USA Today Answers November 19, 2023
Author: by Brooke Husic %26 Matthew Stock
Across
| Doohickey | GIZMO |
| Lady | GAL |
| Amount of MSG (Abbr.) | TSP |
| Atlantic or Indian | OCEAN |
| Early opportunity to get concert tickets | PRESALE |
| Muppet named for a piece of science glassware | BEAKER |
| Team’s strategy | GAMEPLAN |
| Not busy | IDLE |
| Native Numic speakers | UTE |
| Artist Carrie Mae ___ | WEEMS |
| Disney hero who cuts her hair with a sword | MULAN |
| Young man | LAD |
| Eco-friendly power source | GREENENERGY |
| ___ and Fox Nation | SAC |
| Large-scale | MACRO |
| Chafe | RUB |
| Achy | SORE |
| Way off in the distance | AFAR |
| Palm tree or rosebush | PLANT |
| Asked earnestly | PLED |
| “Doing my best!” | ITRY |
| Spicy | HOT |
| Dress shape similar to fit and flare | ALINE |
| Trippy drug | LSD |
| Cultural identity for some North Americans | MEXICANIDAD |
| Church bench | PEW |
| “. . . guess that’s a bad idea” | ORNOT |
| Tutu, for one | SKIRT |
| Manhattan-based newspaper (Abbr.) | NYT |
| ___ it (improvise) | WING |
| Identity represented by a gold flag with a purple circle | INTERSEX |
| Corkscrew shape | SPIRAL |
| “All bangers, ___ ” (album endorsement) | NOSKIPS |
| Oklahoma people aka the Wazhazhe | OSAGE |
| Pigpen | STY |
| Purring animal | CAT |
| On edge | TENSE |
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| Mongolian desert | GOBI |
| Like some summer coffee orders | ICED |
| Verve | ZEAL |
| Have a good time | MAKEMERRY |
| Minimum number of players needed for a game of Everdell | ONE |
| Stat that might be inflated by AP classes, for short | GPA |
| Branch | ARM |
| Wiggle room | LEEWAY |
| Story | TALE |
| Close loudly | SLAM |
| Grading tools | PENS |
| Went fast | SPED |
| Do a queen’s job | RULE |
| Cohort just older than millennials | GENERATIONX |
| Shade similar to khaki | TAN |
| 5-Down, in Spanish | UNO |
| Pride letters | LGBT |
| Google service with an inbox | GMAIL |
| Simple boats | RAFTS |
| Paperless “get well” message, e.g. | ECARD |
| Train for a marathon | RUN |
| ___, liquid, gas | SOLID |
| Large concert venue | ARENA |
| Relinquished | CEDED |
| App used to manage shared expenses | SPLITWISE |
| “That was close!” | PHEW |
| Fishy bagel topping | LOX |
| “Gonna be ___ from me” | ANO |
| Like grams, meters and liters | METRIC |
| React to a book’s ending, perhaps | CRY |
| Industrious insects | ANTS |
| Program for daycare graduates, for short | PREK |
| Moral wrongs | SINS |
| Shoelace securer | KNOT |
| Teeny | ITSY |
| Country that anagrams to a weather forecast | IRAN |
| Pesters | NAGS |
| Jubilation | GLEE |
| Aromatherapy place | SPA |
| Winter time zone in CT | EST |
| Weed | POT |
