USA Today Puzzle Answers March 14, 2024
Author: by Michael Berg
Across
| Disparity | GAP |
| Nutrition plans | DIETS |
| Rounded roofs | DOMES |
| “Pale” beverage | ALE |
| Vision-related | OPTIC |
| Flooded | AWASH |
| Trans March on Broadway organizer | SIS |
| Makeup of about 60% of the human body | WATER |
| Brother’s daughter | NIECE |
| Coverage for a kitty | PETINSURANCE |
| Play detective | SNOOP |
| “The Tell-Tale Heart” author | POE |
| Bliss | JOY |
| Least rapid | SLOWEST |
| Antibiotics, for strep throat | CURE |
| End of a nonprofit’s URL, often | ORG |
| Shrinking sea in Central Asia | ARAL |
| Moseys | AMBLES |
| Note that might include an RSVP request | PARTYINVITATION |
| Regardless | EVENSO |
| Second-to-last word in many fairy tales | EVER |
| That, in Spanish | ESO |
| Bug repellent ingredient | DEET |
| Flips out | LOSESIT |
| Nine-digit ID | SSN |
| Snakelike fish | EEL |
| Got ready to shoot a free throw | AIMED |
| Investment returns, dividend stocks, etc. | PASSIVEINCOME |
| Red veggies in borscht | BEETS |
| Battery unit | VOLT |
| Journey | TRIP |
| Alpaca relative that communicates by humming | LLAMA |
| “Legally Blonde” protagonist | ELLE |
| Regarding | ASTO |
| Rapper Elliott | MISSY |
| Sewing line | SEAM |
| “___ la vie” | CEST |
Down
| Sounds of shock | GASPS |
| Marvin the Martian, for one | ALIEN |
| Basil-and-pine-nuts sauce | PESTO |
| De-emphasizes | DOWNPLAYS |
| Hoppy brews, briefly | IPAS |
| Dramatic cry of betrayal | ETTU |
| Wedding cake layer | TIER |
| Abandons, like a craft project | SCRAPS |
| Boogie | DANCE |
| Boo-boo | OWIE |
| “Good Girls” actress Whitman | MAE |
| Top-left PC key | ESC |
| “Nevertheless, ___ persisted” | SHE |
| Platform for Siri | IOS |
| Marks up, like a research paper | NOTATES |
| “Mary Poppins” actress Andrews | JULIE |
| Cookies with a limited edition Space Dunk variety | OREOS |
| Two-option question type | YESNO |
| Black-and-orange birds | ORIOLES |
| Pale | WAN |
| Santa’s helpers | ELVES |
| Common talk therapy for depression (Abbr.) | CBT |
| Opinion columns | OPEDS |
| Glowing reviews | RAVES |
| Common frozen vegetables | GREENPEAS |
| Maid ___ (“Robin Hood” heroine) | MARIAN |
| Explosive in many Acme products | TNT |
| “___ seen enough!” | IVE |
| Tapenade ingredients | OLIVES |
| Small mint in a clear box | TICTAC |
| Writing assignment | ESSAY |
| ___ code | MORSE |
| Radiates | EMITS |
| Train terminal | DEPOT |
| Devices with PIN pads | ATMS |
| Burrowing, mouselike rodent | VOLE |
| Jazz singer Fitzgerald | ELLA |
| Agenda part | ITEM |
| Letters on some racial justice signs | BLM |
| Former quarterback Manning | ELI |
