Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Sunday December 20, 2020.
‘A cat has nine ___’ – LIVES
‘Dynamite’ K-pop band – BTS
‘How dreadful!’ – OHDEAR
‘How should I know?’ – DONTASKME
‘I Am Not My Hair’ singer – INDIAARIE
‘In my dreams!’ – IWISH
‘Little’ shepherd who lost her sheep – BOPEEP
‘The Rider’ contest – RODEO
‘Watch your ___!’ – STEP
‘___ Malala’ (Yousafzai autobiography) – IAM
Age – ERA
Alternative to Al, perhaps – FRED
As a whole – INALL
Baby kangaroo – JOEY
Bother incessantly – NAGAT
Business magazine – INC
Car, in Chinese – CHE
Carry-on item – BAG
Cheek streamer – TEAR
City in Ukraine or Texas – ODESSA
Clear condensation from – DEFOG
Compliant – DOCILE
Concocted – MADE
Construction zone marker – CONE
Creek croakers – TOADS
Daily grind – RUT
Dolphin relative – ORCA
Doyo no Ushi no Hi fishes – EELS
Drink in a stein – BEER
Drove with a lead foot – SPED
Eve’s second son – ABEL
Fashion expert on ‘Queer Eye’ – TANFRANCE
Food item similar to gim – NORI
Foreshadow – BODE
Fragrant purple bloom – LILAC
Go way beyond ripe – ROT
Golf item invented by George Franklin Grant – TEE
Guiding values of a community – ETHOS
Harder to find – RARER
Hawaiian island with no traffic lights – LANAI
Humbled oneself – ATEDIRT
Knockoff – FAKE
Laborious job – SLOG
Like some gases – INERT
Mammals who love crabs – OTTERS
Mexican painter Kahlo – FRIDA
Moments ___ – AGO
More rigid – STIFFER
Nat ___ Wild – GEO
Noh segment – ACT
Org. with a Sixth Man of the Year Award – NBA
Origami, e.g – ART
Painter who said ‘To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time’ – GEORGIAOKEEFFE
Paperless birthday greetings – ECARDS
Part of a toddler’s night routine – BATH
Poem of admiration – ODE
Prep for print – EDIT
Quick-tempered – HOTHEADED
Rachel Chu, for Constance Wu – ROLE
Remark to the audience – ASIDE
Rhinestone’s sides – FACETS
Sealy alternative – SERTA
Seek the affections of – WOO
Service charge – FEE
Sheepdog’s greeting – ARF
Spray paint holder – CAN
Spy org. in ‘The Americans’ – KGB
Stabilizing muscles – ABS
Stick like glue – ADHERE
Streaming delay – LAG
Sum again – READD
Tenor saxophonist with the 1960 album ‘Spellbound’ – CLIFFORDJORDAN
Thumbs-down vote – NAY
Twenty-ounce Starbucks order – VENTI
Welded together – FUSED
Yoga pad – MAT
___-country – ALT
___-repeated – OFT
