USA Today Friday - Sep 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 USA Today Friday Puzzle  - September 4 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'13th' director DuVernay	AVA
'First Lady of Song' Fitzgerald	ELLA
'Is that so?'	OHREALLY
'It looks safe!'	THECOASTISCLEAR
'It would behoove you to be less antagonistic'	DONTPOKETHEBEAR
'It's retro, but in a bad way'	THATSSOLASTYEAR
'La ___ Bonita' (Madonna song)	ISLA
'Tell Mama' singer James	ETTA
'Wide Sargasso ___' (Jean Rhys novel)	SEA
'___ Is Us'	THIS
Against	ANTI
Allows	LETS
Apiece	EACH
Architect I.M	PEI
Banh mi spread	PATE
Barista creation	LATTE
Bat mitzvah, for one	RITE
Beeches and banyans	TREES
Behavior that might prompt someone to yell 'Get a room!'	PDA
Case of the ___ (discontented feeling)	BLAHS
Charged particles	IONS
Closed	SHUT
Collective word	OUR
Competitor of Blue Cross Blue Shield	AETNA
Cyclist's place on the road	BIKELANE
Dawn direction	EAST
Debt metaphor	HOLE
Deck furniture wood	TEAK
Design detail, for short	SPEC
Destiny's Child or the Supremes, for example	POPTRIO
Engraves	ETCHES
French for 'milk'	LAIT
Frequently misspelled contraction	THEYRE
Goes out with	SEES
Greets	HAILS
Home of the Bruins	UCLA
Honorific in Hialeah	SENOR
Hoppy brew letters	IPA
Hospital parts, for short	ERS
Ingredient in bhindi masala	OKRA
Insect that sounds like family	ANT
Judgy sound	TSK
Least polluted	PUREST
Made a rip in	TORE
Marge Simpson's is blue	HAIR
Meetup, slangily	SESH
Outdoes	BESTS
Pang	THROE
Pincer, e.g	CLAW
Prof's aides	TAS
Public spat	SCENE
Regions	AREAS
River through Khartoum and Cairo	NILE
Room with a retractable ladder, often	ATTIC
Scenic view	VISTA
Sender of invites	HOST
Serving dishes for soups	TUREENS
Sewing line	SEAM
Shaving mishaps	NICKS
Sheet fabric	SATIN
Singer Clark, aka St. Vincent	ANNIE
Sirius or Betelgeuse	STAR
Spanish for 'milk'	LECHE
Speak at a podium, say	ORATE
Stops breastfeeding	WEANS
Tax org	IRS
Time periods	ERAS
Tough instrument for movers to move	PIANO
Unsettling	EERIE
Unsubtle verbal nudge	HINTHINT
Village People hit sung at many sporting events	YMCA
Vow	OATH
Where Birmingham and Atlanta are located	THESOUTH
Word after 'tongue' or 'twist'	TIE
___ Leone	SIERRA
___ Speedwagon	REO