Today's USA Today Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The USA Today

(August 16, 2025)

ACROSS

• 1. Lightbulb unit - Crossword Clue
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• 5. It might help a dachshund get on the bed - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Subject with notes and keys - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Prefix with "pop" or "futurism" - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Olympic sword - Crossword Clue
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• 16. 2024 Oscar winner starring Mikey Madison - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Home to Naqsh-e Jahan Square - Crossword Clue
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• 18. ___ queen - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Muscle-bone connector - Crossword Clue
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• 20. "Now you see it . . . now you don't" performance - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Letters on an ambulance - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Dial-up pioneer - Crossword Clue
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• 25. ___ and Herzegovina - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Newish - Crossword Clue
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• 31. Mail hole - Crossword Clue
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• 33. UFO pilots - Crossword Clue
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• 34. Rizzo or Miss Bianca - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Holier-than-___ - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Apt anagram of "vile" - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Drawbacks - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Brood - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Do an autumn chore - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Substance that's an anagram of 34- and 43-Across - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Valuable oil? - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Hi-top ___ (hairstyle) - Crossword Clue
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• 45. Evades - Crossword Clue
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• 48. Nut in some Indian curries - Crossword Clue
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• 50. Animation still - Crossword Clue
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• 51. Letters that might follow a heartfelt text - Crossword Clue
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• 52. Helen Keller's teacher and companion - Crossword Clue
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• 56. Dark Horse publication - Crossword Clue
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• 59. Large desert in Asia - Crossword Clue
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• 60. Mo. when the US Open ends - Crossword Clue
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• 61. Responded to an alarm, perhaps - Crossword Clue
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• 62. Laudatory poems - Crossword Clue
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• 63. Luxuriant - Crossword Clue
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• 64. Key ingredient in bread - Crossword Clue
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• 65. Girl scout accessory - Crossword Clue
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• 66. Most Kongs in "Donkey Kong" lore - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Document signed before a hang gliding lesson - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Style of many a cozy cabin - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Records handled by a registrar's office - Crossword Clue
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• 4. "Knives Out" actress Collette - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Sizzling - Crossword Clue
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• 6. National Pet Day month - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Cruel - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Simon of "Hot Fuzz" fame - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Toucan Sam, e.g. - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Syllabus sections - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Luke, vis-a-vis Anakin and Padme - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Anger - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Crow sound - Crossword Clue
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• 21. North Pole resident - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Ish - Crossword Clue
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• 26. "You got this!" - Crossword Clue
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• 27. "___ what ___" ("That's life") - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Communication system used at Gallaudet U - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Lack of difficulty - Crossword Clue
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• 31. "___ It Off" - Crossword Clue
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• 32. Only - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Prime-time promo - Crossword Clue
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• 36. "Good heavens!" - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Explorer who travels with Boots - Crossword Clue
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• 38. Sketched - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Ring-shaped coral formation - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Big ___ (Whopper competitor) - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Person who might wield a 15-Across - Crossword Clue
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• 45. "Yummo!" - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Pass by - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Moogs, e.g. - Crossword Clue
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• 49. Seventeen-syllable poem - Crossword Clue
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• 50. Six-sided dice shapes - Crossword Clue
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• 53. Senses of self - Crossword Clue
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• 54. Pop - Crossword Clue
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• 55. Puerto Rico, por ejemplo - Crossword Clue
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• 56. Half-___ (rhyming coffee order) - Crossword Clue
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• 57. Bird that gives a hoot - Crossword Clue
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• 58. Cow's greeting - Crossword Clue
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