USA Today Wednesday - Oct 7 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 USA Today Wednesday Puzzle - October 7 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'As a matter of ___ . . .'	FACT
'Get lost, fly!'	SHOO
'Hurry up!' in a car	STEPONIT
'I wanna see!'	SHOWME
'In memoriam' item, for short	OBIT
'Russian Ark' title	TSAR
'Take My Hand, Precious ___'	LORD
'Tall Girl' star Michelle	AVA
Artist ___ Kwame Kye Quaicoe	OTIS
Band worn diagonally	SASH
Bedtime performances	STORIES
Blessing that's right on time	BOON
Blood drive quantities (Abbr.)	PTS
Car buyer's activity	TESTDRIVING
Chinese for 'wind'	FENG
Competitor of Budget	ALAMO
Cup Noodles instruction	STIR
Curved-beaked wader	IBIS
Enthusiastic	AVID
Esther Duflo's subject, for short	ECON
Ethnic group in Rwanda	HUTU
Figure on a sales slip	TAX
Fries or potato salad, e.g	SIDE
Get-together, for short	SESH
Hazardous precipitation	SLEET
High-pH compound	BASE
Homeric epic	ILIAD
Kiddie-lit elephant	BABAR
Lab bottle	VIAL
Leaks slowly	SEEPS
Less cordial	ICIER
Like small chances	SLIM
Like sweepstakes drawings	RANDOM
Low-pH compounds	ACIDS
Lunge counts	REPS
Male bighorn	RAM
Mammal whose males bugle	ELK
Missing links	GAPS
Most August births	LEOS
Not oblivious	AWARE
Nourishes	FEEDS
Open house organizer	REALTOR
Paper fan fold	PLEAT
Pass over	SKIP
Post-judo woe	ACHE
Prefix for 'biography'	AUTO
Prefix for 'circle'	SEMI
Problems	ILLS
Protagonist of Raven Leilani's 'Luster'	EDIE
Put forth	EXERT
Quick comedy bit	SKIT
Rescuer	SAVIOR
Restaurant bills	TABS
School fundraiser grps	PTAS
Scold	TAKETOTASK
Sewer entrance	MANHOLE
Shakespearean king	LEAR
Sheet of glass in a door	PANE
Singer Lennox	ARI
Some casual shirts	POLOS
Soundless excerpt from a TV show, perhaps	GIF
Source of sticker shock	PRICETAG
Stop by	VISIT
Strong	POTENT
Sty residents	PIGS
Take a load off	REST
Tamal wrapper	HUSK
Tapas bar beverage	SANGRIA
The 'D' in CD	DISC
Third-smallest of Hawaii's main islands	LANAI
Tibetan monks	LAMAS
Time spent with others	SOCIALLIFE
Unaccounted for	AWOL
Unpleasant person	PIECEOFWORK
Unpleasant person	SNOT
URL ending	ORG
___ and forth	BACK
___ Gardens, Florida	MIAMI