USA Today - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Competing in a no-blinking contest STARING
Word shouted before 'You're it!' TAG
'Noble' horse STEED
STORY TALE
Species of small songbird WARBLER
Garden tool used before sowing seeds HOE
Parts of watering cans SPOUTS
Underground drainage systems SEWERS
PICNIC PEST ANT
Informative one-page document FACTSHEET
Tall piece of headwear TOPHAT
Drum used in a drumroll SNARE
Sounds of books falling off shelves THUDS
Kindle or Nook, e.g EREADER
Off-limits action NONO
Future doctor's program PREMED
'Ouch, what a diss!' OHSNAP
TROPICAL REPTILE IGUANA
SAMOSA VEGGIE PEA
TIRADE RANT
FINISH UP END
When kindergartners sleep on mats NAPTIME
GRANDMAS NANAS
JACUZZI HOTTUB
Risk-taking part of one's personality WILDSIDE
Spanish for 'fast' RAPIDO
Worked as an educator TAUGHT
Shredded cabbage side dishes SLAWS
Does a pirouette SPINS
ACTRESS CLOSE GLENN
'Totally rockin'' RAD
Made formal amends ATONED
OOZED SEEPED
VARIANT STRAIN
SAND HILLS DUNES
Tennis legend Monica SELES
Laser tag sound PEW
SILLY PEOPLE TWERPS
Toxic substances POISONS
'How're you doin'?' SUP
Prefix meaning 'equal' ISO
Primatologist's animal APE
'What terrible luck' UGH
Organism in which clownfish live ANEMONE
Test-grader's writing tool REDPEN
PAGEANT CROWNS TIARAS
'ASAP!' PRONTO
Treeless grasslands STEPPES
'r u serious rn' OMG
TAVERN PUB
Poseidon and Tangaroa SEAGODS
Currently unstoppable ONFIRE