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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 24, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 24, 2014

Clue	Answer
". . . happily ___ after"	EVER
"Fee, ___, foe, fum"	FIE
"Mulholland Drive" director David	LYNCH
"Star-Spangled Banner" preposition	OER
"What did I tell you!"	SEE
A little energy	ERG
Academy in Maryland	NAVAL
Agcy. that may order recalls	FDA
Alternative to Alpine, in skiing	NORDIC
Athenian marketplace	AGORA
Atlantis cover?	OCEAN
Authentication of a will	PROBATE
Auto road-debris protector	BRA
Balloon filler	AIR
Baste	SEW
Bios of a kind	OBITS
Bird with a cup-shaped nest	VIREO
Brilliant success	ECLAT
Bullish times	UPS
Certain cats, goats or rabbits	ANGORAS
Change one's ways?	TURN
Coating of filth	CRUD
Colander kin	SIEVE
Concerning the ear	OTIC
Dutch Guiana, now	SURINAM
El ___ (Spanish hero)	CID
Expired, as a subscription	RANOUT
Fancy bathroom fixtures	BIDETS
Far-many link	TOO
Fire engine feature	SIREN
Fond du ___ (Wisconsin city)	LAC
His title was stripped in '67	ALI
Hurled or tossed	THREW
In the thick of	AMID
It might knock you out	GAS
It often has sliding doors	VAN
Jean material	DENIM
Kind of question	TRIVIA
Lawn trimming tool	EDGER
Leave the straight and narrow	ERR
Like some cheddar	SHARP
Like some heartbeats	RAPID
Make the effort	TRY
Memento	RELIC
Mocks or knocks	DERIDES
Mountain debris	SCREE
Musical number	PIECE
New England seafood catch	SCROD
One with lots to show you	REALTOR
Places for braces	TEETH
Play a set with the band	SITIN
Pocket-protector brigade	NERDS
Poker ploy	BLUFF
Prepare to drag race	REV
Prince Harry's mother	DIANA
Princess's headgear	TIARA
Promotion in rank	ADVANCEMENT
Pronominal contraction	HED
Rachel's father	LABAN
Requiring the least driving	NEAREST
Saltpeter	NITER
Shower powder	TALC
Singer DiFranco	ANI
Skating star Kulik	ILIA
Snaffle bit	BRIDOON
Some magazine filler	ADVERTISING
State of opposition	ADVERSENESS
Stunt double, for one	STANDIN
Therapeutic place	SPA
Titled years, collectively	ERA
Tries to get a cat to leave	SHOOS
Use an abacus	ADD
Vegas roller	DIE
View from Venice	ADRIATICSEA
Wedding column word	NEE
Wharf rodent	RAT
Wing it, speechwise	ADLIB
Yield via treaty	CEDE

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 23, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 23, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Look" or "must" adjunct	SEE
"Whether ___ nobler . . ."	TIS
"___ the time!"	NOWS
180 deg. from WSW	ENE
24-7, 365 business sign	WENEVERCLOSE
Abstract form of the '60s	OPART
Atoll enclosure	LAGOON
Baby boomers	MEGENERATION
Be a bad winner	GLOAT
Centuries-old object	RELIC
Churchill's gesture	VSIGN
City conduit network	SEWERAGE
Come into existence	EMERGE
Cry from an auctioneer	GOING
Edwin Starr protest song	WAR
Egg-shaped	OVATE
Empty-container weight	TARE
Emulates a beaver	GNAWS
Explosive initials	TNT
Filled with wonder	AWED
First Christmas travelers?	MAGI
Garden shelter	BOWER
Honey badger	RATEL
Horseback-riding outfits	TOGS
Hustle and bustle	ADO
Interject	ADD
It hangs from a mortarboard	TASSEL
It's not an orig	REPRO
Job for a band	GIG
Lack of muscle tone	ATONY
Like some Scandinavians	NORSE
Looking down from	ATOP
Make a long story short	EDIT
Manhattan Project member Enrico	FERMI
Met production	OPERA
Minute fraction	SECOND
Most wily	SLYEST
Narrowly defeat	EDGE
Native of Des Moines	IOWAN
Nattily dressed	DAPPER
Nursery rhyme girl	BOPEEP
Of value	UTILE
Old Indian honorific	SAHIB
Ominous date for Caesar	IDES
One of the Earps	WYATT
One of the inn crowd	GUEST
One's life story, for short	BIO
Parcel (with "out")	METE
Payment for quarters	RENT
Pelvis bones	ILIA
Poems of tribute	ODES
Poet's "frequently"	OFT
Predicted	FORETOLD
Pretty close-by	NEAR
Private lunch?	MESS
Pyramid part	BASE
Related to Mom	ENATE
Retort to an improbable threat	YOUANDWHOSEARMY
Salty body of water	SEA
School fundraising grp	PTA
Seafaring raptors	ERNS
Secret locks?	WIG
Seize	GRAB
Short-lived particles	PIONS
Showed partisanship	SIDED
Shropshire mother	EWE
Take out of circulation	RETIRE
Task list heading	TODO
The "I" in TGIF	ITS
The soft end of the Mohs scale	TALC
They beat deuces	TREYS
Tomato plant trouble	EDEMA
Tree-dwelling ape	ORANG
TV interruptions	ADS
Upset	RILED
Western alliance	NATO
Womb resident	FETUS
Word with glades or green	EVER

