| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "The Laughing Cavalier" artist Frans | HALS |
| "The Vampire Lestat" author Anne | RICE |
| "___ bad moon rising" (CCR lyric) | ISEEA |
| Astronomical phenomena | NOVAE |
| Aye | YEA |
| Batman and Robin | DYNAMICDUO |
| Battleship shade | GRAY |
| Bedeck | ARRAY |
| Bosom buddy | PAL |
| Breaks out | ESCAPES |
| British carbines | STENS |
| Celestial body | STAR |
| Chew on a bone | GNAW |
| Cleansing vessel | BATH |
| Clue weapon | PIPE |
| Cozy inn, briefly | BANDB |
| Dating from | ASOF |
| Difficult experience | ORDEAL |
| Does the Wright thing | AVIATES |
| Dull and lifeless | DRY |
| Evasive language | DOUBLETALK |
| Exhausted | SPENT |
| Finish a scene | WRAP |
| Frosts a cake | ICES |
| Give off, as radiation | EMIT |
| Hardly illusory | REAL |
| Has the title | OWNS |
| Hogwash | BALONEY |
| Irrigates | WATERS |
| It has feathers and flies | DART |
| It may be drawn in the sand | LINE |
| It's no free ride | CAB |
| Jelly for germs | AGAR |
| Ketch cousin | YAWL |
| Kind of soup or salad | POTATO |
| Lady Macbeth's bane | SPOT |
| Leave in haste | SCAT |
| Legal addendum | RIDER |
| Little amphibian | EFT |
| Mining target | SEAM |
| Morse code symbols | DOTS |
| Muhammad's Almighty | ALLAH |
| Muscat's location | OMAN |
| Neither fem. nor masc | NEUT |
| Not reasonable | IRRATIONAL |
| Occasional beeper | CAR |
| Old Norse poetry collection | EDDA |
| Old yarn | TWICETOLDTALE |
| Opening in a sweater? | PORE |
| Predatory shorebird | SKUA |
| Psychic power, briefly | ESP |
| Put on the burner | HEAT |
| Quarter deck? | SUIT |
| Ransacks | LOOTS |
| Reindeer's kin | ELK |
| Resort for losers? | SPA |
| Rhody, in an old song | AUNT |
| Rollers with corners | DICE |
| Sit tight | BIDE |
| Slave | THRALL |
| Society newbie, for short | DEB |
| Stropping result | EDGE |
| Swinging from side to side | SWAYING |
| Touring car | SEDAN |
| Traumatize | SCAR |
| Underlying cause | ROOT |
| Unsolicited opinion | TWOCENTSWORTH |
| Very small amounts | TADS |
| Weighted down | LADEN |
| Went headlong | DOVE |
| Wing-shaped | ALAR |
| Woody, e.g | WOODPECKER |
| Word at an unveiling | VOILA |
| Word with "exam" or "history" | ORAL |
| Worked-up state | SNIT |
| Worry for a high-heel wearer | GRATE |
| Zagros Mountains locale | IRAN |
| Zenith's opposite | NADIR |
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USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 31, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 31, 2014
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USA Today Solutions - May 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 30, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Another name for ancient Troy | ILIUM |
| Auburn dye | HENNA |
| Banister attachment | NEWEL |
| Basic pizza option | CHEESE |
| Bird that lays dark green eggs | EMU |
| Black Friday draw | SALE |
| Boys in kilts | LADS |
| Caffeinated nut | KOLA |
| California's La ___ Tar Pits | BREA |
| Certain gem color | LAPISLAZULIBLUE |
| Charmingly pastoral | IDYLLIC |
| Classic sung by Eric Clapton | LAYLA |
| Cleverly skillful | ADROIT |
| Cloning industry | BIOTECH |
| Commoner, briefly | PLEB |
| Composer's pride | OPUS |
| Continental currency | EURO |
| Countries with a common cause | BLOC |
| Cutlass feature | BLADE |
| Draft drink | BEER |
| Drought-stricken | SERE |
| Extreme aversion | REPULSION |
| Factory whistle time | NOON |
| Famous Hill in San Francisco | NOB |
| Fencer's thrust | LUNGE |
| Full complement of toes | TEN |
| Gold-plated | GILT |
| Grand ___ (wine classification) | CRU |
| Greater in quantity | MORE |
| Guided weapon, for short | ICBM |
| Hoops venue | ARENA |
| Hudson and Green | BAYS |
