USA Today - Aug 25 2019 Crossword Answer

USA Today - Aug 25 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Kingdom southeast of Fiji	TONGA
Knuckleballer Wilhelm	HOYT
Krusty, on 'The Simpsons'	CLOWN
Last-place team	CELLARDWELLER
Lawn repair buy	SOD
Letters on the John S. McCain	USS
Lionel train buys	SETS
Make an afghan, perhaps	KNIT
Maker of Duplo bricks	LEGO
Mar-a-Lago, e.g	ESTATE
Mentalist's gift, for short	ESP
Mideast's Gulf of ___	ADEN
Needing to chill out	TENSE
Numbers to crunch	DATA
One of a Parcheesi pair	DIE
Organizer of a role-playing game	DUNGEONMASTER
Painful struggle	THROES
Pentathlon part	EVENT
Philosopher Descartes	RENE
Place to sell hot dogs	STAND
Pompeii cover	ASH
Print shop packet	REAM
Realtor, e.g	AGENT
Reporter's bias	SLANT
Response to a pastor	AMEN
Riesling or retsina	WINE
Rocker Frampton	PETER
Salmon fisher's net	SEINE
Self-referential, informally	META
Solo at the Met	ARIA
Sun worshipper's shade	TAN
Tale-spinning 'Uncle'	REMUS
Tantrum-prone kid	BRAT
Target of Garfield's kicks	ODIE
Texas Hold 'em fee	ANTE
The Earps, e.g	LAWMEN
Thigh-slapper	RIOT
Trivia bits	FACTS
___ League (Cairo-based group)	ARAB

Clues	Answers
'Biscuit' introduced in 1912	OREO
'Bless you!' elicitor	ACHOO
'Death Wish' director Roth	ELI
'Last, but not ___ . . .'	LEAST
'Moldy' tune	OLDIE
'OK by me'	SURE
'Peace' gesture	VEE
'Still open,' on a sched	TBA
Airport conveyance	TRAM
Ball celeb	DEB
Barely manage, with 'out'	EKE
Blatherers don't make any	SENSE
Blazed a trail	LED
Bossa nova kin	SAMBA
Bricks unit	TON
Buck the establishment	REBEL
Buffalo-to-Albany canal	ERIE
Burn the surface of	CHAR
Button up, e.g	FASTEN
Chopin's 'Black Keys,' e.g	ETUDE
Coin with a shield, since 2010	CENT
Confront rudely	ACCOST
Cyclotron bit	ATOM
Did summer stock	ACTED
Do-over at Ashe	LET
Dumb as a rock	DENSE
Fades away	EBBS
FAQ part	ASKED
Field day spoiler	RAIN
Financial aid factor	NEED
Find repugnant	HATE
Grand ___ Opry	OLE
Guthrie's restaurateur	ALICE
Having nowhere to run	TREED
Highly defensive state of mind	BUNKERMENTALITY
Ice skate part	BLADE
Ill-fated shepherd in Genesis	ABEL
Joust combatant	TILTER
Judge Roy of the Wild West	BEAN