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 22, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 22, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Desire Under the ___"	ELMS
"King Kong" star Watts	NAOMI
"Major" constellation	URSA
"Scope" starter	PERI
"Without further ___ . . ."	ADO
"___ go bragh"	ERIN
Abandoned	DESOLATE
Aloha symbols	LEIS
Baited a state trooper	SPED
Ballpark beverage	BEER
Begin a fall	TRIP
Better a bet	RAISE
Bit part	CAMEO
Bold one	DARER
Carpet surfaces	NAPS
Dogmatic teacher	PEDANT
Dovetail sections	TENONS
Dry, white table wine	PINOTCHARDONNAY
Editor's inserts	CARETS
Ended the squeaking	OILED
Erik the Red's people	NORSEMEN
Eyed up and down	OGLED
Federal law officer	GMAN
Flamethrower material	NAPALM
Frosh followers	SOPHS
Gang after outlaws	POSSE
Got wind of	HEARD
Guys' counterparts	GALS
Hair-raising site?	SALON
Hang like basset hound ears	DROOP
Incidental remarks	PASSINGCOMMENTS
Invalidate, as a marriage	ANNUL
Invigorate	PEPUP
It's fit to be tied	OBI
Kinship group	CLAN
Liner or tanker	SHIP
Medicinal measures	DOSES
Moe Howard poke	GOUGE
Moments, for short	SECS
Mountain route	PASS
Mule's mom	MARE
Mythical first lady on Mt. Olympus	HERA
Neither's tagalong	NOR
Not confident	UNSURE
Nuclear reactor part	CORE
Of grand proportions	EPIC
Outlet unit	STORE
Paleo- opposite	NEO
Phrase of explanation	IDEST
Picketer's replacement	SCAB
Pillow coverings	SHAMS
Planned schedule	AGENDA
Poetry Muse	ERATO
Present for the teacher?	HERE
Rain-deprived	ARID
Recess at St. Peter's	APSE
Red October or the Nautilus	SUB
Ripped	TORE
Rose protector	THORN
Sea that parted during the Exodus	RED
Secret repository	CACHE
Ship of Greek myth	ARGO
Small Pacific salmon	COHOE
South American republic	PERU
Sullen expression	MOUE
Swirling effect	EDDY
The cornea covers it	IRIS
They have subsidiaries	PARENTCOMPANIES
Treat shabbily	USE
Unspoken, as an understanding	TACIT
Up-front poker money	ANTE
Use the unsharpened end	ERASE
Valley in California	NAPA
Was a seamstress	SEWED
Winter hazard	SNOW
Word between two surnames	NEE