| It may contain several subjects | LOOSELEAFBINDER |
| It separates countries | BORDER |
| J.R.'s mother in "Dallas" | ELLIE |
| Kind of printer or scheme | COLOR |
| Kind of terrier | SKYE |
| Lagoon, essentially | LANDLOCKEDWATER |
| Like "mice" or "men" | PLURAL |
| Liqueur made with anise | OUZO |
| Moisturizer ingredient, often | ALOE |
| Mongol's tent | YURT |
| Much is done for his sake? | PETE |
| Not in the dark | AWARE |
| Olympic sword | EPEE |
| One may run in it | MEET |
| One who gives a standing eight count | REF |
| Orang or chimp | APE |
| Part of the brain or ear | LOBE |
| Permeate | IMBRUE |
| Phrase before carte or mode | ALA |
| Pricey | DEAR |
| Raccoonlike carnivore | COATI |
| Recycled metal | SCRAP |
| Red, swollen mark | WEAL |
| Roberts role: ___ Brockovich | ERIN |
| Salary ceiling | CAP |
| San Simeon builder | HEARST |
| Scare suddenly | STARTLE |
| Sign for the superstitious | OMEN |
| Sound of fright | GASP |
| Source of a thundering sound | HERD |
| Spaghetti or linguini | PASTA |
| Spread widely, as a rumor | BRUIT |
| Study hard and fast | CRAM |
| The lion in August? | LEO |
| Treater's pickup | TAB |
| Trompe l'___ (art illusion) | OEIL |
| Tropical food staple | TARO |
| Type of leave or insurance | MEDICAL |
| Utilize a pawnshop | HOCK |
| Washday units | LOADS |
| What helps a nose make noise? | ANI |
| Whetter's concern | EDGE |
| With no sign of caving | ADAMANTLY |
| Word between two dogs? | EAT |
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USA Today Solutions - May 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 29, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 29, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| ". . . ___ spacious skies" | FOR |
| "Famous" cookie brand | AMOS |
| "If that's the case . . ." | THEN |
| "Without a doubt!" | YES |
| 38th parallel land | KOREA |
| Acting ambassador | CHARGEDAFFAIRES |
| Adult male deer | HART |
| Alphabetizes, e.g | SORTS |
| Assess | RATE |
| Attain, as a job | LAND |
| Automobile capital | DETROIT |
| Be without | LACK |
| Big name in jeans | LEE |
| Blotch | SPOT |
| Bounce back again, sonically | REECHO |
| Bring in, as political contributions | RAISE |
| Cape Canaveral cancellation | NOGO |
| Carrey character Ventura | ACE |
| Charge for a hand delivery? | ANTE |
| Charter | LEASE |
| Clutched | HELD |
| Come closer to | NEAR |
| Contingency plan | RECOURSE |
| Curious to a fault | NOSEY |
| Cut's colleague? | DRIED |
| Cynic's expression | SNEER |
| Dance syllable that's this puzzle's theme | CHA |
| Deadlocked, as a jury | HUNG |
| Enclosed car | SEDAN |
| Every bit | ALL |
| Full of unresolved questions | IFFY |
| Gabon and Indonesia are members of it | OPEC |
| Half a matched set | HERS |
| Highlands tongue | ERSE |
| Ignore Polonius' advice | LEND |
| Inkless pen | STY |
| Islamic name for the Supreme Being | ALLAH |
| It's sometimes hard to make them meet | ENDS |
| Low dam | WEIR |
| Military messages | ORDERS |
| Much of North America | CANADA |
| Natural earth hue | OCHRE |
| Netbook and tablet maker | ACER |
| Not in the loop | IGNORANT |
| Off-kilter | ASKEW |
| Offers a question | ASKS |
| Old emperor of Russia | TSAR |
| Overwhelm with sound | DEAFEN |
| Pi, e.g | RATIO |
| Plant fungus | ERGOT |
| Points of convergence | FOCI |
| Polio vaccine pioneer | SALK |
| Polynesian garland | LEI |
| Promotional gimmick | TIEIN |
| Russian country house | DACHA |
| Seasickness, for example | NAUSEA |
| Showdown time, in oaters | NOON |
| Sing "nyah-nyah" to | TEASE |
| Smallest possible teams | DUOS |
| Sophocle's initial | SIGMA |
| Sound repetition | ECHO |
| Source of the Niagara | ERIE |
| Start of several Ocean Spray juice names | CRAN |
| Sulky leader | PACER |
