Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Thursday August 19 2021.
‘. . . ish’ – ORSO
‘I should have ___ that coming’ – SEEN
‘I was somewhere else’ excuse – ALIBI
‘If I ___ a Boy’ – WERE
‘Jane Eyre’ author Charlotte – BRONTE
‘Make Me ___’ (Janelle Monae song) – FEEL
‘No thanks, all set’ – IMGOOD
‘Nope’ – NAH
‘Reading Rainbow’ channel – PBS
‘Reading Rainbow’ host Burton – LEVAR
‘To Be Young, Gifted and Black’ singer – NINASIMONE
‘Toy Story’ shepherd – BOPEEP
‘What are you ___?!’ – DOING
‘What’s up with ___?’ – THAT
Back in style – RETRO
Bar window fixture – NEONLIGHT
Basketball star Cambage – LIZ
Bearlike marsupial – KOALA
Black-and-white bear – PANDA
BLT ingredient – BACON
Body part with a patella – KNEE
Brain specialist – NEUROLOGIST
Buddy – PAL
Carnival attractions – RIDES
Cash alternative – CARD
Catchy song – BOP
Chicago airport – OHARE
Compelling, like an argument – PERSUASIVE
Currently unstoppable – ONFIRE
Currently winning – AHEAD
Decorate – ADORN
Diana Taurasi hairstyle – BUN
Document of ownership – DEED
Drill insert – BIT
Earth-related prefix – GEO
Email folder – SENT
Embroidery craft – NEEDLEPOINT
Excitedly recited the digits of pi, for example – NERDEDOUT
Go out with a ___ – BANG
Hockey stat (Abbr.) – PTS
Item used for pullups – BAR
Kanga’s baby – ROO
Kitchen appliance – FRIDGE
Language-learning app – DUOLINGO
Like food with a little kick – ZESTY
Like one or three – ODD
Like two or four – EVEN
Long lock – TRESS
Love, in Portuguese – AMOR
Make void – ANNUL
Microscope insert – SLIDE
Misplace – LOSE
Newspaper VIPs (Abbr.) – EDS
Notes from a debtor – IOUS
Number range on a board game box – AGES
Osiris and Anubis, for example – GODS
Out-of-focus image – BLUR
Played the trumpet – BLEW
Results of brainstorms – IDEAS
Risky – UNSAFE
Run out of electricity – DIE
Running behind schedule – LATE
Salsa ingredient – ONION
Scallion relatives – LEEKS
Sci-fi book set on a desert planet – DUNE
Scissor Sisters singer ___ Matronic – ANA
Seed in a tournament – RANK
Shut down – END
Stay away from – AVOID
Tribute that may rhyme – ODE
Turned a ticket into a stub – TORE
Untidiness – MESS
Utter falsehood – TOTALLIE
Vinaigrette ingredient – OIL
Volcano output – ASH
Website for selling handmade goods – ETSY
Window parts – PANES
___ around (snooped) – NOSED
