Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Wednesday February 17, 2021.
‘And, I might add . . .’ – ALSO
‘Big Little Lies’ actress Kravitz – ZOE
‘Close, but no ___’ – CIGAR
‘My bad!’ – OOPS
‘POW!’ relative – BAM
‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ actress Jacobson – ABBI
‘What ___ with you?’ – ISIT
‘With all ___ respect . . .’ – DUE
3.1 Phillip ___ (fashion label) – LIM
Alias lead-in – AKA
Bangladeshi or Bhutanese – ASIAN
Beast from the Equidae family – ASS
Biggest city in South America – SAOPAULO
Birdbath scum – ALGAE
Black Panther Hampton – FRED
Black-and-white snacks – OREOS
Bother continually – EATAT
Bothers big-time – IRKS
Burkina ___ – FASO
Centers of hurricanes – EYES
Close by – NEAR
Closes tightly – SEALS
Common flooring wood – OAK
Coral formation – REEF
Corporate $$$ exec – CFO
Cost of a cab ride – FARE
Dumpster features – ODORS
Fundamental – BASIC
Hotel visit – STAY
Investment firm workers – ANALYSTS
Kash Doll genre – RAP
Keynote speaker’s place – STAGE
Less prevalent – RARER
Like a precarious situation – HAIRY
Like dry wit – WRY
Machine that might charge you to get your money – ATM
Makes a mistake – GOOFS
Mechanics work on them – CARS
Meteor shower sights – FALLINGSTARS
Michelin or Pirelli product – TIRE
Move with urgency – RUSH
Noncommercial advertisement, for short – PSA
Not doing much – IDLE
On easy street – SETFORLIFE
Openly bi, say – OUT
Place for an industrial piercing – EAR
Play a wrong note, say – ERR
Prefix for ‘correct’ – AUTO
Prepared dinner, perhaps – COOKED
Quarrel – ARGUE
Rice-shaped pasta – ORZO
Rock in a mine – ORE
Romanov ruler – TSAR
Secret stash – CACHE
Shiva or Vishnu – GOD
Short-sleeved shirts – TEES
Shows the ropes – EDUCATES
Slide on the road – SKID
So to speak – ASITWERE
Sorely regret – RUE
Spot to grab a Middle Eastern sandwich – FALAFELSTAND
Stat on a terminal screen – ETA
Stiff – RIGID
Sunrise sight – REDSKY
Talk big – BRAG
Tech for ‘Avatar’ – CGI
Two-team wrestling meets – DUALS
Type of nonfiction writing – ESSAY
Tyrannical – IRONFISTED
Uneaten parts of loaves, sometimes – ENDS
Unlikely to say hi first, say – SHY
Untrue assertions – FALSESTATEMENTS
Very long stretch of time – EON
Word repeated before ‘Who’s there?’ – KNOCK
Workplace message – MEMO
___ de parfum – EAU
___ peppers – BELL
___ up (come clean) – FES