| Tested the weight of | HEFTED |
| The boom after the flash | THUNDER |
| They have unusual parts | CHARACTERACTORS |
| They rush in where angels fear to tread | FOOLS |
| Unexplainable and spooky | EERIE |
| Wading bird | EGRET |
| What a mad bull aims to do | GORE |
| What belongs to us | OURS |
| Winner's take | POT |
| Word from Jack's giant | FIE |
| Worry one's pretty little head | FRET |
| You may see guard dogs behind them | CHAINLINKFENCES |
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USA Today Solutions - May 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 28, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 28, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Sack" starter | KNAP |
| '60s jacket style | NEHRU |
| Any of the Marshall Islands | ATOLL |
| Archaeology site | DIG |
| Autocrat | TSAR |
| Barge ___ (interrupt) | INON |
| Becomes liable for | INCURS |
| Beverage cart's locale | AISLE |
| Bivalve mollusk | CLAM |
| Black, in Spain | NEGRO |
| Blender option | CHOP |
| Boarding, as a ship | EMBARKING |
| Born to the purple | NOBLE |
| Broadway stinker | BOMB |
| Capelet relative | STOLE |
| Celestial bear | URSA |
| Center of many revolutions | SUN |
| Certain pronouns | YOUS |
| Check a horse? | REININ |
| City near Stillwater | ENID |
| Club in a bag | IRON |
| Contend | VIE |
| Coppers in Coventry | PENCE |
| Festive affair | GALA |
| Flip-chart holder | EASEL |
| Football great Graham | OTTO |
| Frankenstein's objective | LIFE |
| Grain keeper | SILO |
| Greet the judge nonverbally | RISE |
| Harbor marker | BUOY |
| High-society roster | ALIST |
| Inquisitive searcher | PRIER |
| It can affect one's mood | MENTALOUTLOOK |
| It can be rarely served | STEAK |
| Job-specific vocabulary | ARGOT |
| Kind of house | TREE |
| Kind of speculation | IDLE |
| Like a prof. emerita | RET |
| Like some halls of academe | IVIED |
| Like some record labels | INDIE |
| Macmillan's predecessor as P.M | EDEN |
| Man-eating monster | OGRE |
| Mo. in spring | APR |
| More in line with reality | TRUER |
| Native of Aspen | COLORADAN |
| Needing straightening | BENT |
| Olympic race unit | METER |
| Opposite of WSW | ENE |
| Parallelogram with four equal sides (var.) | RHOMB |
| Pedometer's measurements | STEPS |
| Pesters for payment | DUNS |
| Poll | OPINIONSURVEY |
| Preternatural | EERIE |
| Repairman-to-housewife address | MAAM |
| Reputation ruiner | SCANDALOUSRUMOR |
| Romantic meeting | TRYST |
| Safari beast, for short | RHINO |
| Saudi Arabian and Qatari currencies | RIYALS |
| Scot toppers | TAMS |
| Segue | LEADIN |
| Solving puzzles or building birdhouses, e.g | HOBBY |
| Tequila source | AGAVE |
| The "F" in FYI | FOR |
| Theatrical award | TONY |
| They were nuts once | OAKS |
| They're made to measure | RULERS |
| Till section | TENS |
| Unfocused dread | ANGST |
| Vaudeville shtick | OLIO |
| Victorian, for one | ERA |
| Where to find two black suits | DECK |
| Whiskey varieties | RYES |
| Word with egg or brow | BEATER |
| Wrong for the situation | INAPT |
| ___ time (eventually) | INDUE |
| ___-link fence | CHAIN |
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USA Today Solutions - May 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 27, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 27, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "30," to an editor | END |
| "Arabian Nights" sailor | SINBAD |
| "Right away!" | ATONCE |
| "The Big Apple" | NYC |
| "Well done!" | BRAVO |
| Acting part | ROLE |
| Adjective for a seance | EERIE |
| Affected with frenzy | MANIC |
| Almanac feature | MAP |
| Alternative to "ahem" | PSST |
| Annoying smell | ODOR |
| Army problem | SNAFU |
| Arthurian days, e.g | YORE |
| As many as | UPTO |
