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
TROPICAL REPTILE IGUANA
SAMOSA VEGGIE PEA
TIRADE RANT
FINISH UP END
When kindergartners sleep on mats NAPTIME
JACUZZI HOTTUB
Risk-taking part of one's personality WILDSIDE
GRANDMAS NANAS
Drum used in a drumroll SNARE
Future doctor's program PREMED
Off-limits action NONO
'Ouch, what a diss!' OHSNAP
Sounds of books falling off shelves THUDS
Kindle or Nook, e.g EREADER
Worked as an educator TAUGHT
Shredded cabbage side dishes SLAWS
Does a pirouette SPINS
Spanish for 'fast' RAPIDO
ACTRESS CLOSE GLENN
'ASAP!' PRONTO
Treeless grasslands STEPPES
'r u serious rn' OMG
TAVERN PUB
Currently unstoppable ONFIRE
Poseidon and Tangaroa SEAGODS
Parts of watering cans SPOUTS
Underground drainage systems SEWERS
PICNIC PEST ANT
Informative one-page document FACTSHEET
Tall piece of headwear TOPHAT
PAGEANT CROWNS TIARAS
'Totally rockin'' RAD
Organism in which clownfish live ANEMONE
Made formal amends ATONED
OOZED SEEPED
VARIANT STRAIN
SAND HILLS DUNES
Test-grader's writing tool REDPEN
Tennis legend Monica SELES
Laser tag sound PEW
'How're you doin'?' SUP
Primatologist's animal APE
'What terrible luck' UGH
Toxic substances POISONS
SILLY PEOPLE TWERPS
Prefix meaning 'equal' ISO