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 21, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 21, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Big" part of California	SUR
"Gladiator" director	SCOTT
"Moll Flanders" penner Daniel	DEFOE
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" poet	YEATS
13:00 hours	ONE
America's first saint	SETON
Ballet skirt	TUTU
Being born or emerging	NASCENT
Black gold	OIL
Bolsheviks founder	LENIN
Boxer's stats	TKOS
Brandy bottle letters	VSOP
Carmela on "The Sopranos"	EDIE
Certain stooge	MOE
Chantilly product	LACE
Chocolatier's vessel	VAT
Downwind, at sea	ALEE
Easily moved	EMOTIONAL
End of alcohol?	ISM
Eye part	IRIS
First garden	EDEN
Fittingly	APTLY
Fly near the equator?	TSETSE
Freud topic	EGO
From whence some worship	AFAR
Gave some people in Vegas a hand?	DEALT
Gimlet garnish	LIME
In days past	AGO
Incognito	DISGUISED
Increases, as the ante	UPS
Irish greeting for early birds	TOPOFTHEMORNING
It could be grand	PIANO
It may be pint-sized	ALE
It may be stared at for hours on end	TVSET
Japan suffix	ESE
Keister or fanny	TUSH
Kind of statement	YEAREND
Lender's security	LIEN
Like krypton	INERT
Lymph gland	NODE
Marching campus grp	ROTC
Miss Piggy's question	MOI
Monica of tennis	SELES
Nonstick surface	TEFLON
Nutcase	LOON
Partner of tranquility	PEACE
PC linkup	LAN
Place to find straddlers	MIDDLEOFTHEROAD
Prize for Nelson Mandela	NOBEL
Public spat	SCENE
Recess at church	APSE
Remark to an audience	ASIDE
Rex the critic	REED
Rip apart	REND
Rowboat needs	OARS
Rugrats	TOTS
Run without moving	IDLE
Scaloppine, often	VEAL
Scam victims	SAPS
Sheets, etc	LINENS
Show the way, in a way	POINT
Smelling a rat	LEERY
Subject for Strunk and White	USAGE
Teen's problem	ACNE
Tijuana toodle-oo	ADIOS
Title word in the first song you sang this year	AULD
Treat for Cookie Monster	OREO
Trimmed	EDGED
Type of committee	ADHOC
Viscount's superior	EARL
Visits the Land of Nod	SLEEPS
Vitamin supplement	IRON
Water under the drawbridge	MOAT
What a con may assume	ALIAS
When purchased alone	EACH
Where some crooked deals originate?	BOTTOMOFTHEDECK
Wine characteristic	AROMA
Word in the title of five Bruce Willis films	DIE

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 20, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 20, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Anytown, ___"	USA
"Brain" of a PC	CPU
"Diff'rent Strokes" actress Plato	DANA
"Poly" attachment	ESTER
"Present"	HERE
"Without further ___ . . ."	ADO
0.5 fl. oz	TBSP
10-point type	ELITE
Abnormal sac	CYST
Admonishes	SCOLDS
Begin a fall	TRIP
Biblical songbook	PSALTER
Brick of clay and straw	ADOBE
Brinker of "The Silver Skates"	HANS
British knights	SIRS
Celebrity bit part	CAMEO
Cellphone forerunners	PAGERS
Checkup sound	AAH
Church's 10 percent	TITHE
Court demand	ORDER
Distance letters	KERN
Drive-in movie unit	CARLOAD
Eastern nurse	AMAH
Eavesdropper	SNOOP
Eon segments	AGES
Everyone's pick	UNANIMOUSCHOICE
Fabric fuzz	LINT
Finds new tenants for	RELETS
Former French franc fraction	SOU
Furnished with footgear	SHOED
Game-clock ticks	SECS
Given to irony	SATIRIC
Gridiron option on fourth down	PUNT
Hero of "The Matrix"	NEO
Highway behemoth	SEMI
Household tank	SEPTIC
It may tingle	SPINE
Kept apart	SPACED
Knock for a loop	STUN
Leaves slack-jawed	AWES
Macbeth's earned position	THANE
Medical resident	INTERN
Mend by stitching	DARN
Not exactly active	INERT
Obsessed by	INTO
One-many separator	TOO
Ostrich cousin	EMU
Pampered one?	TOT
Partner of sciences	ARTS
Person creating rhymes	POET
Piano-factory employee	TUNER
Porgies	SCUPS
Prepare the salad	TOSS
Quark's place	ATOM
Rapunzel's claim to fame	HAIR
Reggae's precursor	SKA
Scottish family	CLAN
Secretive attention-getter	PSST
Show rosters	CASTS
Slowly disintegrate	ERODE
Small amphibians	EFTS
Snowfall measure	INCH
So last year	PASSE
Sprays in self-defense	MACES
Submarine, e.g	UNDERWATERCRAFT
Throat affliction	STREP
To the ___ degree	NTH
Tokyo, formerly	EDO
Tour-bus occupant	ROADIE
Tracking dog's indicator	ODOR
Type of cotton	PIMA
Vietnam's capital	HANOI
Wearing clothes	CLAD
What i.e. stands for	IDEST
Yearn from within	UNCONSCIOUSURGE
___ bird (black-footed albatross)	GOONEY

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 19, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 19, 2014