| Baby deliverers, symbolically | STORKS |
| Beefy bovine | STEER |
| Biographical focus | LIFE |
| Caruso, famously | TENOR |
| Certain switch positions | OFFS |
| Certain Winter Olympics performer | SKATER |
| Chicken part | LEG |
| Churchill signal | VEE |
| Climbing plant | VINE |
| Colliery opening | ADIT |
| Comic absurdity | FARCE |
| Common question | WHAT |
| Culinary artiste | CHEF |
| Dagger handles | HAFTS |
| Density symbol, in mechanics | RHO |
| Dermabrasion target | SCAR |
| Die, to a frog? | CROAK |
| Dispatched, as a message | SENT |
| Divine power or spirit | NUMEN |
| Double-reed woodwind | OBOE |
| Europe's tallest active volcano | ETNA |
| Far-many link | TOO |
| Friend in need | AIDER |
| Hard to comprehend | DEEP |
| Have a yearning | ACHE |
| Having a sophisticated charm | SUAVE |
| Incredibly innovative | ALMOSTUNHEARDOF |
| Isn't incorrect? | AINT |
| Jailbirds | CONS |
| Kansas City newspaper | STAR |
| Kin of "mac" | BRO |
| Kind of door or yard | FRONT |
| Look at the answers beforehand | CHEAT |
| Made anew | REDID |
| Made like the big, bad wolf | PUFFED |
| Middlin' | SOSO |
| Muscular strength | BRAWN |
| Parsley unit | SPRIG |
| Party manager, in Congress | WHIP |
| Pass, as time | ELAPSE |
| Per | EACH |
| Place for Reds and Browns | OHIO |
| Produced a new version | REMADE |
| Raging anger | FURY |
| Santa's sackful | TOYS |
| Savings plan abbr | IRA |
| Seize power illegally | USURP |
| Short newspaper notice | OBIT |
| Short stride | STEP |
| Side of a gem | FACET |
| Siouan shelter | TEPEE |
| Space start? | OUTER |
| Spot of land | ISLET |
| Stratagem | TACTIC |
| Tackle a mogul | SKI |
| They like the night life | OWLS |
| Tim Duncan, for one | SPUR |
| Top-notch | OFTHEFIRSTWATER |
| Type of 38-Across | ROTH |
| Univ. "house" | FRAT |
| Unravel, as rope fiber | FRAY |
| Voluntarily | OFYOUROWNACCORD |
| Watery "Cleopatra" setting | NILE |
| ___ acid (protein component) | AMINO |
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USA Today Solutions - May 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 26, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 26, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Balderdash!" | HOOEY |
| "East of ___" | EDEN |
| "If it's all the ___ to you . . ." | SAME |
| "The Lake ___ of Innisfree" | ISLE |
| "___ Ha'i" | BALI |
| A la ___ | CARTE |
| A metrical unit | IAMB |
| Ad that falls out of a newspaper | INSERT |
| Adjective for Baltimore's Harbor | INNER |
| Architect's small detail? | SPEC |
| Be just right, as for an event | SUITTHEOCCASION |
| Bedside companion, sometimes | NURSE |
| Beyond unusual | EERIE |
| Big party | GALA |
| Bring in from the wheat fields | REAP |
| Circle or final beginning | SEMI |
| Clear a blackboard | ERASE |
| Cold-cuts emporium | DELI |
| Collect | AMASS |
| Completed | DONE |
| Crazed way to run? | AMOK |
| Cruise ship | LINER |
| Cumberland or credibility | GAP |
| Downy duck | EIDER |
| Eaglet nursery | AERIE |
| Electrical resistance units | OHMS |
| European high points | ALPS |
| Feature of a tied shoelace | LOOP |
| Final result | UPSHOT |
| Fractions of a joule | ERGS |
| Frosty coating | HOAR |
| Gentleman caller | BEAU |
| Go over the hill? | AGE |
| Gridiron legend Lewis | RAY |
| Horse brake | REIN |
| House worker | MAID |
| In the thick of | AMID |
| It soars over shores | ERNE |
| It's unsmelted | ORE |
| James Brown had it | SOUL |
| Just sitting there | IDLE |
| Kind of rail or plane | MONO |
| Kolkata wrap | SARI |
| Land on Lake Victoria | UGANDA |
| Length X width | AREA |
| Like couch potatoes | INERT |
| Like some beaches | CLOTHESOPTIONAL |
| Literary category | GENRE |
| Long skirt | MIDI |
| Middle Eastern dish (var.) | PILAU |
