| 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 24, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 24, 2014
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USA Today Solutions - June 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 23, 2014
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 Solutions - June 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 22, 2014
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 Solutions - June 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 21, 2014
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 Solutions - June 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 20, 2014
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 Solutions - June 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 19, 2014
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 Solutions - June 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jun 18, 2014
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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USA Today Solutions - June 2014
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