Clue	Answer
"The best is ___ to come!"	YET
"The Steel Curtain" coach	NOLL
"This tape will self-destruct . . ." org	IMF
"Um, I'm trying to talk here . . ."	AHEM
Armstrong or Diamond	NEIL
Baptism or bar mitzvah	RITE
Broke ground?	HOED
City not far from Buffalo	ERIE
City of witch hunts	SALEM
Cooked in a skillet	FRIED
Distributed (with "out")	METED
Dry as a desert	ARID
Eyelid woe	STYE
Feeling distressed	DISMAYED
Font for holy water	STOUP
Girls' night out diversion	CHICKFLICK
Hearst's San ___	SIMEON
Hit with hailstones	PELT
Hot and shivery	FEBRILE
Javelin paths	ARCS
Keyless, as music	ATONAL
Kind of terrier	SKYE
Lacking spice	TAME
Lend a hand	HELP
Like some long sentences	RUNON
Like the bone in a loin steak	TSHAPED
Lose one's footing	SLIP
Low playing card	TREY
Low-down joint	ANKLE
Luke follower	JOHN
Mail payment	REMIT
Monkeyshines	HANKYPANKY
Musical beats (var.)	TEMPI
Not exactly closed	AJAR
Obeyed a court order?	ROSE
Oinker's abode	STY
Overly pompous	HOITYTOITY
Part of a cheerleader's routine	YELL
Pianists' practice pieces	ETUDES
Popular kids' show	BLUESCLUES
Pre-1917 rulers	TSARS
Prince Valiant's eldest son	ARN
Produce anew	RECREATE
Queen who backed Columbus	ISABELLA
Quite fond of	INTO
Red opening?	INFRA
Request permission	ASK
Rimshot instrument	SNARE
River through Limerick	SHANNON
San Francisco hill	NOB
Shout in church	AMEN
Show team spirit	ROOT
Showing the most wear and tear	TATTIEST
Silly mistake	GOOF
Skylit central courts	ATRIA
Spades, in spades	TRUMP
Speck in the drink	ISLE
Standards of behavior	MORES
Start the pot	ANTE
Straight muscles	RECTI
Strapped supporter	BRA
Suddenly attacked	FORAYED
Suffix for drop or pig	LET
Take up the whole couch	LOLL
Tender to the touch	SORE
Thick, heavy shoe	BROGAN
Toymaker up north	ELF
Traditional fastball sign	ONE
Type of blonde	ASH
Undersea vegetation	KELP
Univ. military program	ROTC
Unstable particle	MUON
Verbalizes	SAYS
Way to be rewarded	AMPLY
Words with "sleep" or "step"	ONIT
Writer Zola	EMILE
You can beat it with a stick	DRUM
___ Minor	ASIA

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 18, 2014

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USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 18, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Desperate Housewives" lane	WISTERIA
"Got ___?"	MILK
"L'___ del Cairo" (Mozart opera)	OCA
"Sack" attachment	KNAP
"Still . . ."	EVENSO
Answer that's up in the air	MAYBEMAYBENOT
Best way to sing	ONKEY
Beyond the city limits	SUBURBAN
Caged mimic	PARAKEET
City in Norway	OSLO
Cook in the microwave, slangily	NUKE
Corvine sound	CAW
Download for Android	APP
Dry and crumbly	MEALY
Gourmandized	ATE
Gracefully athletic	AGILE
Held sway	RULED
Highlander	GAEL
In need of recharging	DEAD
It can be drafted	BEER
It was well-read	YESTERDAYSPAPER
Japanese port	OSAKA
Johnny Cash's "boy"	SUE
Joined forces	MERGED
Kind of sax	ALTO
Letters between two names	AKA
Like a narrow mind	ONETRACK
Like fiery pokers	REDHOT
Like some martinis	DRY
Llama land	PERU
London art museum	TATE
Lovely ladies	PERIS
Medicinal shrubs	SENNAS
Meter feeder's need	CHANGE
Mogul mogul	NAWAB
Mouse kin	RAT
Moved like a night crawler	WORMED
Not a challenge	EASY
Nothing to brag about	SOSO
Occurred to (with "on")	DAWNED
One way to travel or study	ABROAD
One who puts the punch in punch	LACER
Option for Hamlet	TOBE
Overdue thing	ARREAR
Pastoral work (var.)	IDYL
Peeler's target	RIND
Perfect for the tabloid headlines	LURID
Plant support	STEM
Polynesian paste	POI
Possess	HAVE
Propelling the bireme	OARING
Puppeteer Lewis	SHARI
Remove suds	RINSE
Rice on a shelf	ANNE
Romantic hopeful	WOOER
Ship reference	SHE
Sound for a spelunker	ECHO
Spread out	BROADEN
Squared all debts	PAIDUP
Stylish elegance	ELAN
Swirling effect	EDDY
Syllables sung while skipping	TRALA
Synagogue scroll	TORAH
Tapered support item	TEE
Test sites	LABS
The Almighty	GOD
There's no I in it	TEAM
They're put in food	TEETH
Time of existence	AGE
Turns into compost	ROTS
Using a camcorder	TAPING
Vote against	NAY
Weapon since '52	HBOMB
Word between two names	NEE
Words from Donne	NOMANISANISLAND
Your, old-style	THY

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