Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Thursday October 29, 2020.
‘Gotcha!’ – AHA
‘I’ll take that as ___’ – ANO
‘Sesame Street’ grouch – OSCAR
‘That sticks in my ___’ – CRAW
‘The nerve!’ – RUDE
‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ author – MURIELSPARK
‘This is bad!’ – OHNO
‘Um, if you say so . . .’ – WELLOK
‘___ beaucoup’ – MERCI
Absence of sound – SILENCE
Acquire again – REGAIN
Act immorally – SIN
Akron’s state – OHIO
Antioxidant-rich berry – ACAI
At a simmer, say – ONLOW
Bird that symbolizes pacifism – DOVE
Cardboard discs in a ’90s fad – POGS
Chewy, fruit-flavored candy – STARBURST
Choose – OPT
Cohesive whole – UNIT
Collection – SET
Congressional assistant – AIDE
Coral conglomeration – REEF
Country with a cedar on its flag – LEBANON
Cried out like a calico – MEOWED
Dance along – GROOVE
Desire – WANT
Destiny’s Child, e.g – TRIO
Docking site – WHARF
Early programmer Lovelace – ADA
Electrophoresis medium or hair product – GEL
Find the place of – LOCATE
Form of some rabbit food – PELLETS
Free stuff at expos – SWAG
Freestyled or backstroked, maybe – SWAM
Glacial polar mass – ICECAP
Grows fond of – WARMSTO
High-pitched barks – YAPS
Historical period – ERA
Irritate – EATAT
Kiddo – TOT
Let the air out of – DEFLATE
Music holders stored in towers – CDS
New Hampshire town with a prep school – EXETER
Nonfiction film, for short – DOC
One of three in a haiku – LINE
Opposite of ‘adios’ – HOLA
Pieces of sponcon – ADS
Prefix for ‘tourism’ or ‘friendly’ – ECO
Price – COST
Radar dot – BLIP
Refresh your knowledge – BRUSHUP
Reliable choice – GOTO
Reproductive cells – OVA
Rhyme and synonym of ‘speck’ – FLECK
Salmon that sounds like hair – LOX
Sarcastic lead-in to something obvious – NEWSFLASH
Secretly includes on an email – BCCS
Siesta – NAP
Small bit of matter – ATOM
Sneaky ‘Hey!’ – PSST
Spicy – HOT
Strong gust – GALE
Sworn enemy – NEMESIS
Takes a plane – FLIES
Terse – CURT
The ___ Project (LGBTQ youth mental health organization) – TREVOR
Thoroughfare – ROAD
Tiered tower – PAGODA
Trading card game based on a manga – YUGIOH
Trick football play – FLEAFLICKER
Urkel’s first name – STEVE
Vena ___ (heart vessel) – CAVA
Was in Mountain Pose, perhaps – STOOD
Witnessed – SEEN
___ and bust – BOOM
___ Dumott Schunard (‘Rent’ character) – ANGEL
___ helmet (salakot relative) – PITH
