Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Friday June 18 2021.
‘Don’t let them find us!’ – HIDE
‘I can’t believe this mess!’ – UGH
‘I’m not making this up’ – TRUEFACT
‘Ouch!’ – ITHURTS
‘Super ___ Bloomer’ (Julia Kaye collection) – LATE
‘The Matrix’ co-writer Wachowski – LANA
‘Uh-huh’ – YEP
‘You’re so right’ – AMEN
‘___ that strange?’ – ISNT
Airing via the small screen – ONTV
Animal Crossing store owner Nook – TOM
Bird that can jump seven feet in the air – EMU
Bird that may be orange and black – ORIOLE
Capital of Canada – OTTAWA
Changes – ALTERS
Chemical in some nail polish removers – ACETONE
Combined – POOLED
Complain about – BEMOAN
Cutesy suffix for ‘best’ – EST
Defensive response to an accusation – IDONOT
Drink that may be accompanied by Parle-G – CHAI
Each – APOP
En ___ (all together) – MASSE
Enhances – AUGMENTS
Father – SIRE
Footwear for rain or snow – BOOTS
Forearm bone – RADIUS
Future full-time employee, perhaps – INTERN
Go in – ENTER
GPS approximations – ETAS
Held in high ___ (esteemed) – REGARD
Homophone of ‘aisle’ – ISLE
Language whose name aptly contains the word ‘tones’ – CANTONESE
Leaves out – OMITS
Like drone footage – AERIAL
Lose-lose – NOWIN
Low points – DEPTHS
Mail out – SEND
Movement with crystal healing – NEWAGE
Name hidden in ‘Gemini rising’ – IRIS
Name that’s 6-Down backward – SIRI
Necessities – NEEDS
Nibiinaabe, for example – WATERSPIRIT
Oaty options in the cereal aisle – GRANOLAS
Olympic champions – GOLDMEDALISTS
Onion rings and such – SIDES
Opera solo – ARIA
Person avoiding animal products – VEGAN
Photographer Goldin – NAN
Pictures – IMAGES
Prefix meaning ‘new’ – NEO
Random ___ of kindness – ACTS
Right-hand person – ASSISTANT
Salty solution – SALINE
Shakira megahit of 2006 – HIPSDONTLIE
Singer with the album ’21’ – ADELE
Smoothly charismatic – SUAVE
Soothing topical substance – OINTMENT
Square root of 121 – ELEVEN
Stuck person’s place – RUT
Tanks and T-shirts, e.g – TOPS
The world’s smallest seeds come from one – ORCHID
Tooth covering – ENAMEL
Verbal equivalent of a facepalm – DOH
Washington Mystics forward Hines-Allen – MYISHA
What makes up a mustache – HAIR
Word sung at a futbol match – OLE
___ chi – TAI
___ Moines – DES
___ to (mention) – REFER
