| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Ahem" alternative | PSST |
| "Anyone ___?" | ELSE |
| "Fiddlesticks!" | PSHAW |
| Accepted by vote again | READOPTED |
| Accessory for Superman | CAPE |
| Adjust beforehand | PRESET |
| Aerie hatchling | EAGLET |
| All the ___ (immaterial) | SAME |
| Andorra la ___ (Pyrenees capital) | VELLA |
| Author Roberts | NORA |
| Balsam ___ | FIR |
| Belching flames | AFIRE |
| Big-mouthed pitcher | EWER |
| Bring home from work | EARN |
| Brits' air arm | RAF |
| Business card no | TEL |
| Coffee-to-go necessity | LID |
| Common email attachment type | |
| Ctrl-___-Del | ALT |
| Curtain support | ROD |
| Debut | FIRSTAPPEARANCE |
| Encouraging sound | RAH |
| Enthusiasm | AVIDNESS |
| Expensive fungi | TRUFFLES |
| Farthest (Abbr.) | ULT |
| Fireplace shelf | MANTEL |
| Foolish time | APRILTHEFIRST |
| Frighten | UNNERVE |
| Gang | POSSE |
| Get a load of | ESPY |
| Gibson of "Braveheart" | MEL |
| Good thing | ASSET |
| Got fed up? | ATE |
| Gravelly voiced speaker | RASPER |
| Guitar part | FRET |
| Hairy cousin | ITT |
| Hanged | STRUNGUP |
| High point on a European tour? | ALP |
| Hosts | EMCEES |
| In and of ___ | ITSELF |
| It may be dotted? | ANI |
| It's stuck on some mail | FIRSTCLASSSTAMP |
| Items used by good buddies? | CBS |
| Judicial comments | DICTA |
| Last word before dinner, often | AMEN |
| Like a clarinet | REEDED |
| Like a fire truck | RED |
| Marc of distinction | ANTONY |
| Memo directive | ASAP |
| Moscow monarch, once | TSAR |
| Necessity for a tailor | NEEDLE |
| Newspaper customers | READERS |
| Not at all distinct | BLEARY |
| One might be heard under a balcony | SERENADE |
| Outcast | MISFIT |
| Palm fruit | DATES |
| Prelude to a license | TEST |
| Put into action | USE |
| Record of events | LOG |
| Riles | IRKS |
| Schooner feature | MAST |
| Shaggy Scandinavian rug | RYA |
| Shift neighbor | ENTER |
| Sound in body | HALE |
| Sounds heard in a library | SHS |
| Suit of cards | SPADE |
| Tennis legend Chris' family | EVERTS |
| Tooth-care pros' org | ADA |
| Traffic halter | STOPLIGHT |
| Undulating fish | EEL |
| Victorian or Edwardian | ERA |
| Wading birds | STORKS |
| What a party invitation might specify | ATTIRE |
| Words before "king" or "mode" | ALA |
| ___ Juan Hill | SAN |
| ___ Lanka | SRI |
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 04, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 04, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 03, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 03, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Same here" | METOO |
| "The Joy of Cooking" author Rombauer | IRMA |
| "Thy word is a lamp ___ my feet . . ." | UNTO |
| Adjoins | ABUTS |
| Animal trapper | SNARE |
| Attention-getting gas | NEON |
| Australian aborigines' calls | COOEES |
| Baghdad's land | IRAQ |
| Based on good judgment | SOLID |
| Blue ___ Mountains | RIDGE |
| Boss on a shield | UMBO |
| Burn slightly | SEAR |
| Cambodian Pot | POL |
| Coke mixer | RUM |
| Command finish? | EER |
| Crow sounds | CAWS |
| Diaper dampener | TOT |
| Don't just want | NEED |
| Downright nasty | MEAN |
| Early pulpit | AMBO |
| Enemy of the mongoose | COBRA |
| Evoke good feelings | ENDEAR |
| Exhibition viewed in a box | RAREESHOW |
| Feldspar, e.g | ORE |
| Fencer's foil | EPEE |
| Fridge item | OLEO |
| Future witness? | SEER |
| Good piece of one's mind? | IDEA |
| Greek god of war | ARES |
| Gym activity for two | RACQUETBALLGAME |
| Hit a batter | BEAN |
| Insect trapper | WEB |
| Invisible gift from Mom or Dad | GENE |
