USA Today Crossword Answers February 16, 2023

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Author: by Erik Agard

Across

Honolulu’s island OAHU
Promotional paragraph BLURB
Stick in a test kit SWAB
Turn with a spatula FLIP
Not as common RARER
Flag holder POLE
Government agents FEDS
Sound transmission AUDIO
Golfer’s target HOLE
Not happy DISGRUNTLED
Snake-haired figure in Greek myth MEDUSA
Counterparts of flats, in music SHARPS
Name that means “born again” RENEE
Is looking for SEEKS
Apple pie ___ mode ALA
“. . . but I ___” DIGRESS
Intelligence org. in the Susan Williams book “White Malice” CIA
“Great, one more thing to be terrified about” NEWFEARUNLOCKED
Greenish-blue hue TEAL
Visibly unsafe for eating MOLDY
“Take this one” HERE
___ Kippur YOM
Name that becomes a direction if you add a T WES
Part of PPV or mpg PER
Unfairly deprive ROB
Skillet, for example PAN
Groups of organized workers LABORUNIONS
Hard precipitation HAIL
Ab exercise SITUP
Unwanted trail in a kitchen ANTS
Past partners EXES
Shovel relative SPADE
Des Moines’ state IOWA
“Definitely!” YES
What a phoenix rises from ASHES
“My mind is blown!” WOW

Down

Not right OFF
Ginger ___ ALE
Not stored in an easy-to-find place HIDDENAWAY
“___ Down” (Diana Ross hit) UPSIDE
Talks a big game BRAGS
Actress Linney LAURA
Language in Pakistan URDU
Take the ___ (assume control) REINS
Liquid ingredient in soups BROTH
Perfectly round object SPHERE
Loud bird WOODPECKER
100% ALL
Nectar collector BEE
Soft leather SUEDE
Rodeo rope LASSO
Chaotic fight MELEE
Winter Olympics athlete SKIER
___ and rave RANT
“Smooth Operator” singer SADE
Translation of “yo soy” IAM
Get larger GROW
“No shoes in the house,” for example RULE
Comes to a close ENDS
Mischievous SLY
“___? For spring? Groundbreaking” (sarcastic line in “The Devil Wears Prada”) FLORALS
Capital of Tamil Nadu, India CHENNAI
Chaotic crowd MOB
Kung ___ chicken PAO
___ nova (Brazilian music style) BOSSA
Plumbing tubes PIPES
Falsehoods LIES
Tears into shreds RIPS
Salt Lake City’s state UTAH
Shade of lipstick or heels NUDE
Fluffy precipitation SNOW
“Howdy!” HEY
Tool for splitting wood AXE
Number that sometimes follows LGBTQIA TWO
Tool for cutting wood SAW