| One of Santa's sleigh team | COMET |
| One past twelve? | TEEN |
| Oscar-winning Thompson | EMMA |
| Pandora released them, in myth | ILLS |
| Petty clash | SPAT |
| Pledge of fidelity | TROTH |
| Poetic time of day | MORN |
| Preminger or Klemperer | OTTO |
| Prospector's strike | LODE |
| Pudding coagulation | SKIN |
| Put a cap on | LIMIT |
| Ready to punch something | IRATE |
| Recessions | EBBS |
| Singles or doubles at Fenway | HITS |
| Sorted-laundry accumulations | PILES |
| Stupefy with drink | BESOT |
| Temporarily banishes hunger | EATS |
| They precede opening nights | DRESSREHEARSALS |
| Those on pedestals | IDOLS |
| Time of March madness? | IDES |
| Tired | OLDHAT |
| Tummy soother, briefly | BICARB |
| Walloped | SMOTE |
| Willow for wickerwork | OSIER |
| Wish things otherwise | RUE |
| Word before "Blastoff!" | ONE |
| Word of qualification | UNLESS |
| Worrier's risk, it's said | ULCER |
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USA Today Solutions - May 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 25, 2014
USA Today Crossword Solutions - May 25, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Great" dog | DANE |
| "The Little Mermaid" lyricist Howard | ASHMAN |
| "Two Mules for Sister ___" (Eastwood classic) | SARA |
| Agrees quietly | NODS |
| Alto woodwind | OBOE |
| Avails oneself of | USES |
| Barbecue nugget | COAL |
| Be quarters for | HOUSE |
| Beneath | UNDER |
| Bluebird's residence | NEST |
| Brief life story | BIO |
| Calendar periods | YEARS |
| Certain Arabian Sea native | OMANI |
| Certain music genre | RAP |
| Cheese option | BRIE |
| Clean vigorously | SCRUB |
| Clumsy one | OAF |
| Comeback candidate | HASBEEN |
| Conciliatory bribe | SOP |
| Country bumpkin | RUBE |
| Debussy's "La ___" | MER |
| Deployment for a '60s GI | NAM |
| Deuce or trey | CARD |
| Exams and such | TESTS |
| Extremely brief acceptance speech? | YES |
| Fail to keep up the pace | LAG |
| Fess up | ADMIT |
| Get ready to fire | AIM |
| Had a formal meal | DINED |
| Have an edge against | ABUT |
| Horn-shaped structure | CORNU |
| Ideally | ATBEST |
| Jannings with an Oscar | EMIL |
| Jug for the upper class | EWER |
| Kind of node or gland | LYMPH |
| Lahr of "The Wizard of Oz" | BERT |
| Lennon's wife | ONO |
| Luge utilizer | SLEDDER |
| Make indirect reference | ALLUDE |
| Medicinal plant from Africa | ALOE |
| Most of the kids in a classic game | HIDERS |
| Myrna of old Hollywood | LOY |
| No longer waiting on the pier | ABOARD |
| Nothing more than | ONLY |
| One who doesn't get out much | SHUTIN |
| One who's against | ANTI |
| Palomino pen | CORRAL |
| Part of a steamship | BOILERROOM |
| Part of an email address | DOT |
| Physiques, informally | BODS |
| Place for a family meal | DININGROOM |
| Place west of Nod | EDEN |
| Remove, as a tangle | COMBOUT |
| Rep.'s counterpart | DEM |
| Ride a sailboard | WINDSURF |
| Served as manager of | RAN |
| Soldier's ornamental shoulder piece | EPAULET |
| Spending restraints | LIDS |
| SpongeBob's home | SEA |
| Sprinkle with drops of water | BEDEW |
| State VIP | GOV |
| Student-focused org | PTA |
| Suddenly seize | NAB |
| Surface for roads and roofs | TAR |
| Symphonic form | RHAPSODY |
| Takes the picture | SHOOTS |
| Temperature taker | NURSE |
| Tennyson's "Geraint and ___" | ENID |
| Tenth Hebrew letter | YOD |
| Valuable mine material | ORE |
| Vigilantly attentive | ALERT |
| Volcano that devastated Catania | ETNA |
| Wart giver, in old wives' tales | TOAD |
| What the newlywed suite has? | ROOMFORTWO |
| What this puzzle's theme has? | ROOMFOREVERYONE |
| Wolf describer, sometimes | LONE |
| You'll get one when checking in | ROOMNUMBER |
| ___-whiz | GEE |
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