USA Today Crossword Answers - October 27, 2014
Clue | Answer |
". . . but ___ counting?" | WHOS |
"The Canterbury Tales" pilgrim | REEVE |
'40s jazz style | BEBOP |
757 heading, sometimes | ENE |
A space between objects or points | GAPS |
Adjust the piano | TUNE |
Ancient Persians | MEDES |
Antique-shop item | CURIO |
Appeared at county fairs, e.g | BARNSTORMED |
Apple or coconut cream ___ | PIE |
Artful deception | GUILE |
Balaam's mount | ASS |
Between 12 and 20 years old | TEENAGE |
Birthstones, e.g | GEMS |
By the clock? | TIMED |
Causes yawns | BORES |
Century plant, for one | AGAVE |
Classic TV family | NELSONS |
Clay brick | ADOBE |
Cleaning cabinet compounds, perhaps | LYES |
Common thing to i and j | DOT |
Commuters' train | LOCAL |
Computer programmer | CODER |
Cousin of a bittern | EGRET |
Damage slightly | MAR |
Descendant or heir | SCION |
Does without | FORGOES |
Dumb mistake | BONER |
Essential oil from flowers | ATTAR |
Fallopian tube traversers | OVA |
Family structure? | TREE |
Fertilizer from bats | GUANO |
Fill a turkey | STUFF |
Fork tooth | TINE |
Garden store offering | SOD |
Greek theaters of yore | ODEONS |
Harsh satire | LAMPOON |
Hawk's weapon | TALON |
Hemp or sisal, e.g | FIBER |
Highland headwear | TAM |
In the Land of Nod | ASLEEP |
It can give a bloke a buzz | ALE |
Like some beverage orders | MEDIUMSIZED |
Make accustomed | INURE |
Mean bull, at times | GORER |
Medicine chest door, often | MIRROR |
Member of the iris family | FREESIA |
Money of Romania | LEU |
Monotonous lifestyle | RUT |
Most reserved | COYEST |
Mournful poem | ELEGY |
Muddy ground | MIRE |
Not much | ABIT |
Noted convention site | GENEVA |
Olympic standout | MEDALWINNER |
Owner of a stud farm | BREEDER |
Part of a TV transmission | AUDIO |
Persian, e.g | RUG |
Piece of golf apparel | SHOE |
Pirate drink | GROG |
Request fervently | BEG |
Shiny, as a photo | GLOSSY |
Sides in some wars | GANGS |
Sleep stage, initially | REM |
Stump remover | TNT |
Supersized coffee pot | URN |
Things to crack | CODES |
Tolkien creature | ORC |
Unexpected blessing | BOON |
Used undue force | STRONGARMED |
Wee little guy | LAD |
What candles sometimes reveal | AGE |
When repeated, an island near Tahiti | BORA |
Wood-shaping implement | ADZ |
Word from Jack's giant | FIE |
Writer of 12-Down | POET |
___ at ease | ILL |
___ Rapids, Iowa | CEDAR |