USA Today Crossword February 16 2023 Answers

The complete list of answers to the USA Today Crossword published on February 16 2023.

75
Total Clues
36
Total Across
39
Total Down

Clues Across (36 total)

(1)
Honolulu's island
(5)
Promotional paragraph
(10)
Stick in a test kit
(14)
Turn with a spatula
(15)
Not as common
(16)
Flag holder
(17)
Government agents
(18)
Sound transmission
(19)
Golfer's target
(20)
Not happy
(23)
Snake-haired figure in Greek myth
(24)
Counterparts of flats, in music
(26)
Name that means "born again"
(27)
Is looking for
(29)
Apple pie ___ mode
(30)
". . . but I ___"
(36)
Intelligence org. in the Susan Williams book "White Malice"
(37)
"Great, one more thing to be terrified about"
(40)
Greenish-blue hue
(41)
Visibly unsafe for eating
(42)
"Take this one"
(43)
___ Kippur
(45)
Name that becomes a direction if you add a T
(46)
Part of PPV or mpg
(47)
Unfairly deprive
(49)
Skillet, for example
(50)
Groups of organized workers
(55)
Hard precipitation
(57)
Ab exercise
(58)
Unwanted trail in a kitchen
(61)
Past partners
(62)
Shovel relative
(63)
Des Moines' state
(64)
"Definitely!"
(65)
What a phoenix rises from
(66)
"My mind is blown!"

Clues Down (39 total)

(1)
Not right
(2)
Ginger ___
(3)
Not stored in an easy-to-find place
(4)
"___ Down" (Diana Ross hit)
(5)
Talks a big game
(6)
Actress Linney
(7)
Language in Pakistan
(8)
Take the ___ (assume control)
(9)
Liquid ingredient in soups
(10)
Perfectly round object
(11)
Loud bird
(12)
100%
(13)
Nectar collector
(21)
Soft leather
(22)
Rodeo rope
(23)
Chaotic fight
(25)
Winter Olympics athlete
(26)
___ and rave
(28)
"Smooth Operator" singer
(31)
Translation of "yo soy"
(32)
Get larger
(33)
"No shoes in the house," for example
(34)
Comes to a close
(35)
Mischievous
(38)
"___? For spring? Groundbreaking" (sarcastic line in "The Devil Wears Prada")
(39)
Capital of Tamil Nadu, India
(44)
Chaotic crowd
(46)
Kung ___ chicken
(48)
___ nova (Brazilian music style)
(49)
Plumbing tubes
(50)
Falsehoods
(51)
Tears into shreds
(52)
Salt Lake City's state
(53)
Shade of lipstick or heels
(54)
Fluffy precipitation
(55)
"Howdy!"
(56)
Tool for splitting wood
(59)
Number that sometimes follows LGBTQIA
(60)
Tool for cutting wood

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