USA Today – May 9 2023 Crossword Answers
USA Today – May 9 2023
Clues | Answers |
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‘Body Party’ singer | CIARA |
‘Gotta be faster than that!’ | TOOSLOW |
‘Heck yeah!’ | WOO |
‘It’s Janet . . . Miss Jackson if you’re ___’ | NASTY |
‘Let’s put it to the ___’ | TEST |
‘Sea’-soning | SALT |
‘That’s not exactly breaking news’ | IMAWARE |
‘___ Miserables’ | LES |
Absorb | SOAKUP |
Accompany | ESCORT |
Arousing art | EROTICA |
Ballet skirts | TUTUS |
Bighorn’s bellow | BAA |
Birthplace of bounce music | NEWORLEANS |
Bonfire residue | ASH |
City hidden in the answer to 1-Down | OSLO |
Coalition that advocates against Native mascots in sports | NOTINOURHONOR |
Country that borders Thailand | LAOS |
Dangerous vapors | FUMES |
Delicious scent | AROMA |
Draped South Asian garment | SARI |
Dryly funny | WRY |
Edible pockets | PITAS |
Elitists | SNOBS |
Fannie ___ Hamer | LOU |
Get closer to | GONEAR |
Have a meal | EAT |
Heavy produce | MELONS |
Highway section | LANE |
Ideal starting hand in poker | ACES |
Immediately | ASAP |
Inform | TELL |
Joy or excitement | EMOTION |
Last possible moment | NICKOFTIME |
Like a wool sweater that feels like a steel wool sweater | ITCHY |
Like saying ‘Bless you’ | POLITE |
Clues | Answers |
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Makes a scornful sound | SCOFFS |
Measures of gold purity | KARATS |
Meat preservation method | CURING |
Name that means ‘lion’ | LEON |
Not scheduled to work | OFF |
Out of style | PASSE |
Painter Kahlo | FRIDA |
Part of wpm or mph | PER |
Prefix meaning ‘bad’ | MAL |
Prefix similar to ‘super-‘ | ULTRA |
Radio, TV, etc | MEDIA |
Reason for saying ‘Bless you’ | SNEEZE |
Reduces to a pulp | MASHES |
Result of addition | SUM |
Rival of Harvard | YALE |
Section of a history timeline | ERA |
Sent to a different team | TRADED |
Short comedy piece | SKIT |
Signer of a corporate apology | CEO |
Skin design, for short | TAT |
Small amounts | TADS |
Snakelike sea creatures | EELS |
Some rodents | RATS |
Songs | TUNES |
Sound-based detection system | SONAR |
Spanish for ‘this’ | ESTO |
Stays on the bench | SITS |
Stratosphere layer protected by the Montreal Protocol | OZONE |
The ___ Carta | MAGNA |
They’re like scissors but bigger | SHEARS |
Title job for Thomas Wazhashk in a 2020 Louise Erdrich novel | NIGHTWATCHMAN |
Two of them merging would form a sextet | TRIOS |
Unholy act | SIN |
Wallet items | IDS |
___ butter lotion | SHEA |
___ flaw | FATAL |