Here are the answers to USA Crossword puzzles Saturday June 30, 2018.

23-Across with a partner – SPAR
Artful ploys – WILES
Bagel choice – SESAME
Balaam’s mount – ASS
Basis for a patent – IDEA
Bassoon kin – OBOE
Blew one’s cool – SAWRED
Business bigwig – BARON
Cereal high in iron? – STEELMILLET
Check payee, perhaps – BEARER
Cohort of Kent and Olsen – LANE
Collar insert – STAY
Collections of scenes – ACTS
College reunion groups – CLASSES
Compact piano – SPINET
Computer language in Y2K news – COBOL
Conger catcher – EELPOT
Convention venues – ARENAS
Crowd scene actors – EXTRAS
D.C.’s D or C – AVE
Day care attendees – TOTS
Diet soda calorie count, maybe – ONE
Diplomatic break – RIFT
Drum kit parts, for short – TOMS
Easily split mineral – MICA
English spa town – BATH
Fantasy league deals – TRADES
Feline part of a sphinx – LION
Fifth-century invader – ATTILA
Fire engine tool – AXE
First lady after Lady Bird – PAT
Fork-shaped Greek letters – PSIS
Freudian I – EGO
Go a few rounds – BOX
Graham who wrote ‘The Quiet American’ – GREENE
Hathaway of ‘Bride Wars’ – ANNE
Hockey stick wood – ELM
Hospital unit – BED
Ice picker-uppers – TONGS
Illegal pepper trade? – SPICERACKET
Jane Austen title heroine – EMMA

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo – ABE
Learn through the grapevine – HEAR
Left in – KEPT
Lithographers’ supplies – INKS
Low-budget prefix – ECONO
Lures into a crime – ENTRAPS
MASH activity – TRIAGE
Music store buy – AMP
Need an eraser, say – ERR
Needing a rubdown – ACHY
NYPD rank – DET
Org. with a noted journal – AMA
Prefix similar to ‘mono-‘ – UNI
Prefix with arm or bar – DIS
Pricing word – EACH
Protester at an annual NFL event? – DRAFTPICKET
Reason for a second serve, in tennis – NETBALL
Regal fur – ERMINE
Repair, as a road – REPAVE
Repeat for emphasis – ITERATE
Retort to ‘You’re not!’ – IAMSO
Rutabaga or yam – TUBER
Sch. near Harvard – MIT
Seance sound – RAP
Sedona automaker – KIA
Seven-veil dancer – SALOME
Some stadium shapes – OVALS
Textile from Chantilly – LACE
Warrior Princess of TV – XENA
Where Palin governed – ALASKA
Woman tempted in Genesis – EVE
Words after ‘Hi, honey!’ – IMHOME
World of doves? – PEACEPLANET
Wrinkle-resistant fabric – DACRON
Yogi’s chant – MANTRA
___ kwon do – TAE
___-Town (Windy City) – CHI