USA Today – Jan 18 2023
USA Today – Jan 18 2023
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘I agree!’ | YES |
| ‘I don’t ___ why not’ | SEE |
| ‘There’s no need to ___ the obvious’ | STATE |
| Arcade coins | TOKENS |
| Area on the outskirts of a city | SUBURBIA |
| ATL time zone | EST |
| Background actors | EXTRAS |
| Barbie’s boyfriend | KEN |
| Bigheadedness | EGO |
| Boom’s opposite | BUST |
| Cast-___ skillet | IRON |
| Chile-to-Argentina direction | EAST |
| Colombo, Sri ___ | LANKA |
| Colorful play areas for kids | BALLPITS |
| Confidentiality document | NDA |
| Costume with a big red nose | CLOWN |
| Coup d’___ | ETAT |
| Cracker with 13 holes | SALTINE |
| Creamy orange dish with chicken or paneer | TIKKAMASALA |
| Cried | WEPT |
| Criticize harshly | ATTACK |
| Decisive defeat | ROUT |
| Degree for an exec | MBA |
| Desperate request | PLEA |
| Establishment with a liquor license | BAR |
| Faucet | TAP |
| Follow an order | OBEY |
| Former NBA star Ming | YAO |
| Garment for a messy meal | BIB |
| Gen Z, millennials, Gen X, ___ | BOOMERS |
| Had a chat | TALKED |
| ID no. with two hyphens | SSN |
| Incoming plane stats | ETAS |
| Instructions part | STEP |
| Korean fried rice | BOKKEUMBAP |
| Leg joint | KNEE |
| Leopold’s butcher shop purchase in ‘Ulysses’ | PORKKIDNEY |
| Liquid from boiling greens | POTLIKKER |
| Makes a choice | OPTS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Marbled Chinese snack | TEAEGG |
| Martial art that originated in Okinawa | KARATE |
| Medication amount | DOSE |
| Mull over | PONDER |
| Org. that monitors air quality | EPA |
| Part of a fast-food combo | SODA |
| Places for septum rings | NOSES |
| Pollinating insect | BEE |
| Poses a question | ASKS |
| Private teacher’s student | TUTEE |
| Property re-rental | SUBLEASE |
| Puts in a particular order | SORTS |
| Record companies | LABELS |
| Rocks containing valuable minerals | ORES |
| Sculptures, stained glass, etc | ART |
| Sharp-tipped missile in a pub game | DART |
| Shells out cash | SPENDS |
| Singer Lennox | ARI |
| Somewhat | KINDASORTA |
| Sonic the Hedgehog company | SEGA |
| Southern ___ Indian Reservation, Colorado | UTE |
| Spanish for ‘gold’ | ORO |
| Spoken | ORAL |
| Stitch | SEW |
| Sunflower Showdown school, for short | KSU |
| Svalbard’s country | NORWAY |
| Tahoe or Titicaca | LAKE |
| Tempe school, for short | ASU |
| Thing to do | TASK |
| Tolerate | STAND |
| Turkey ___ (Thanksgiving race) | TROT |
| Unadorned | BARE |
| Vital | KEY |
| Water-resistant wood | TEAK |
| What to do to a forgotten password | RESET |
| Woodcutting tool | AXE |
| ___ and outs | INS |
| ___ chi | TAI |
| ___-Caps (candy) | SNO |