| It began in 1940 | BATTLEOFBRITAIN |
| It's been said | UTTERANCE |
| Jane Austen classic | EMMA |
| Lake or canal | ERIE |
| Leg wrap for soldiers | PUTTEE |
| Like a pig in a pen | STIED |
| Mai ___ (cocktail) | TAI |
| Main order in a restaurant | ENTREE |
| Maine tree | PINE |
| Managed to squeeze out | EKED |
| Mark with minute grooves | STRIATE |
| Mother of mercy? | TERESA |
| Not imagined | REAL |
| Note-passer's noise | PSST |
| Old-time transport | PADDLESTEAMSHIP |
| Omnipresent ringer | PHONE |
| One mimicking | APER |
| One of every two hurricanes | SHE |
| One who's sprung the coop | ESCAPEE |
| Org. on toothpaste boxes | ADA |
| Pageant host | EMCEE |
| Place in Peru | LIMA |
| Plenty angry | SORE |
| Puffy hairdo | AFRO |
| Quarry in a Carroll verse | SNARK |
| Ranked in a tournament | SEEDED |
| Rat residence | SEWER |
| Razor part | EDGE |
| Rocker Money | EDDIE |
| Skunk's weapon | ODOR |
| Spends days in the woods | CAMPS |
| Teller of falsehoods | LIAR |
| Toward the core | INNERLY |
| Two movie stars dating, e.g | ITEM |
| Used for purification | LUSTRAL |
| Variation in color | TONE |
| Weight-loss locale | SPA |
| Wing-shaped | ALAR |
| Word on a buck | ONE |
| World Cup highlight | FINAL |
| ___ Buena Island | YERBA |
| ___ Lanka | SRI |
| ___ Romeo (imported auto) | ALFA |
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 02, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 02, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Iliad" setting | TROY |
| "In ___ case . . ." | ANY |
| "What's the ___?" (quitter's comment) | USE |
| Abbr. on many letters | POBOX |
| Addams Family member | ITT |
| Airborne distractions | FLIES |
| AMA members | DRS |
| Anagram for "ante" | ETNA |
| Animal that howls | LOBO |
| Archibald and Thurmond | NATES |
| Be a bad loser | NOTACCEPTDEFEAT |
| Beards, as of oats | AWNS |
| Benched too long | RUSTY |
| Better-be-safe choice | BOTH |
| Bonet or Loeb | LISA |
| Canonized femme (Abbr.) | STE |
| Carpet-maker's fiber | ISTLE |
| Christmas seasons | YULES |
| City on Japan's Honshu | OSAKA |
| Cobbled together | MADE |
| Contributes to the cause | AIDS |
| Copernicus, on the moon | CRATER |
| Couch-potato option | CBS |
| DeVito's "Taxi" role | LOUIE |
| Difficulties | SNAGS |
| Enter into conflict | ENGAGE |
| F on a test paper | FALSE |
| Fashionably passe | RETRO |
| Filibusterers | OBSTRUCTIONISTS |
| Frankenstein monster feature | SCAR |
| Get rid of files on a PC | ERASE |
| Got a load of | EYED |
| Hardly the macho type | SISSY |
| Instrument for the tongue | DEPRESSOR |
| Large ocean-dweller | SEI |
| Lee found in the supermarket | SARA |
| Momma's soulmate | POPPA |
| Nickel-and-___ (cheapskate) | DIMER |
| Old-fashioned exclamation | EGAD |
| Olympic competitor | ATHLETE |
| One may exert pressure | PEER |
| One of Marge Simpson's sisters | SELMA |
| Pakistani coin | RUPEE |
| Partner of hope and charity | FAITH |
| Piece maker? | COLT |
| Piece of Olympic equipment | EPEE |
| Plume's source | EGRET |
| Prefix for morons? | OXY |
| Prince Charles served in it (Abbr.) | RAF |
| Provoked (with "on") | EGGED |
| Rocky mountain peaks | TORS |
| Round pastries | DONUTS |
| Shakespearean character | ROMEO |
| Singing range of most women | ALTO |
| Small valuables | GEMS |
| Sob story subject | WOE |
| Social tier | CASTE |
| Some Indian music pieces | RAGAS |
| Some late-game football tactics | PREVENTDEFENSES |
| Some trumpeters | ELEPHANTS |
| Sounder of mind | SANER |
| Soviet prison camp | GULAG |
| Stare appreciatively | OGLE |
