USA Today Crossword Answers - August 21, 2015
Clue | Answer |
"Black Beauty" novelist Sewell | ANNA |
"Don't clap yet" | HOLDTHEAPPLAUSE |
"To ___ is human . . ." | ERR |
Adventurous tale | SAGA |
Assortment | OLIO |
Attentive way to look? | ALIVE |
Be a snitch | TELL |
Be as good as new? | HEAL |
Be in the best possible position | HOLDALLTHECARDS |
Beelike | APIAN |
Belafonte or Lewis | SHARI |
Best for the job | ABLEST |
Blissful garden | EDEN |
Blunted blade | EPEE |
Bowler's headache | SPLIT |
Camelot, to Arthur | REALM |
Campaigner, for short | POL |
Capital of Rhone | LYONS |
Certain IRS deduction | HEADOFHOUSEHOLD |
Charge | FEE |
Chocolate sources | CACAOS |
Coins of India | RUPEES |
College military org | ROTC |
Comfortably familiar | HOMEY |
Completely reverse | UNDO |
Comply with | OBEY |
Confirm a minister | ORDAIN |
Crescent point | CUSP |
Do more than merely fly | SOAR |
Dutch South African | BOER |
Earthquake line | FAULT |
Emulate a beaver | GNAW |
Eve's eldest | CAIN |
Every mailperson has one | ROUTE |
Fissile rock | SHALE |
Fleur-de-___ (Quebec symbol) | LIS |
Grade elevator | PLUS |
Great landmass | ASIA |
Hard to pin down | EELY |
IRA type | ROTH |
Isle with a lagoon | ATOLL |
It can help you join? | COLDWELD |
It may be continuous and dull | ACHE |
Kind of force or strength | BRUTE |
Knife feature | EDGE |
Like some milk | WHOLE |
Like some remarks | SNIDE |
Make sharper | HONE |
Margarine | OLEO |
Mexican stew | OLLA |
Monthly bill for many | CABLE |
Moon's circuit | ORBIT |
Name on many jeans | LEVI |
Narrow wood strip | LATH |
North Dakota's largest city | FARGO |
Open carriage | SHAY |
Pinocchio, infamously | LIAR |
Pitcher in a picture | EWER |
Place for some salespeople | CARLOT |
Pond buildup | ALGAE |
Pudding fruit | PLUM |
Register part | TILL |
Right angle | ELL |
Roll of stamps | COIL |
Romantic interlude (var.) | IDYL |
Set ___ for (try to snare) | ATRAP |
Sounds of pleasure | AHS |
Take a piece from? | UNARM |
The "O" in SRO | ONLY |
They crave an early release | HOSTAGES |
Tighten, in a way | RESEAL |
Water park feature | CHUTE |
Watered, as a sidewalk | HOSED |
Weird, in a spooky way | EERIE |
Window box bloom | PANSY |
___ polloi | HOI |