USA Today Crossword Answers April 20, 2024
Author: by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano
Across
“___ Doves Cry” (Prince hit) | WHEN |
___ logs (snored loudly) | SAWED |
Sword handle | HILT |
Polynesian dance | HULA |
Menudo ingredient | TRIPE |
Nepal’s continent | ASIA |
CEO’s staffer | ASST |
Buddha’s Tooth, e.g. | RELIC |
Voting coalition | BLOC |
“Same thing I always order!” | THEUSUAL |
Show the ropes | ORIENT |
Aries animal | RAM |
Deck with the Judgement card | TAROT |
Neither flat nor sharp | ONKEY |
Vietnamese soup | PHO |
Comes to an end | STOPS |
“No Doubt” song with the lyric “I know just what you’re saying” | DONTSPEAK |
Helvetica alternative | ARIAL |
Suffix for “evil” | DOER |
“It’s more an ___ than a science” | ART |
Nook’s counterpart | CRANNY |
Baby grizzly or panda | BEARCUB |
Enjoys a lollipop | LICKS |
Type | ILK |
Publication read on a Kindle | EBOOK |
Novelist Rooney | SALLY |
Ice cream drink | MALT |
Ingredients in scrambles | EGGS |
“More info forthcoming” | TBA |
Shoe part | SOLE |
Word after “focus” or “peer” | GROUP |
Fancy home in many Disney movies | ROYALPALACE |
Modern term of endearment | BAE |
Reach a balance | EVENOUT |
Little kiddo | TOT |
Pennsylvania in D.C., for one | AVE |
Divisions of school days | PERIODS |
“Help!” letters | SOS |
Word before “bod” or “joke” | DAD |
Down
“Can you repeat that?” | WHAT |
“Be quiet!” | HUSH |
Otherwise | ELSE |
Gentle hiking path with informational markers | NATURETRAIL |
Play a mandolin | STRUM |
___ of expertise | AREA |
“Anything else?” | WILLTHATBEALL |
Prefix for “center” | EPI |
Architectural Digest subject | DECOR |
Record with daily checklists and streaks | HABITTRACKER |
Speck in the sea | ISLE |
Simba or Kimba, in animation | LION |
Mediator’s skill | TACT |
Simon ___ (kids’ game) | SAYS |
“Ahsoka” actress Dawson | ROSARIO |
Totally fine | AOK |
“That’s weird . . .” | ODD |
Gamer who might get pwned | NOOB |
Largest joint in the human body | KNEE |
Arequipa’s country | PERU |
Sound from a sty | OINK |
Woks and skillets, e.g. | PANS |
Foxlike | SLY |
Prepare for a trip | PACK |
Coagulate | CLOT |
“r u serious?” | RLY |
Sounds from flocks | BLEATS |
Throat infection | STREP |
None of the ___ | ABOVE |
Sauce, noodles or cheese, for lasagna | LAYER |
Watery defenses | MOATS |
Get moldy, maybe | GOBAD |
The “G” in Hawaiian POG juice | GUAVA |
Setting on a treadmill | SPEED |
Potato, informally | SPUD |
“Whatever Lola wants, Lola ___” | GETS |
Singer DiFranco | ANI |
Brit’s bathroom | LOO |
Make a doting sound | COO |