USA Today - Crossword Answers | 2023 01 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Abu Dhabi's country UAE
'You're my ___ model' ROLE
ABSENCE OF DIFFICULTY EASE
'Whichever is fine!' EITHEROR
Animals in vampire movies BATS
HINDMOST PARTS REARS
'It was just OK' MEH
BARN BIRDS OWLS
'Hold on a ___!' SEC
BECOME LESS INTENSE LETUP
'A Strange Loop' actress L Morgan ___ LEE
GET-GO ONSET
POSITIVE ASPECT UPSIDE
ARBOR DAY PLANTING TREE
'Te ___' (Spanish for 'I love you') AMO
'So true!' AMEN
'My bad!' in a text SRY
Chocolate ___ (airy dessert) MOUSSE
'Mona ___' LISA
'If all ___ fails . . .' ELSE
'EWW!' ICK
Like too-old blackberries MOLDY
Prefix for 'freeze' or 'hero' ANTI
Classroom activity often depicted in 'Calvin and Hobbes' SHOWANDTELL
Halle Berry won one in 2002 ACADEMYAWARD
Mixed-gender COED
Tentative look PEEK
Throwers of TDs QBS
VICTORY WIN
SHIPPED SENT
CARVE INTO METAL ETCH
MOOSE RELATIVES ELKS
Person from Denmark DANE
SOLEMN PROMISE OATH
What a stargazer looks toward SKY
Baton Rouge school LSU
YOUNG BOY LAD
Book finished in a short time QUICKREAD
COMES TO A CLOSE ENDS
President whose national memorial is next to MLK's FDR
Salad dressing bottle instruction SHAKEWELL
Small recipe amount (Abbr.) TSP
Passports, etc IDS
Ohio Players genre FUNK
Track practice unit LAP
Optional ingredient ADDIN
___ on (urged) EGGED
UTILIZES USES
Voice of Alexandra Trese in 'Trese' SHAYMITCHELL
PARTS OF EYEGLASSES RIMS
___ off (dozes) NODS
State next to Ida ORE
Suffix for 'lemon' or 'Gator' ADE
Great Lake near Buffalo ERIE
VIETNAMESE LUNAR NEW YEAR TETNGUYENDAN
PART OF A SPREADSHEET ROW
THAT, IN SPANISH ESO
Shows up to ATTENDS
FREEZER CUBES ICE
COOLING UNITS, FOR SHORT ACS
CALLERS OF STRIKES AND BALLS UMPS
WNBA VENUES ARENAS