USA Today - Jun 28 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 USA Today - Jun 28 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'A Little Devil in America' author Abdurraqib	HANIF
'Cars' animation studio	PIXAR
'However . . .'	YET
'Send help!'	SOS
'The Miseducation of ___ Hill'	LAURYN
'u got jokes!'	LOL
'Yadda, yadda, yadda,' for short	ETC
'___ kakou' (Hawaiian greeting)	ALOHA
401(k) alternative	IRA
Above, in old poems	OER
Alias letters	AKA
Apartment payment	RENT
Beauty brand with a Regenerist line	OLAY
Blurted out	SAID
Bounce bunny-style	HOP
Congresswoman Ilhan	OMAR
Cook in oil a second time	REFRY
Cookie Business badge earner	GIRLSCOUT
Course for some new U.S. residents	ENL
Crocheter's material	YARN
Cut like a lumberjack	CHOP
Cutesy version of 'love'	LUFF
Did taxes online	EFILED
Emphatic version of 'OK'	OKURR
Encountered	MET
Face-planted	ATEIT
Gallery opening, for example	ARTSHOW
George ___, pen name of Mary Ann Evans	ELIOT
Gets angry	SEESRED
Go downhill fast (literally)	SKI
Gold, in Spanish	ORO
Goose's noise	HONK
Habit-wearing sister	NUN
Hanky-___	PANKY
Hit a homer	GODEEP
In the know	AWARE
Kelsey Plum's Olympic team	USA
Knotless ___	PLAITS
Large primates	APES
Largest artery	AORTA
Mechanical dance move	ROBOT
Mine find	ORE
Miss Piggy or Dr. Bunsen Honeydew	MUPPET
Mum's mum	NAN
Name shared by Scary and Sporty Spice	MEL
One before Tue	MON
Paleozoic, Mesozoic and so on	ERAS
Patrick Mahomes scores (Abbr.)	TDS
Pieholes	KISSERS
Pinot noir, for example	WINE
Ready for picking	RIPE
Regular passenger boat	FERRY
Residents	LOCALS
Sans sparkle	DRAB
Scot's 'not'	NAE
Slippery as an ___	EEL
Smug smile	SMIRK
Snickers ___ (Midwestern potluck dish)	SALAD
Strike zone	BOWLINGALLEY
Strike zone	PICKETLINE
Strike zone	METEORCRATER
Substance symbolized by a skull and crossbones	POISON
Suffix for 'movie' or 'party'	GOER
Superlative suffix	EST
Surprisingly mature person	OLDSOUL
Take a ___ (make a risky bet)	FLIER
The Magic, on scoreboards	ORL
The ___ necessities	BARE
Three-vowel instrument	OBOE
Vehicles for ETs	UFOS
Wheel bar	AXLE
Word after 'sports' or 'training'	BRA
Young sheep	LAMB
___ and flows	EBBS
___ New Guinea	PAPUA
___ of voice	TONE
___ on the side of caution	ERR
___ Te Ching	TAO
___-Wan Kenobi	OBI