USA Today Crossword November 27 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• Defrosts
  THAWS
• Passage for air or tears
  DUCT
• Milk source
  COW
• Sour grapes storyteller
  AESOP
• Grain with more protein than brown rice
  FARRO
• Told-you-so laugh
  HAH
• Head Off & Split poet
  NIKKYFINNEY
• Jade Carey’s Olympic team
  USA
• Some SAT takers (Abbr.)
  SRS
• Who ___ it better?
  WORE
• Go ahead tear the wrapping off!
  OPENIT
• ___ de parfum
  EAU
• Camera sounds
  CLICKS
• Beezus and Ramona novelist
  BEVERLYCLEARY
• Banishment
  EXILE
• Hello in Portuguese
  OLA
• Heats in the microwave
  NUKES
• Nurses a sake
  SIPS
• Join the big leagues
  GOPRO
• Hush-hush contract
  NDA
• Shrimp paste amt.
  TSP
• Experts on IRS forms
  CPAS
• Give like homework
  ASSIGN
• House for a horse
  STABLE
• Flight takeoff stat (Abbr.)
  ETD
• Great Basin people
  UTES
• Horse color pattern
  ROAN
• ___-baked potato
  TWICE
• Talking endlessly
  YAKKING
• . . . sorta
  ISH
• Wonton noodle ingredient
  EGG
• Hoodie singer Lennox
  ARI
• Frankenstein author
  MARYSHELLEY
• X-___: The Animated Series
  MEN
• Snobbish sort
  SNOOT
• Oregon’s Cherry City
  SALEM
• Droop like a worn-out cushion
  SAG
• Some basketball shots
  TWOS
• Relaxes in a tub
  SOAKS

DOWN

• Light browns
  TANS
• ___ to the throne
  HEIR
• Inquires
  ASKS
• Pan for chow mein
  WOK
• Privacy-violating computer programs
  SPYWARE
• Copenhagen resident
  DANE
• Big coffee dispenser
  URN
• Louisiana cuisine
  CREOLE
• Instruments for kids
  TOYPIANOS
• Cozy sweater style
  CHUNKYKNIT
• Camel train’s refuge
  OASIS
• Say again?
  WHAT
• Cone-bearing tree
  FIR
• No harm no ___
  FOUL
• Light beige
  ECRU
• Sea creatures with poisonous blood
  EELS
• Thunder sound
  CLAP
• Personal records
  BESTS
• Aren’t made-up
  EXIST
• Priority section for cars
  VIPPARKING
• Discipline with warrior poses
  YOGA
• Place to hang clothes
  CLOSET
• Perimeter
  EDGE
• Without in French
  SANS
• Daikon for example
  RADISH
• Makes an assertion
  CLAIMS
• Championship symbol
  PENNANT
• Haul into court
  SUE
• Shanghai ___ choy
  BOK
• Surprising plot developments
  TWISTS
• Xie Jun’s game
  CHESS
• Candied ___
  YAMS
• Vicinity
  AREA
• Get taller
  GROW
• Singer Fitzgerald
  ELLA
• Adorkable type
  GEEK
• Places with barbell sets
  GYMS
• ___-hoo!
  YOO
• Language with a Vientiane dialect
  LAO