Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Saturday December 12, 2020.
‘Coming Out of the ___’ (Gloria Estefan hit) – DARK
‘Delish!’ – YUM
‘There’s a traitor in our ___!’ – MIDST
‘___ So Fine’ (Chiffons hit) – HES
4.0 for a straight-A student, e.g – GPA
Accessory for some comics – PROP
Acting royalty whose first and last names are both royalty-related – REGINAKING
Actress Mansour – ALEXA
Agenda point – ITEM
Barriers to some apologies – EGOS
Blue bin’s purpose – RECYCLING
Boundaries – EDGES
Bread ingredient – YEAST
Buddy – PAL
Come out of nowhere – APPEAR
Computer drive insert – CDROM
Cuatro mas cuatro – OCHO
Dance before graduation – PROM
Determinants of eye color – GENES
Donated – GAVE
Doris Burke channel – ESPN
Droop – SAG
Eden Sher’s role on ‘The Middle’ – SUE
Engineering detail, for short – SPEC
Event location – VENUE
Exclamation that’s a Midwest state without an ‘i’ – OHO
Family ___ night – GAME
Finger click – SNAP
From Dublin or Cork – IRISH
Front’s opposite – REAR
Geologic periods – ERAS
Got off the turnpike – EXITED
Have on – WEAR
Hit hard – RAM
Innocent – NAIVE
Island with Hawaii’s only interstates – OAHU
Left in awe – WOWED
Less common – RARER
Life skills class, informally – HOMEEC
Melody – TUNE
Moral opposites – RIGHTANDWRONG
Mother to piglets – SOW
Mother, in Spanish – MADRE
Noggin – HEAD
Not anti- – PRO
Not hugely – ABIT
November birthstone – TOPAZ
Opportunity to join a firefighter in a truck – RIDEALONG
Order ___ carte – ALA
Paper purchase – REAM
Pekingese, e.g – DOG
Place for a hot stone massage – SPA
Prefix meaning ‘new’ – NEO
Programming language with a coffee logo – JAVA
Pronoun paired with ‘she’ – HER
Rip – TEAR
Searching chaotically – RANSACKING
Sends with a stamp – MAILS
Sincronizada meat – HAM
Site with bidders – EBAY
Small-scale prefix – NANO
Snare – TRAP
Some British nobles – EARLS
Tennis champ Ivanovic – ANA
They may come from shelters – PETS
Threatens – MENACES
Took accountability – OWNEDIT
Tree from an acorn – OAK
Undefeated team’s loss total – ZERO
Unpleasantly surprised – JARRED
Welcome find in el desierto – AGUA
Went extra fast – RACED
What a hybrid car saves on – GAS
Wheel with cogs – GEAR
Wise person – SAGE
Witness – SEE
Word before ‘trick’ or ‘carpet’ – MAGIC
___ on the wrist – SLAP
