USA Today - Oct 18 2022 Crossword Puzzle solutions

 USA Today - Oct 18 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'Charlie's Angels' actress Cameron	DIAZ
'Daring Greatly' author Brown	BRENE
'Fire Island' actor/screenwriter	JOELKIMBOOSTER
'For Whom the Bell ___'	TOLLS
'Isn't it perfect?'	WHATSNOTTOLOVE
'It's ___ vu all over again' (Yogi Berra quote)	DEJA
'RuPaul's Drag Race UK' channel	BBC
'Star Wars'' princess	LEIA
'Uh-huh!'	YEP
'What a relief!'	PHEW
401(k) alternative	IRA
Adds employees	HIRES
Ambition	DRIVE
Author Roberts	NORA
Bad to the ___	BONE
Beyond conventional thinking	OUTSIDETHEBOX
Biblical garden	EDEN
Blend	MELD
Brainy	NERDY
Brewery products	ALES
Celebrity chef Lin	MEI
Cheerios grain	OAT
Chillaxed	LAZED
Core muscles	ABS
Creature in many fantasy games	ORC
Dentist's request	OPENWIDE
Drag queen's trait	SASS
End of seven country names	STAN
Facial hair styling product	BEARDWAX
Food item that starts and ends with the same letter	OREO
Furious	MAD
Genetic strand	RNA
H.S. exams	APS
Historical period	ERA
ID no. on tax forms	SSN
Inescapably catchy songs	EARWORMS
Just average	SOSO
Keep ___ on (monitor)	TABS
Labor Day ones are three days long	WEEKENDS
Lock unlockers	KEYS
Lumber-cutting tool	SAW
Mexican currency	PESO
NBC sketch show	SNL
Not currently active	IDLE
Not well-lit	DIM
Outback bird	EMU
Parent's brother	UNCLE
Peel-off beauty product	MASK
Pepper grinders	MILLS
Places for cubs	DENS
Poetry competition	SLAM
Punctuation mark next to M on a keyboard	COMMA
Radio City, for example	MUSICHALL
Screws up	ERRS
Secondary identities	ALTEREGOS
Shapes resembling stretched circles	OVALS
Sole	LONE
Source of sheep's milk	EWE
Space between two things	GAP
Spine-chillingly weird	EERIE
Suffix meaning 'kinda'	ISH
Surgery prep area, for short	PREOP
Test the flavor of	TASTE
The ___ Project (pretrial support group)	BAIL
They're shorter than LPs	EPS
Tik___	TOK
Tuna cut	STEAK
Type of race with batons	RELAY
United ___ Emirates	ARAB
Wager	BET
Wedding phrase	IDO
What grams measure	MASS
Wicked	EVIL
Word after 'ice' or 'Sno-'	CAPS
Zodiac animal after the Pig	RAT
___ and crafts	ARTS
___ and zeroes	ONES
___ of expertise	AREA