USA Today Crossword Clues and Answers February 02, 2024
Author: by Brooke Husic
Across
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 |