| Trough filler | FEED |
| Vigor | PEP |
| Westminster concern | BREED |
| Whitney's jet engine partner | PRATT |
| Wooer's request | YES |
| Words of disrespect | SASS |
| Words with "Mr. Nice Guy!" | NOMORE |
| You may keep tabs on them | FOLDERS |
| Zest for life | ELAN |
| ___ Dawn Chong | RAE |
| ___ out (gets by) | EKES |
| ___ up (accelerate) | REV |
| ___-do-well (scoundrel) | NEER |
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 01, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 01, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "24" hero Jack | BAUER |
| "Cross my heart and hope to ___!" | DIE |
| "Finally!" | ATLONGLAST |
| "Les Miserables" setting | SEWER |
| "Pardon me" grunts | AHEMS |
| "Terrible" ages | TWOS |
| "The Matrix Reloaded" character | NEO |
| According to | ALA |
| Aim at the barcode | SCAN |
| Alaska resource | OIL |
| Alliance of nations | BLOC |
| Area under a concha | APSE |
| Away from the gusts | ALEE |
| Bewhiskered animal | SEAL |
| Bird no more | DODO |
| Birdhouse nester | WREN |
| Briggs' partner in engines | STRATTON |
| British "Bye-bye!" | TATA |
| Bull sound | SNORT |
| Certain Eastern European | CROAT |
| City in Norway | OSLO |
| Civil punishments | FINES |
| Composition by Chopin | ETUDE |
| Cooking fats | LARDS |
| Cousin of a camel | LLAMA |
| Cry one's eyes out | BAWL |
| Defunct sports org. since '76 | ABA |
| Detonation maker | TNT |
| Doughboy's ally | POILU |
| Drop, as from a list | OMIT |
| Dropped-egg sound | SPLAT |
| Easygoing marketing technique | SOFTSELL |
| Epic poem division | CANTO |
| Evening, in Venice | SERA |
| Exterior finish for dwellings | STUCCO |
| Feature of many a sumo wrestler | POTBELLY |
| Final try | LASTATTEMPT |
| Former coin of Cremona | LIRA |
| Get bested | LOSE |
| Greenhouse heat | SOLAR |
| Harp ancestors | LYRES |
| Health resort | SPA |
| In a normal voice | ALOUD |
| It may be played or donated | ORGAN |
| It's used if all else fails | LASTRESORT |
| Lacking in liveliness | DRAB |
| Lazy girl? | SUSAN |
| Like the "o" in go | LONG |
| Little lad | TYKE |
| Little picture | ICON |
| Missing, GI-style | AWOL |
| Nebraska city | OMAHA |
| Network, for example | AIRER |
| One of the Inner Hebrides | SKYE |
| Operatic masterpiece of 1871 | AIDA |
| Overly fond ones | DOTERS |
| Pallid-looking | ASHY |
| Persona non ___ | GRATA |
| Playing will a full deck | SANE |
| Poetic patchwork | CENTO |
| Ring with a glow | HALO |
| Shalhoub role | MONK |
| Some piano workers | TUNERS |
| Some tributes | ODES |
| Sound that's coming back? | ECHO |
| Strip at a swim meet | LANE |
| Subject of a house inspection test | RADON |
| Swimming-pool tester | TOE |
| Talked like Vito Corleone | RASPED |
| The whole shebang | ALL |
| They might be pale | ALES |
| Throw one's support behind | BACK |
| Two-choice situation | EITHEROR |
| Very well-constructed | BUILTTOLAST |
| Wallace of Reader's Digest renown | LILA |
| Where the game is, if not home | AWAY |
| Word with "covert" or "special" | OPS |
| Word with "latch" or "hold" | ONTO |
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Aug 31, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Aug 31, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Hungry, hungry" critter of a kid's game | HIPPO |
| "Now, wait just a ___!" | SEC |
| 17th letter of the Greek alphabet | RHO |
| Additive to some tissues | ALOE |
| After-dinner speech, sometimes | TRIBUTE |
| Andean stimulants | COCAS |
| Auger, e.g | BORER |
| Beany's cartoon pal | CECIL |
| Cask attachment | TAP |
| Checkered vehicles | CABS |
