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 |