |
Ice cream holder | CONE |
K-pop star | IDOL |
Clues | Answers |
---|---|
Labor activist Chavez | CESAR |
Long period of time | ERA |
Long period of time | EON |
Massive | HUGE |
Moms in a coop | HENS |
Nabisco cookie | OREO |
Necessarily involved | ENTAILED |
Nevada Museum of Art city | RENO |
Number that’s ‘moja’ in Swahili | ONE |
NYC arena, for short | MSG |
Off-kilter | ASKEW |
Old West fugitive | OUTLAW |
Patch up | MEND |
Performs like Monaleo | RAPS |
Phrase at the altar | IDO |
Pieces in Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album’ | ESSAYS |
Profound | DEEP |
Relieved exclamation | WHEW |
Resident of the country northeast of Yemen | OMANI |
Romantic rendezvous | TRYST |
Salsa type | MILD |
Sheep’s sound | BAA |
Spicy cookie | GINGERSNAP |
Spinach-loving sailor | POPEYE |
State animal of Utah | ELK |
Steak cut | TBONE |
Stop-motion sheep who lives at Mossy Bottom Farm | SHAUN |
Substantial | HEFTY |
Sudden surge | ONRUSH |
Tennis legend Arthur | ASHE |
Use a machete | CHOP |
Version longer than a theatrical release | EXTENDEDCUT |
Watering can part | SPOUT |
Went blond, for example | DYED |
Wood-splitting tool | AXE |
Writes some software | CODES |
___ and outs | INS |
___ box (Japanese meal) | BENTO |
___ choy (Chinese vegetable) | BOK |