USA Today Thursday May 14 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

USA Today Thursday Puzzle - May 14 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'Back in Black' band	ACDC
'Electric Avenue' singer Grant	EDDY
'If I Were a ___' (Beyonce hit)	BOY
'Movies (And Other Things)' author Serrano	SHEA
'So You Want to Be a Wizard' author ___ Duane	DIANE
'That was a wise decision'	SMARTMOVE
'The language of the unheard,' per MLK	RIOT
'You should have just sat there and ___ your food' (Pollard)	ATE
34-Across pattern	TREAD
Absolutely love	ADORE
Be feverish	RUNATEMPERATURE
Become less frozen	THAW
Big primates	APES
Bit of progress, metaphorically	DENT
Calculate a total	ADD
Canvas holder	EASEL
Chilly powder	SNOW
Complete collections	SETS
Computer whiz	HACKER, TECHIE
Computer-controlled mode	AUTO
Cross the threshold	ENTER
Cylindrical pasta	PENNE
Damaging precipitation	HAIL
Dealt with adversity	COPED
Don't take off	STAY
DVD player button	EJECT
Fancy neckties	ASCOTS
Female pig	SOW
Field trip vehicle	BUS
Flee	HEADFORTHEHILLS
Folktales and such	LORE
Form an alliance	UNITE
Geologic units of time	ERAS
Hit the big leagues	GOPRO
Hockey puck shape	DISC
Hunt for bargains	SHOP
Initial poker stake	ANTE
International treaty	PACT
Let your feelings show	EMOTE
Like some cheeses	AGED
Like ___ of bricks	ATON
Long sandwich	HERO
Not even ajar	SHUT
Not just ajar	OPEN
OkCupid linkups	DATES
Paintballer's shout	IMHIT
Peevish mood	SNIT
Person in old Cuzco	INCA
Pickle containers	JARS
Place to buy bear claws	BAKERY
Place to luxuriate	SPA
Play it by ___	EAR
Points on a fork	TINES
Put in the mail	SEND
Red ___ paste	BEAN
Shortcoming	FAULT
Shrek's species	OGRE
Slipped up	ERRED
Some real estate transactions	CASHSALES
Source of a footprint	SOLE
Stared rudely at	OGLED
Suffix for a scandal	GATE
Supply the food	CATER
Swindle	CHEAT
Swindles	CONS
Taking out the trash, for one	CHORE
Teatime snack	SCONE
Texts to customers, e.g	DIRECTMARKETING
Two-word phrase hidden in 'double-talk'	ETAL
Twosome	DUO
Variety show lineup	ACTS
Via pen or stamp	ININK
Victim of a gardener's hoe	WEED
Word of great significance in Hawaiian culture	ALOHA
Word sung at Christmas	NOEL
Zig or zag	VEER
___ over (read carefully)	PORE