USA Today Crossword October 18 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• What a relief!
  PHEW
• Word after ice or Sno-
  CAPS
• Keep ___ on (monitor)
  TABS
• Ambition
  DRIVE
• Food item that starts and ends with the same letter
  OREO
• Brewery products
  ALES
• Spine-chillingly weird
  EERIE
• What grams measure
  MASS
• End of seven country names
  STAN
• Fire Island actor/screenwriter
  JOELKIMBOOSTER
• H.S. exams
  APS
• Historical period
  ERA
• Brainy
  NERDY
• Genetic strand
  RNA
• The ___ Project (pretrial support group)
  BAIL
• Source of sheep’s milk
  EWE
• Furious
  MAD
• Screws up
  ERRS
• Space between two things
  GAP
• Beyond conventional thinking
  OUTSIDETHEBOX
• They’re shorter than LPs
  EPS
• Places for cubs
  DENS
• Core muscles
  ABS
• Celebrity chef Lin
  MEI
• Bad to the ___
  BONE
• Creature in many fantasy games
  ORC
• Parent’s brother
  UNCLE
• Lumber-cutting tool
  SAW
• Tik___
  TOK
• Isn’t it perfect?
  WHATSNOTTOLOVE
• Charlie’s Angels actress Cameron
  DIAZ
• Sole
  LONE
• Type of race with batons
  RELAY
• Not currently active
  IDLE
• ___ of expertise
  AREA
• Pepper grinders
  MILLS
• Blend
  MELD
• Peel-off beauty product
  MASK
• Drag queen’s trait
  SASS

DOWN

• Surgery prep area for short
  PREOP
• Adds employees
  HIRES
• Wicked
  EVIL
• Labor Day ones are three days long
  WEEKENDS
• Punctuation mark next to M on a keyboard
  COMMA
• United ___ Emirates
  ARAB
• Mexican currency
  PESO
• Just average
  SOSO
• Test the flavor of
  TASTE
• Secondary identities
  ALTEREGOS
• Facial hair styling product
  BEARDWAX
• ID no. on tax forms
  SSN
• It’s ___ vu all over again (Yogi Berra quote)
  DEJA
• 401(k) alternative
  IRA
• NBC sketch show
  SNL
• Uh-huh!
  YEP
• Zodiac animal after the Pig
  RAT
• Daring Greatly author Brown
  BRENE
• ___ and crafts
  ARTS
• Suffix meaning kinda
  ISH
• Radio City for example
  MUSICHALL
• Biblical garden
  EDEN
• Dentist’s request
  OPENWIDE
• Wedding phrase
  IDO
• Inescapably catchy songs
  EARWORMS
• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK channel
  BBC
• Outback bird
  EMU
• Wager
  BET
• Cheerios grain
  OAT
• Chillaxed
  LAZED
• Tuna cut
  STEAK
• For Whom the Bell ___
  TOLLS
• Shapes resembling stretched circles
  OVALS
• Lock unlockers
  KEYS
• Poetry competition
  SLAM
• Author Roberts
  NORA
• ___ and zeroes
  ONES
• Star Wars” princess
  LEIA
• Not well-lit
  DIM