Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Thursday January 7, 2021.
‘Don’t ___ stranger!’ – BEA
‘If all ___ fails . . .’ – ELSE
‘My turn!’ – IMUP
‘Spring Day’ boy band – BTS
‘Strawberry Letter 23’ composer Shuggie – OTIS
‘This is a library!’ – SHH
1999 animated film about a huge robot – THEIRONGIANT
2020 movie set in La Brea – TAR
Apartment handyperson – SUPER
Apt rhyme for ‘fires’ – PYRES
Band together – UNITE
Bird that can recognize itself in a mirror – MAGPIE
Black-and-white equine – ZEBRA
Blue-footed ___ (bird) – BOOBY
Bouncers check them – IDS
Breakfast chain – IHOP
Brooklyn NBA team – NETS
Chapati flour – ATTA
Chinese arranging practice – FENGSHUI
City on the Sierra Nevada – RENO
Concur – AGREE
Credit union offering – LOAN
Crew – POSSE
Dance at Hilo’s Merrie Monarch Festival – HULA
Declare invalid – ANNUL
Designer whose creations might be controlled with strings – PUPPETMAKER
Device that’s fed quarters – METER
Electioneering at a taqueria, perhaps – HISPANDERING
Enclosure for swine – STY
Even-handed – FAIR
Excessive admiration – HEROWORSHIP
Excommunicate – EXILE
Fury – IRE
H.S. class that deals with cells – APBIO
Homegirl, in Honduras – AMIGA
In an emotionless manner – STONILY
It changes position every minute – BIGHAND
Jabbed – POKED
Join in – PARTAKE
Keeps quiet – SAYSNOTHING
Knee part, for short – ACL
Large 8-Down – ELK
Light gas in some lights – NEON
Like a roly-poly – TINY
Like someone who orders people around – BOSSY
Like the Bibliotheca Alexandrina – EGYPTIAN
Martial arts strikes – CHOPS
Money machine – ATM
Name that’s 13-Across backward – ARI
Part of a bike – PEDAL
Plow pullers – OXEN
Pollen collector – BEE
Possums have 50 – TEETH
Protective attire – ARMOR
Pushup ___ – BRA
Reuben bread – RYE
Ruthless ruler – DESPOT
Savings plan initials – IRA
Six-pack muscles – ABS
Snitch – RAT
Soft murmur – COO
Start of something – ONSET
Tacky – CHEAP
Telepathy, e.g – ESP
Telluride automaker – KIA
The EPA banned it in 1972 – DDT
Three of a ___ – KIND
Tutorial – HOWTO
Two-reeded woodwinds – OBOES
Type of punchline hidden in this clue – PUN
Very thick – DENSE
Vietnamese noodle soup – PHO
Word in an FC Barcelona chant – OLE
Worked those 10-Down, say – TRAINED
___ in the headlights – DEER
___ Liberation Front – GAY
___ Wars (Fortnite mode) – ZONE
___ X (‘Unlady Like’ rapper) – MIA
