USA Today Monday Mar 22 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

USA Today Sunday - March 22 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
'Does that make sense?'	GETIT
'Good gracious!'	YEESH
'How clumsy of me!'	OOPS
'Ode to a Nightingale' poet John	KEATS
'Phooey!'	RATS
'The 21st century's author of adolescent evolution,' per Cyrena Touros	LORDE
'Troy' star Bana	ERIC
'___ help you?'	CANI
'___-Seed' (Atwood novel)	HAG
Aircraft emissions have a big one	CLIMATEIMPACT
Aloo ___	GOBI
Angry dog's sound	GRR
Beat a hasty retreat	FLEE
Besmirches	TARS
Big name in cooking oil	CRISCO
Bing or bang, e.g	NOISE
Bit of idle speculation	WILDGUESS
Blues singer ___ James	ETTA
Bracelet ornament	CHARM
Bring under control	TAME
Bulbiferous blooms	TULIPS
Carpet installer's measurement	FLOORAREA
Chunk of drift ice	FLOE
Classroom challenge	TEST
Computer device with blinking lights	MODEM
Contact by phone	CALL
Dead set against	ANTI
Deep mud	MIRE
Defensive wear	ARMOR
Digital camera insert	SDCARD
Distort	SKEW
Dorm bud	ROOMIE
Drug extracted from poppies	OPIUM
For ___ times' sake	OLD
Free File org	IRS
High-fiber bread	RYE
Home to the Heat	MIAMI
Howard with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame	RON
Illegal act that doesn't hurt anyone	VICTIMLESSCRIME
In a bit	SOON
Interventional cardiologist's insertion	STENT
Lacy mat	DOILY
Large amount of money	PILE
Line on a map	ROAD
Maternity ward event	BIRTH
Matures	AGES
Member of an ancient Andean empire	INCA
Member of the fam	SIS
Muddy enclosure	STY
New York hockey team, for short	ISLES
Palindromic magazine	ELLE
Peg for a drive	TEE
Person from Helsinki, say	FINN
Plankton's place	SEA
Pre-Easter period	LENT
Prefix meaning 'very'	UBER
Regarding	ASTO
San Jose resident	COSTARICAN
Santa checks it	LIST
Scheduling stat	ESTIMATEDTIME
Shades of color	TONES
Skating rink shape	OVAL
So last year	OUT
Sound of a spit take	PFFT
Source of solar power	SUN
Speak off the cuff	ADLIB
Statement that's a paradox	THISISALIE
Tiny speck	DOT
Took a nap	SLEPT
Touchscreen images	ICONS
Use bait on	TEMPT
Watering tubes	HOSES
Way up or down	STAIR
Where cold cuts are cut	DELI
Words before 'mode' or 'carte'	ALA
___ clean (confessed)	CAME