USA Today Sunday - Oct 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 USA Today Sunday Puzzle  - October 4 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'Moonlight ___' (Beethoven piece)	SONATA
'Plus . . .'	ALSO, AND
'That was quite a ___/Very entertaining' (Rihanna)	SHOW
'The nerve!'	HOWRUDE
'___ She Lovely'	ISNT
19-Across, e.g	ARTIST
2011 film starring Adepero Oduye	PARIAH
3:1, for example	RATIO
Actress Patton	PAULA
Assimilate	BLENDIN
Authors' promotions	BOOKTOURS
Bills for drinks	BARTABS
Chance for 54-Down	ATBAT
Channel with NBA games	TNT
Checks for bugs	BETATESTS
China cabinet collection	TEASET
Clique	INGROUP
Completely dominate	OWN
CVS-owned health care company	AETNA
Dietary unit, for short	CARB
Directive to a band	HITIT
Dominican Republic currency	PESO
Egg dishes	OMELETS
Egyptian boy king	TUT
Flight board figs	ETAS
Form a partnership	TEAMUP
Fortitude	GRIT
Fresh from the shower	CLEAN
Golf org	USGA
Good things to give delivery drivers	BIGTIPS
Gradually subside	EBB
Jr. ___-Man	PAC
Jump from gig to gig	JOBHOP
Less loose	TENSER
Letter before lambda	KAPPA
Marine biologist's focus	SEA
More expansive	BROADER
Neighbor of Yemen	OMAN
Nine-digit ID	SSN
Noodle often served with mentsuyu	SOBA
Novelist Gerritsen	TESS
Opera segment	ACT
Org. with auditors	IRS
Painter referenced by the Mickalene Thomas work 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires'	MANET
Peter Parker, e.g	NERD
Praise-filled poems	ODES
Prefix for a genre	ALT
Purse	BAG
Quinoa, e.g	CROP
Restaurant containers	BUSTUBS
Roller derby players	SKATERS
Running pace	JOG
Saleswoman played by Stephanie Courtney	FLO
Singer Rita whose surname means 'time' in Albanian	ORA
Sister brand of Bentley	AUDI
Slow-cooker meal	STEW
Solitary	LONE
Source of chocolaty nibs	CACAO
Stats for batters	RBIS
Storybook contents	TALES
Surname that sounds like 22-Down	CAAN
Surplus	GLUT
Swindle	CON
Take the bait	BITE
Take the top off of	UNCAP
The Grand Canyon State, on scoreboards	ARI
The ___ College	ELECTORAL
The ___ Stone	ROSETTA
Throw forcefully	HURL
Tip of a sock	TOE
Trail mix bit	RAISIN
Tunes out	IGNORES
Was fond of	LIKED
What shears do	CUT
Word after 'sweet' or 'split'	PEA
___ noir	PINOT
___ through (searches)	SIFTS