Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Monday June 21 2021.
‘1, 2 ___’ (Ciara hit) – STEP
‘Bridgerton’ duke played by Rege-Jean Page – SIMON
‘Chewing ___’ (Michaela Coel sitcom) – GUM
‘My bad!’ – SORRY
‘Pow!’ – BAM
‘The time ___ come’ – HAS
‘To repeat myself . . .’ – ASIVESAID
‘___ Rates Dogs: The Podcast’ – SHE
11- or 12-year-old – TWEEN
All turned around – LOST
Allege – CLAIM
Annual athletics awards – ESPYS
Architect Maya – LIN
Basketball surface – COURT
Basketball venue – ARENA
Believer in ahimsa – JAIN
Berets and snapbacks – HATS
Bhutan’s continent – ASIA
Big primates – APES
Box for milk bottles – CRATE
Break up with suddenly – JILT
Car trip purchase – GAS
Car type named for a chair – SEDAN
Clucking creature – HEN
Cure – HEAL
Desert havens – OASES
Djembes and dholkis – DRUMS
Drink with mint and bourbon – JULEP
Dryer debris – LINT
Eagerly consume – EATUP
Early internet brand – AOL
Encourage – URGE
Evaluate – ASSESS
Exclamation while driving past a herd of cows – MOO
Eyeliner look – WINGS
Feeling oneself – CONFIDENT
Flared skirt style – ALINE
Flower in Georgia O’Keeffe art – IRIS
Germany luxury car – AUDI
Green New Deal sponsor’s initials – AOC
Groups – SETS
Haul – LUG
Imitate – MIMIC
Intrinsic – INNATE
Janet Jackson movie – POETICJUSTICE
Lead-in – INTRO
Magazine articles, for example – PRINTJOURNALISM
Many kilt wearers – SCOTS
Miso taste – UMAMI
Musician/actor Jorge – SEU
National Mall trees – ELMS
Native people for whom a Great Lake is named – ERIE
Night ___ (World of Warcraft creature) – ELF
Occupies a bench, e.g – SITS
On the ___ (frequently) – REG
Ore finder – MINER
Outs’ counterparts – INS
Place for a helmet strap – CHIN
Places for stalactites – CAVES
Places where drinks can be charged to the room – HOTELBARS
Point on a fork – TINE
Poker stake – ANTE
Punctuation mark in ‘I, Tonya’ – COMMA
Rejections – NOS
Reverent poems – ODES
Search someone’s old tweets, perhaps – DIGUPDIRT
Seize wrongfully – USURP
Something laid by a 27-Across – EGG
Spanish for ‘friend’ – AMIGA
Steamer alternative – IRON
Swapping salt and sugar labels, e.g – PRACTICALJOKE
Trail – PATH
Watering tool – HOSE
Word after ‘flat’ or ‘spare’ – TIRE
Word repeated in a Hawaiian fish name – MAHI
Workers’ organization – UNION
Yankees’ crosstown rivals – METS
___ paneer – PALAK