| Cheerios grain | OAT |
| Cigarette output | ASH |
| Clavell's "___-Pan" | TAI |
| Close-fitting short jacket | COATEE |
| Coffee container | CAN |
| Competition site | ARENA |
| Completely absorbed | RAPT |
| Doesn't exist | ISNT |
| Double-reed orchestra instrument | OBOE |
| Dr. McGraw of TV | PHIL |
| Ebenezer Scrooge epithet | BAH |
| Encircle | GIRD |
| Example in one's thesis, perhaps | CASESTUDY |
| Fair way to divide things up | EVENLY |
| Formerly, previously | ERST |
| Forming clumps | CAKY |
| Gambling and boozing, for two | VICES |
| Half a chocolate? | BON |
| Hebrew month preceding Yom Kippur | ELUL |
| Holier than ___ | THOU |
| Humiliate | ABASH |
| Hunter's get-up | VEST |
| Icicle site | EAVE |
| Ill at ___ | EASE |
| Light metallic sound | TING |
| Like certain sums | TIDY |
| London, Baltimore and Paris | CITIES |
| Luau entertainer, briefly | UKE |
| Madagascar primate | INDRI |
| Mishmash or medley | OLIO |
| Most memorable | CATCHIEST |
| Office building owner, often | LESSOR |
| Opera solo | ARIA |
| Pasture animal | SHEEP |
| Peace agreement | PACT |
| Pedestal part | DADO |
| Pen room | CELL |
| Photo on metal | TINTYPE |
| Pitcher of milk? | ELSIE |
| Play divisions | ACTS |
| Raise Cain | DISTURBTHEPEACE |
| Reason for some grants | NEED |
| Reason to see a doctor | IRRITATINGCOUGH |
| Retro restaurant | AUTOMAT |
| Rhythmical stress | ICTUS |
| Sapsucker's home | NEST |
| Shrek and Fiona, for two | OGRES |
| Single-principle philosopher | MONIST |
| Snatch a schnauzer | DOGNAP |
| Soccer pair? | CEES |
| Some bridge seats | EASTS |
| Stand at the banquet? | DAIS |
| The Taj Mahal's town | AGRA |
| They're spotted in Vegas | DICE |
| Things you'd rather not do | BOTHERSOMETASKS |
| This may be deductible | LOSS |
| Thunderous sound | BOOM |
| Tibetan monk | LAMA |
| Tight-mouthed | MUM |
| Toeing the party line | LOYAL |
| Took a shine to | LIKED |
| Track legend Lewis | CARL |
| Type of pool | GENE |
| When the night darkens | MOONSET |
| Wife of Lennon | ONO |
| Writer Waugh | ALEC |
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Aug 30, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Aug 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Battleship Potemkin" mutiny locale | ODESSA |
| "Beau ___" | GESTE |
| "Botch-___" (Rosemary Clooney hit) | AME |
| "Doubt" star | STREEP |
| "Just the Way You ___" | ARE |
| "Surfin' ___" (Beach Boys hit) | USA |
| "The Age of Bronze" sculptor | RODIN |
| "Winnie ___ Pu" | ILLE |
| "___ Bulba" (Gogol novel) | TARAS |
| "___ New York minute" | INA |
| A professor's duster? | TEACHERSMAID |
| Adam Wainwright's defense against an angry batsman? | PITCHINGMACE |
| Annapolis sch | USNA |
| Assess proportionally | PRORATE |
| Baseball's Maglie | SAL |
| Benchmarks (Abbr.) | STDS |
| Betel nut source | ARECA |
| Black, to Blake | EBON |
| Boat race | REGATTA |
| Booster Club mem | ALUM |
| Brit singer Lewis | LEONA |
| Carson's predecessor | PAAR |
| Character in "A Passage To India" | ADELA |
| Chesterfields | SOFAS |
| Comedian Philips | EMO |
| Commissioned naval officer | ENSIGN |
| Corporate department | SALES |
| Deadly virus | EBOLA |
| Descendant of Shem | SEMITE |
| Dickens' title beginning | ATALE |
| Duck or hue | TEAL |
| Edward R. Murrow TV program | SEEITNOW |
| Foul mood | SNIT |
| Garish light | NEON |
| Give the OK | ASSENT |
| Hearts, e.g | SUIT |
| It's often bid | ADIEU |
| Keep an ___ the ground | EARTO |
| Lex Luthor's foe | SUPERMAN |
| Man of many parts | ACTOR |
| Maugham work about a sweet-toothed gal's dream date? | CAKESANDMALE |
