Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Wednesday August 18 2021.
‘And . . .’ – ALSO
‘Good ___!’ (‘Jeez!’) – GRIEF
‘Good ___!’ (‘Nice thinking!’) – IDEA
‘I feel ___!’ (‘You get me!’) – SEEN
‘Sun Goes Down’ singer Lil ___ X – NAS
‘Ugh!’ – ICK
Adhesive for a poster – TAPE
Artist Gomes – SONIA
Assessment in school – TEST
Big brass instrument – TUBA
Birthday indulgence – CAKE
Break things off – ENDIT
Cards above kings, in poker – ACES
Carries around – TOTES
Cat’s feet – PAWS
Character also known as Ms. Marvel – KAMALAKHAN
Cried – WEPT
Didn’t stay – LEFT
Division of geologic time – EON
Document checked at the grocery store – LIST
Dollar bills – ONES
Don’t discard – KEEP
Doughnut chain – KRISPYKREME
Drill or wrench – TOOL
Election Day surveys – EXITPOLLS
Festival celebrated during Kartika – DIWALI
Fiber made by worms – SILK
First-aid ___ – KIT
For old times’ ___ – SAKE
Friend – PAL
From the capital of Italy – ROMAN
Garment from the Sanskrit for ‘strip of cloth’ – SARI
Genre with social critiques – SATIRE
Get exhausted – TIRE
Getting misty-eyed – TEARINGUP
Go with something less than the best – SETTLE
Illegally obtained – STOLEN
Inquires – ASKS
Island nation in the Mediterranean – MALTA
Large sports venues – ARENAS
Main character in ‘Roots’ – KUNTAKINTE
Metal fastener for paper – STAPLE
Monstrous creature – BEAST
Name hidden in ‘televangelism’ – EVAN
National Youth Poet Laureate Gorman – AMANDA
Nickname for a dad – POP
Not get captured by – ELUDE
Number of sides of a hexagon – SIX
Number rhymed with ‘buckle my shoe’ – TWO
Numerical factoid – STAT
Obeys a red light – STOPS
Pants shade – KHAKI
Pepsi alternative – COKE
Polite term of address – SIR
Push’s counterpart – PULL
Puts into categories – SORTS
Really desire – CRAVE
RSVP option – YES
Santa Claus, by another name – KRISKRINGLE
She-sheep – EWE
Siete mas uno – OCHO
Simple card game – WAR
Single-___ (disposable) – USE
Slowly leak – SEEP
Smallest amount – LEAST
Spy org. in ‘The Americans’ – KGB
Suffered from soreness – ACHED
Summing sign – PLUS
Take in or let out, for example – ALTER
Takes a meal – DINES
Tantalizing smell – AROMA
Tell a fib – LIE
Temporarily stopped – PAUSED
Took a meal – ATE
Up to the task – ABLE
Vegetable related to garlic – LEEK
Wing-to-wing measurement – SPAN
___ metal recycling – SCRAP
