USA Today Friday - August 14 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 USA Today Friday Puzzle - Aug 14 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'I was afraid of this'	UHOH
'If all ___ fails . . .'	ELSE
'Lovecraft Country' channel	HBO
'The Hunger Games' setting	ARENA
'___ the night before Christmas . . .'	TWAS
'___'s Fables'	AESOP
Actress DeLaria	LEA
Airport org	TSA
Appears to be	SEEMS
Arbor Day planting	TREE
Badly behaved kid	BRAT
Bygone Russian ruler	TSAR
Checkout counter devices	BARCODESCANNERS
Chest muscles, for short	PECS
Circumvent a point of contention	SKIRTTHEISSUE
Colleagues of MDs	RNS
Collection of experts	PANEL
Comic Crutchfield	ABBI
Cutting remark	DIG
Detest	ABHOR, HATE
Driver's 180	UTURN
Driver's dropoff phrase	HEREWEARE
Engage in bickering	ARGUE
Falafel holders	PITAS
Forgets an email attachment, say	ERRS
Home to 'View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic'	VANGOGHMUSEUM
Item of lingerie	BRA
Itsy-bitsy	WEE
Knee-ankle connector	TIBIA
Lent a hand	AIDED
Less wordy	TERSER
License plates	TAGS
Like relatively few theatrical releases nowadays	RATEDG
List component	ITEM
Long-eared leaper	HARE
Looked-up-to person	IDOL
Major college paper	THESIS
Margin	EDGE
Medical show settings, for short	ERS
Mesmerizing painting style	OPART
Moon-related phenomena	TIDES
Noisy baby toy	RATTLE
Opera song	ARIA
Palindromic device	RADAR
Pampering treatment, for short	TLC
Peered at	EYED
Persuasive gift	BRIBE
Positive quality	ASSET, PLUS
Pothole's place	ROAD
River named for a Great Plains people	OSAGE
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Turner	TINA
Rope fiber	HEMP
School support grp	PTA
Seer's ability	ESP
Sharer's word	OUR
Singer Brickell	EDIE
Skin openings	PORES
Sleep phase acronym	REM
Slips and slides	SKIDS
Some family members, for short	SIBS
Spring bloom from a bulb	TULIP
Sprinter's assignment	LANE
Sunflower relative	ASTER
Take the wheel	STEER
Talks big	BRAGS
Tenant's contract	LEASE
Test for some college seniors	GRE
They go up and down in a skyscraper	ELEVATORS
Walked in the surf	WADED
Wedding suit wearer, perhaps	BRIDE
Wimbledon divisions	SETS
Windy City airport	OHARE
Word before 'Ghost' or 'Grail'	HOLY
Writer of verses	POET
___ bomb (fizzy relaxation aid)	BATH
___ King Cole	NAT