USA Today 2021 04 10 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
PUTS DOWN	LAYS
POKE FUN AT	TEASE
MUSICAL CHAIRS GOAL	SEAT
ASCENDS	CLIMBS
BECOME A MEMBER	JOIN
TEAR	RIP
FRINGES	EDGES
HAVE AMBITIONS	ASPIRE
PART OF A DYING FIRE	EMBER
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR	COLLEGEDEAN
FURRY HIMALAYAN LEGEND	YETI
Metronome settings	TEMPOS
FALSE APPEARANCE	GUISE
ARIA SINGER	DIVA
RAPPER ___ KIM	LIL
___ ALGEBRA	LINEAR
MEH	SOSO
BY MEANS OF	VIA
PIT GUNK	TAR
PLACE FOR A BELT	WAIST
KEEP FOR LATER	SAVE
HAY UNIT	BALE
NEARER	CLOSER
CHARGED PARTICLE	ION
OBSTACLE	SNAG
___ Philharmonic (Pennsylvania orchestra)	ERIE
USED A LOOM	WOVE
COLORFUL ROCK	AGATE
File folder part	TAB
MAKES A SHARP TURN	VEERS
LIKE SOME HAIR	WAVY
'Not on your life!'	NEVER
'Rats!'	DANG
'The Sound of Music' mountains	ALPS
Boater's safety garment	LIFEVEST
Critique to 'pick'	NIT
'La Traviata' composer	GIUSEPPEVERDI
Golden and Bronze, for two	AGES
Long-lasting offensives	SIEGES
Low-effort	EASY
Mexico City coin	PESO
Microdermabrasion place	SPA
Mlle.'s Spanish counterpart	SRTA
Jafar's parrot in 'Aladdin'	IAGO
'Five score years ___ . . .'	AGO
'At Seventeen' singer Janis	IAN
'Boomerang' channel	BET
Name hidden in 'strobe light'	ELI
Networker's connections	INS
Participates in crew	ROWS
Performs like Honey Dijon	DJS
Place for a brace or a bracelet	ANKLE
Pont des Arts river	SEINE
Seitan might substitute for it	MEAT
Show starring Dominique Jackson as Elektra	POSE
Visitors from outer space (Abbr.)	ETS
PART OF A TIMELINE	ERA
DISTORT	WARP
FINISHED	OVER
FULLY ENGROSSED	RAPT
Word such as 'sink' or 'swim'	ACTIVEVERB
Toxic secretion from a cobra, e.g	SNAKEVENOM
'Attack, Fido!'	SICEM
IMPROVISE LIKE ELLA FITZGERALD	SCAT
PLEDGE	VOW

PUTS DOWN

LAYS

POKE FUN AT

TEASE

MUSICAL CHAIRS GOAL

SEAT

ASCENDS

CLIMBS

BECOME A MEMBER

JOIN

TEAR

RIP