January 27 2018 - USA Today Crossword Answers
Clues | Answers |
"Battle Cry" author | URIS |
"Essays of ___" (Lamb work) | ELIA |
"I agree completely" | SOTRUE |
"___ declare!" | IDO |
APR part | RATE |
Arboretum specimen | TREE |
Arid, like much of Africa | SAHARAN |
Aussie bounders | ROOS |
Basketball's Thurmond or Archibald | NATE |
Be 34-Down | ACHE |
Blow the socks off | AMAZE |
Caught on, with "up" | WISED |
Cause an unearned run, perhaps | ERR |
Cheerful ditty | LILT |
Circus safeguard | NET |
Classic Volkswagen | BEETLE |
Cookie with a Cookies & Creme variety | OREO |
Created a crisis for oneself | GOTINTOHOTWATER |
Cub Scout groups | DENS |
Deliver a keynote | ORATE |
Down-on-one's-luck sort | LOSER |
Dull as dishwater | BLAH |
Fan club favorite | IDOL |
Feel out of sorts | AIL |
First-down yardage measurer | CHAIN |
From square one | ANEW |
Gin-and-tonic garnish | LIME |
Google search results | HITS |
Great Plains tribe | OSAGE |
Gun named for its inventor | UZI |
Hardware and software pros | TECHS |
Hold back, as emotions | INHIBIT |
Honeycomb division | CELL |
Hornets' home | NEST |
In need of a rubdown | SORE |
Invited disaster | SKATEDONTHINICE |
Jared of "Suicide Squad" | LETO |
Jump bail, say | FLEE |
King whose tomb was discovered in 1922, for short | TUT |
Like children's cereals | SWEET |
Likely to catch on quickly | APT |
Little piggy's cry, when tripled | WEE |
Long-tongued comics canine | ODIE |
Lower, as a hem | ALTER |
Miss America accessory | SASH |
Muscular Japanese dogs | AKITAS |
Nest egg option | ROTHIRA |
Nimble-fingered | DEFT |
No longer ill | CURED |
Nutty as a fruitcake | WACKO |
O. Henry's "The Gift of the ___" | MAGI |
One served by 66-Across | USER |
Partner of red beans | RICE |
Perform in a skit | ACT |
Place for a piercing | LOBE |
Place for an electronic bracelet | ANKLE |
President before Jack | IKE |
Put through a sieve | SIFT |
Qatar or Kuwait | EMIRATE |
Railway structure | TRESTLE |
Rain cats and dogs | TEEM |
Ran like the dickens | TORE |
Realtors' listings | HOMES |
Release one's pent-up emotions | LETOFFSOMESTEAM |
Response to "Are you hurt?" | IMOK |
Retort to "Ain't!" | ISTOO |
Rightmost bowling pin | TEN |
Running on ___ (very low on gas) | FUMES |
Send to the salt mines | EXILE |
Show starring Mr. T, with "the" | ATEAM |
Six-shooter name | COLT |
Swellheads' problems | EGOS |
Telegram punctuation | STOP |
Tool for Paul Bunyan | AXE |
Unit of time or latitude | MINUTE |
Von Bismarck of Prussia | OTTO |
Working away | ATIT |
___ of matter (something indirectly referenced in 17-, 38- and 62-Across) | STATE |