USA Today Crossword Clues and Answers February 02, 2024

Author: by Brooke Husic

Across

Clues and Answers

Great Salt Lake’s state UTAH
Car that might have mood lighting LIMO
Theater employee USHER
Pleasant NICE
Person with a password USER
Gay mecca at the tip of Cape Cod, for short PTOWN
Member of a Peruvian empire INCA
Educational ads (Abbr.) PSAS
Identifies NAMES
Reba McEntire song with the lyric “I guess I can wait if that’s what I have to do” TILLYOULOVEME
The Caribbean, for one SEA
Vending machine bills ONES
Surpass the “use by” date EXPIRE
Washes the suds from RINSES
Red or black insect ANT
Actor’s prompt CUE
So-so MEH
Triceps’s place ARM
Wrestling villain named for a foot part HEEL
What some sub-minimum-wage workers rely on TIPINCOME
WNBA officials REFS
Curtain holder ROD
Crystal ball, e.g. ORB
Word the “r” replaces in “hru” ARE
Moral wrong SIN
Composed for a group of singers CHORAL
Math genius Mirzakhani MARYAM
“Escapism” singer RAYE
However YET
Mah-jongg or Azul, e.g. TILEBASEDGAME
Poem with a seasonal reference HAIKU
Frigga’s husband ODIN
Dewrinkle IRON
Baby bird that hoots OWLET
Grandma’s wife, perhaps NANA
Pay to lease RENT
Birds that love golf courses GEESE
Greek god of desire EROS
Maybelline’s Great ___ Mascara LASH

Down

Watts and knots UNITS
More microscopic TINIER
Renown ACCLAIM
Recover HEAL
“Company” actress Patti LUPONE
Magazine installments ISSUES
The Okra Project donates home-cooked ones MEALS
“. . . ish” ORSO
First in line, say UPNEXT
One might be “forever” STAMP
Hockey team’s local rink HOMEICE
Woolly mama EWE
MDs’ colleagues RNS
“Super Mario” creature who lays eggs YOSHI
Payment app VENMO
Deeply regret RUE
Fish that works for Ursula EEL
Soccer goal attachments NETS
Curved shape ARC
Plus AND
Mister, in German HERR
Like 2, 3 and 23 PRIME
Charged atom ION
Imitated a cow MOOED
Woolly papa RAM
Chapter of history ERA
___ window (ovulation calculator’s estimate) FERTILE
What the “BA” stands for in BART BAYAREA
Respectful gesture SALUTE
World Series of Poker location CASINO
Harley Quinn’s pets HYENAS
Sour yellow fruits LEMONS
“Yeesh” YIKES
Meteorologist’s tool RADAR
Like Capricorn, in the zodiac TENTH
Common dog treat shape BONE
“XOXO, Gossip ___” GIRL
Take all of HOG
Amazement AWE

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