USA Today Crossword Answers - October 16, 2015
Clue | Answer |
". . . and make it fast!" | ASAP |
"Now, where ___ I?" | WAS |
"To the max" indicator | EST |
"___ to a Nightingale" | ODE |
Aesopian ending | MORAL |
Alan and Nathan | HALES |
Anchor-cable hole | HAWSE |
Automotive necessity | ENGINE |
Back muscle, in gym lingo | LAT |
Beat about | THRASH |
Blueprints | PLANS |
Bottomless pit | ABYSM |
Bustles | TODOS |
Caravan member | CAMEL |
Carders' requests | IDS |
Chills and fever | AGUE |
Clairvoyant's claim, in short | ESP |
Commits a blooper | ERRS |
Construction locale | SITE |
Country retreat | VILLA |
Detach | UNFIX |
Draped Indian garment | SARI |
Easy basket | LAYUP |
Extremely busy | SWAMPED |
Former chairman | MAO |
Frozen precipitation | HAIL |
Have an itch for | WANT |
Humiliate | ABASE |
Initial assault | ONSET |
It's inclined to give shelter? | LEANTO |
Kingsley novel "Two Years ___" | AGO |
Levi's competitor | LEE |
Like Hans' duckling | UGLY |
Main artery from heart | AORTA |
Make an outline of | TRACE |
Many a download | APP |
Miner's way out | ADIT |
Mont Blanc or Matterhorn | ALP |
Mousse, for one | GEL |
Neighborhood food shop | DELI |
Nigeria's principal city | LAGOS |
Nureyev performance | BALLET |
O'Neill trees | ELMS |
On the hefty side | PLUMP |
Orchestra instruments | FLUTES |
Partner of green eggs | HAM |
Pertaining to the kidneys | RENAL |
Place known for cigars | CUBA |
Recently | OFLATE |
Record held by Pete Rose | MOSTGAMESPLAYED |
Refrain from singing? | TRALALA |
Remote marking | VOL |
Remove a coat lining, perhaps | UNZIP |
Request from one not yet satisfied | AGAIN |
Riddle using pictures | REBUS |
Rinse, as with a solvent | ELUTE |
River duck | EIDER |
Seductive sorts | FLIRTS |
Sharp mountain ridge | ARETE |
Shutout team's score | NIL |
Snaillike gastropods | SLUGS |
Speak boastfully | VAUNT |
Street map | PLAT |
Study for a lawyer | CASE |
Talk-show group | PANEL |
Tennis ball stopper | NET |
The Bible's 150 | PSALMS |
Tiny pasta | ORZO |
Tumultuous sit-down | PLOP |
Type of wheat | SPELT |
Undergrad degs | BAS |
Underworld river | STYX |
Unnecessary extra | FRILL |
What a clue provides | SOMETHINGTOGOON |
What hopeless romantics do? | ANYTHINGFORLOVE |
Windows worker | USER |
www.usatoday.com, e.g | URL |
___ over (assisted through difficulty) | TIDED |