USA Today Crossword February 16 2023 Answers (2/16/23)

USA Today is a publication in the United States that offers a daily crossword puzzle each day, which does not require a subscription or an account to play. This post shares all of the answers to the USA Today Crossword published February 16 2023. Please view today’s USA Today Crossword Answers for most recent answers.

USA Today Crossword Solution Guide

Here are all of the answers for the recently-published USA Today Crossword. Click/tap on the crossword clue to see the answer (this prevents accidentally spoiling for other clues if you are just looking for a few answers!).

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Clue
'. . . but I ___'
'Definitely!'
'Great, one more thing to be terrified about'
'Howdy!'
'My mind is blown!'
'No shoes in the house,' for example
'Smooth Operator' singer
'Take this one'
'___ Down' (Diana Ross hit)
'___? For spring? Groundbreaking' (sarcastic line in 'The Devil Wears Prada')
100%
Ab exercise
Actress Linney
Apple pie ___ mode
Capital of Tamil Nadu, India
Chaotic crowd
Chaotic fight
Comes to a close
Counterparts of flats, in music
Des Moines' state
Falsehoods
Flag holder
Fluffy precipitation
Get larger
Ginger ___
Golfer's target
Government agents
Greenish-blue hue
Groups of organized workers
Hard precipitation
Honolulu's island
Intelligence org. in the Susan Williams book 'White Malice'
Is looking for
Kung ___ chicken
Language in Pakistan
Liquid ingredient in soups
Loud bird
Mischievous
Name that becomes a direction if you add a T
Name that means 'born again'
Nectar collector
Not as common
Not happy
Not right
Not stored in an easy-to-find place
Number that sometimes follows LGBTQIA
Part of PPV or mpg
Past partners
Perfectly round object
Plumbing tubes
Promotional paragraph
Rodeo rope
Salt Lake City's state
Shade of lipstick or heels
Shovel relative
Skillet, for example
Snake-haired figure in Greek myth
Soft leather
Sound transmission
Stick in a test kit
Take the ___ (assume control)
Talks a big game
Tears into shreds
Tool for cutting wood
Tool for splitting wood
Translation of 'yo soy'
Turn with a spatula
Unfairly deprive
Unwanted trail in a kitchen
Visibly unsafe for eating
What a phoenix rises from
Winter Olympics athlete
___ and rave
___ Kippur
___ nova (Brazilian music style)

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