USA Today Crossword Answers - August 23, 2015
| Clue | Answer |
| "Dear old" guy | DAD |
| "Hold it!" | WHOA |
| "The Little Sparrow" Edith | PIAF |
| Actor Lugosi | BELA |
| Actor Morgan | FREEMAN |
| Agitated state | SNIT |
| Alum | GRAD |
| At full speed | AMAIN |
| Atlanta-based airline | DELTA |
| Bit of sun | RAY |
| Boat landing | SHORE |
| Burn the surface of | SEAR |
| Carpenter's tool | LEVEL |
| Center of a hurricane | EYE |
| Certain sailboat | CATAMARAN |
| Change the wallpaper, e.g | REDO |
| Church feature | APSE |
| Clobber | DECK |
| Colorful coin | ONEREDCENT |
| Colorful go-ahead | GREENLIGHT |
| Colorful intelligence | GRAYMATTER |
| Colorful outcast | BLACKSHEEP |
| Communication means at sea | SEMAPHORE |
| Counted calories | DIETED |
| Country moms | MAS |
| Court divider | NET |
| Cultural | ETHNIC |
| Darn | SEW |
| Divided | SEPARATED |
| Domicile | ABODE |
| Drawing Soc. Sec., probably | RETD |
| Drive-thru customer | ORDERER |
| Driver's aid? | TEE |
| Elliptical | OVAL |
| Facilities | AREAS |
| Freshly made | NEW |
| Ghostly figure | WRAITH |
| Hit the bottle | TOPE |
| Hunted forest creature | ELK |
| Innsbruck's locale | TYROL |
| It blows its stack in Sicily | ETNA |
| It may have a fork in it | ROAD |
| Itinerary | ROUTE |
| Jonas of vaccines | SALK |
| Keep under wraps | SECRETE |
| Kitchen professional | CHEF |
| Kong's other half? | HONG |
| Major commotions | ADOS |
| Many-headed mythical monsters | HYDRAS |
| Memorizing method | ROTE |
| Mine entrance | ADIT |
| Nevada city | RENO |
| New newts | EFTS |
| Part of a prescription | DOSE |
| Peach or beech | TREE |
| Planet eighth-nearest to the sun | NEPTUNE |
| Play area | STAGE |
| Potential tennis opponent? | ANYONE |
| Pottery fragments | SHARDS |
| Priestly garb | ALBS |
| Remove branches | LOP |
| Requirements | NEEDS |
| Sink alternative | SWIM |
| Sleep problem | APNEA |
| Snitch or snitcher | RAT |
| Some offices require it | OATH |
| Soon, to a bard | ANON |
| St. Louis pro | RAM |
| Stretches out | ELONGATES |
| Suffix with "benz" | ENE |
| Supplement | ADDTO |
| Thunderous sound | PEAL |
| Top of the heap | ACME |
| Understood | GOT |
| Voting "no" | ANTI |
| Where many became vets | NAM |
| Wool sources | EWES |
| X, on monuments | TEN |