| MGM co-founder | LOEW |
| Mrs., in Madrid | SRA |
| New parents' purchases | CRIBS |
| Noted Penn name | SEAN |
| Of a blood line | AORTAL |
| Part of Q.E.F. or Q.E.D | ERAT |
| Part of some sweatshirts | HOOD |
| Paul's prison mate | SILAS |
| Paving material | TAR |
| Pendulum's path | ARC |
| Peninsula lost and recaptured during WWII | BATAAN |
| Plant anchorer | ROOT |
| Press for | URGE |
| Puts a question to | ASKS |
| Rainbow components | HUES |
| Recovery program | REHAB |
| Rocky peaks | TORS |
| She, in Sicily | ESSA |
| Sheds tears | WEEPS |
| Shells and shot | AMMO |
| Sugar source | CANE |
| Sultan's wives | HAREM |
| Swimming stroke | CRAWL |
| Take a date to a movie | GOOUT |
| Theater box | LOGE |
| Vehicle weights sans cargo | TARES |
| Weirdos | KOOKS |
| Where left-wingers shop? | LIBERALMARTS |
| Words from a fortune-teller | ISEEA |
| Writer ___ Ingalls Wilder | LAURA |
| ___ a time (individually) | ONEAT |
| ___ elephant (part of a tot's lesson) | EFOR |
| ___ Science Fiction & Fact (magazine) | ANALOG |
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Aug 29, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Aug 29, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Die Lorelei" poet | HEINE |
| "Not guilty" is one | PLEA |
| "Not ___ shabby!" | TOO |
| "That ___ close" | WAS |
| "___ la Douce" | IRMA |
| Abate, as rainfall | LETUP |
| Above, to a poet | OER |
| After, in Paris | APRES |
| Aquarium denizen | EEL |
| At this point | HERE |
| Bar brawl | MELEE |
| Be a poor loser | SULK |
| Best poker pair | ACES |
| Blue-tongued beast | OKAPI |
| Breaks in diplomatic tension | THAWS |
| Breathing anomaly | APNEA |
| Cause of some blowups | TNT |
| Cigar alternative | PIPE |
| Civilian clothes | MUFTI |
| Climax beginning? | ANTI |
| Completely unfamiliar | ALIEN |
| Contending | VYING |
| Eager | AGOG |
| Extinct kin of the kiwi | MOA |
| Farm income producer | CASHCROP |
| Gunpowder ingredient | NITER |
| Handheld purse | CLUTCHBAG |
| Having no legal force | NULL |
| Henley events | REGATTAS |
| Hill nymph | OREAD |
| Hoedown honey | GAL |
| In an unrestrained manner | WILDLY |
| It may be heard at a hearing | ALIBI |
| It might be spam | |
| It's here before tomorrow | TODAY |
| Kind of potatoes? | SMALL |
| Lacks the ability | CANNOT |
| Last yr.'s senior | GRAD |
| Like a hurricane's eye | CALM |
| Mets, Jets or Nets | TEAM |
| Moderate pace | TROT |
| More than a miss | LADY |
| Morsel | BITE |
| My gal, of song | SAL |
| Numbered musical composition | OPUS |
| Old Milanese money | LIRA |
| Oscar winner Paquin | ANNA |
| Part of a place setting | SPOON |
| Peninsula near Hong Kong | MACAU |
| Pet owner's lament (Part 1) | WEMAYNEEDAVET |
| Pet owner's lament (Part 2) | CAUSEOURDOGCANT |
| Pet owner's lament (Part 3) | HOLDITSLICKER |
| Place to sleep, in Britain | DOSS |
| Pleasure boat | YACHT |
| Pro ___ | RATA |
| Procreate Biblical-style | BEGET |
| Radio spot? | STATION |
| Rat Pack first name | SAMMY |
| Remove from a blackboard | ERASE |
| Scheming bunch | CABAL |
| Short profile | BIO |
| Snowboarder's aid | TBAR |
| Still sleeping | ABED |
| Take to the stage | ACT |
| Tiny messenger? | RNA |
| Tiny puncture | PINHOLE |
| Torah storers | ARKS |
| Type of discrimination | AGE |
| Unruly | OUTOFHAND |
| Wafting scent | AROMA |
| What makes a plan plain? | ANI |
| Where a leaf joins a stem | NODE |
| Words of praise by King David | PSALM |
| Yang's flip side | YIN |
| Yonder damsel | HER |
| ___-tzu | LAO |
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