Today's USA Today Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The USA Today

(August 28, 2025)

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• 1. Give a standing ovation - Crossword Clue
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• 5. "___ me!" ("Hope to hear from you!") - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Sport for cowpokes - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Journalist Kotb - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Vicinity - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Social occasion - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Very often - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Word after "exit" or "zodiac" - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Repairs - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Screenwriter who makes revisions - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Grand country house - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Phrase on a neon diner sign - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Rds. - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Tabloid couple - Crossword Clue
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• 33. "I've watched that before" - Crossword Clue
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• 34. Place for a phone, wallet and keys - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Prepares to shoot an arrow - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Dreamer's collage - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Destroy - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Come apart at the ___ - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Long, narrow ditch - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Not pro- - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Pop a squat - Crossword Clue
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• 50. Guarantees - Crossword Clue
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• 52. Ordinary fella - Crossword Clue
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• 54. Measures of businesses' dominance - Crossword Clue
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• 58. "Morning Joe" network - Crossword Clue
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• 61. Big-screen movie format - Crossword Clue
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• 62. Unconscious ___ (hiring concern) - Crossword Clue
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• 63. Body part that a tear might roll down - Crossword Clue
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• 64. Romantic tango moves - Crossword Clue
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• 65. "Colossal" actress Hathaway - Crossword Clue
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• 66. Clairvoyants - Crossword Clue
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• 67. Kamounia or goulash - Crossword Clue
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• 68. Reply to "Shall we?" - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Deep fissures - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Online feline who might request "treets plz" - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Decorates - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Grilling spot - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Playbill listing - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Bone-dry - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Toy brand that makes a Millennium Falcon kit - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Jousting weapon - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Far-off - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Happens to catch, like a conversation - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Leopard's lair - Crossword Clue
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• 12. The be-all and ___-all - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Periods such as 10th innings, for short - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Toyota hybrid - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Prof's helpers - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Emma Myers' role in "Wednesday" - Crossword Clue
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• 26. A swish doesn't touch it, in basketball - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Beings such as ALF, for short - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Prefix for -cycle or -dent - Crossword Clue
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• 31. That, in Spanish - Crossword Clue
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• 32. "My Year in ___" (podcast about a high-IQ society) - Crossword Clue
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• 34. ATM code, redundantly - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Competes - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Obi-Wan Kenobi's alias - Crossword Clue
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• 38. "Overnight" breakfast bit - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Like many residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Crossword Clue
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• 40. GPS rec - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Coffee holder - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Fissures - Crossword Clue
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• 45. See 59-Down - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Holy place - Crossword Clue
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• 48. "Let me rephrase . . ." - Crossword Clue
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• 49. Throws out - Crossword Clue
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• 51. Slides on the road - Crossword Clue
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• 53. Conspiring group - Crossword Clue
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• 55. Give off, like heat or vibes - Crossword Clue
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• 56. Adhesive in a roll - Crossword Clue
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• 57. TX film festival whose "W" stands for "west" - Crossword Clue
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• 58. Hosts, for short - Crossword Clue
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• 59. With 45-Down, pronoun pair for some women - Crossword Clue
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• 60. Formerly named - Crossword Clue
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