USA Today Crossword Answers – Monday July 5 2021

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Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Monday July 5 2021.
‘Finally!’ – ATLAST
‘Hey now’ – CMON
‘I’d like to say ___ words . . .’ – AFEW
‘SportsCenter’ channel – ESPN
‘We’ve only just ___’ – BEGUN
‘What’s ___ for me?’ – INIT
‘Will do!’ – ONIT
5K or marathon – RACE
Arid – DRY
Blackfire genre – PUNK
Blue-green shade – AQUA
Body of water separated from a sea – LAGOON
Bugs constantly – NAGS
Capital of Iran – TEHRAN
Characteristics – ASPECTS
Cheese in a Greek salad – FETA
Cherry part – STEM
Clothing – GARB
Community orgs. with youth programs – YMCAS
Dawn – SUNUP
Digestive ___ – TRACT
Dine – EAT
Doily or lingerie material – LACE
DVD precursor – VHS
Extremely dark – PITCHBLACK
Flaws in stockings – RUNS
Give off – EMIT
Homophone of ‘sign’ – SINE
Hurt – HARM
Ice cream shop tool – SCOOP
Insect that sounds like a letter – BEE
Instructions part – STEP
Jump at a loud noise, for example – REACT
Kendrick Lamar track about coming home – MOMMA
Key verb in a risotto recipe – STIR
Lead-in to ‘buds’ or ‘muffs’ – EAR
Letters before a pen name – AKA
Like an international superstar – WORLDFAMOUS
Like Machu Picchu – INCAN
Like peanut brittle – NUTTY
Main ingredient in congee – RICE
Makes small improvements to – REFINES
Many ‘Sister Act’ characters – NUNS
Mistake – ERROR
More real – TRUER
Motivating monologues – PEPTALKS
Name that’s 16-Across minus a letter – ARI
One-up – TOP
Operatic solo – ARIA
Perseverance Rover org – NASA
Piper who picked a peck of pickled peppers, in a tongue twister – PETER
Playtime in school – RECESS
Pop-up windows, often – ADS
Prefix for ‘system’ – ECO
Prepare in the oven – BAKE
Pretends to sing along – LIPSYNCS
Quenches – SATES
Relatives of ostriches – EMUS
Restrict – LIMIT
Sanchez of the Black Arts Movement – SONIA
Satisfying supper, for example – SQUAREMEAL
Silly – INANE
Social ___ (expected behaviors) – NORMS
Standard of measurement – UNIT
Synonym for ‘trash’ in the phrase ‘trash talk’ – SMACK
T. rex or ankylosaurus, for short – DINO
Tennis match part – SET
Test for doctors-to-be – MCAT
Test that measures brain activity – EEG
The A in UAE – ARAB
They gather before a big rain – STORMCLOUDS
Verb that sounds like a letter – ARE
Wang or Bradley – VERA
Wrestling surface – MAT
Young lady – GAL
___ Aviv – TEL
___ Inch Nails – NINE
___ reel (actor’s compilation) – DEMO

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