USA Today - Crossword Answers | 2021 02 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CLOSE BY NEAR
___ PEPPERS BELL
Noncommercial advertisement, for short PSA
Place for an industrial piercing EAR
Prepared dinner, perhaps COOKED
Shiva or Vishnu GOD
Sorely regret RUE
Spot to grab a Middle Eastern sandwich FALAFELSTAND
Stat on a terminal screen ETA
Openly bi, say OUT
Corporate $$$ exec CFO
'And, I might add . . .' ALSO
'Big Little Lies' actress Kravitz ZOE
'The Lego Ninjago Movie' actress Jacobson ABBI
3.1 Phillip ___ (fashion label) LIM
Bangladeshi or Bhutanese ASIAN
Common flooring wood OAK
Sunrise sight REDSKY
Tech for 'Avatar' CGI
Type of nonfiction writing ESSAY
Uneaten parts of loaves, sometimes ENDS
Unlikely to say hi first, say SHY
Untrue assertions FALSESTATEMENTS
Dumpster features ODORS
Michelin or Pirelli product TIRE
Meteor shower sights FALLINGSTARS
Like a precarious situation HAIRY
Keynote speaker's place STAGE
Kash Doll genre RAP
Investment firm workers ANALYSTS
TALK BIG BRAG
TYRANNICAL IRONFISTED
ON EASY STREET SETFORLIFE
WORKPLACE MESSAGE MEMO
PLAY A WRONG NOTE, SAY ERR
RICE-SHAPED PASTA ORZO
LESS PREVALENT RARER
'Pow!' relative BAM
Two-team wrestling meets DUALS
SHORT-SLEEVED SHIRTS TEES
CENTERS OF HURRICANES EYES
ALIAS LEAD-IN AKA
ROMANOV RULER TSAR
CORAL FORMATION REEF
MAKES A MISTAKE GOOFS
NOT DOING MUCH IDLE
HOTEL VISIT STAY
'Close, but no ___' CIGAR
Like dry wit WRY
Prefix for 'correct' AUTO
QUARREL ARGUE
___ DE PARFUM EAU
STIFF RIGID
SO TO SPEAK ASITWERE
CLOSES TIGHTLY SEALS
BURKINA ___ FASO
ROCK IN A MINE ORE
Very long stretch of time EON
SECRET STASH CACHE
FUNDAMENTAL BASIC
'MY BAD!' OOPS
BLACK-AND-WHITE SNACKS OREOS
COST OF A CAB RIDE FARE
___ UP (COME CLEAN) FESS