Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Thursday June 24 2021.
‘Careful out there!’ – BESAFE
‘Hey, over here!’ – PSST
‘It’s ___ Be Me’ (*NSYNC song) – GONNA
‘Once ___ a time . . .’ – UPON
‘Sorry to say . . .’ – ALAS
‘Well, aren’t you the comedian!’ – VERYFUNNY
‘___ it go’ – LET
Aaliyah album ‘___ in a Million’ – ONE
Adds to the family – ADOPTS
Appears to be – SEEMS
Argentina sports newspaper – OLE
Black Lives Matter co-founder Tometi – OPAL
Call followed by ‘Polo!’ – MARCO
Class clown’s bit – ANTIC
Comic-Con, for example – FANFEST
Computer screen item that might be an arrow or a hand – CURSOR
Country singer Lindsay – ELL
Ctrl Z action – UNDO
Cured deli meat – SALAMI
Digital b-day greetings – ECARDS
Fencing blade – EPEE
Fraction of a pound – OUNCE
Given a layer of something – COATED
Gob of gum – WAD
Group founded to combat AIDS – ACTUP
Grow older – AGE
Heart, for example – ORGAN
Jointly provide money for – COFUND
Kesha hit ‘TiK ___’ – TOK
Language of Pakistan – URDU
Latino Walk of Fame neighborhood – EASTLA
Leaf valued by the Incas – COCA
MacArthur Fellowship prize – GRANT
Maker of pods that aren’t edible – TIDE
Members of some religious orders – FRIARS
Model/actress Mendes – EVA
Move stealthily – SNEAK
No more than – UPTO
Not many – FEW
One who goes it alone on albums – SOLOMUSICIAN
Opposite of transparent – OPAQUE
Pantry pest – ANT
Persian Gulf country – OMAN
Person in the spotlight – STAR
Pond growth – ALGAE
Postal stuff – MAIL
Practice-fight – SPAR
Prevailed in the end – WONOUT
Product for getting out muddy paw stains – CARPETCLEANER
Proverbially slippery swimmer – EEL
Purple bubble tea flavor – TARO
Pushpins, e.g – TACKS
Readily apparent – OVERT
River in Egypt – NILE
Self-appointed expert, perhaps – SNOB
Showed up – CAME
Shows rock against paper, for example – LOSES
Skewered dish – SATAY
Slowly trickle – SEEP
Soccer scores – GOALS
Solid, liquid, ___ – GAS
Somewhat – ATAD
Store safely for later – SQUIRRELAWAY
Tennis feat achieved twice by Aniek van Koot – GRANDSLAM
Transfer to a new notebook – RECOPY
Tried to sell – PEDDLED
Try for office – RUN
Unappetizing food – SLOP
Vegas show – REVUE
Vietnamese New Year – TET
Warning color – RED
Water tube – PIPE
Whitewater vessel – RAFT
Window part – PANE
___ green – KELLY
___ up (absorb) – SOP
