Here are the answers to USA Crossword puzzles Wednesday, June 15 2016.

“__ the season ..” – TIS
“A __ formality!” – MERE

“Cut that out!” – DONT
“Zounds!” – OMIGOSH
__ of Cleves – ANNE
Aetna offering, for short – HMO
After, as a bill – AMEND
Atlas was one – TITAN
Black-eyed __ – PEAS
BP merger partner of 1998 – AMOCO
Brooding bird – HEN
California’s Point __ National Seashore – REYES
Casino card game – FARO
Cleveland hoopster, for short – CAV
Comic Roseanne – BARR
Crimson Tide school, for short – BAMA
Dove soap bar shape – OVAL
Dressmaker’s aid – PATTERN
Feature of some theme parks – WATER SLIDE
Fey of “30 Rock” – TINA
Forest destroyers – FIRES
Fruit of the calabash tree – GOURD
Genesis son – ABEL
G-men or T-men – AGENTS
Government that interferes with personal choice – NANNY STATE
Hair salon sound – SNIP
Have __ (be connected) – ANIN
Hay machine – BALER
Housefly’s undoing – SWAT
In seclusion – ALONE
Interior designer Berkus – NATE
Israeli diplomat Eban – ABBA
Like a dust bowl – A RID
Like candy bears – GUMMY
Like Siberian winters – SEVERE
Lint-collecting navel – INNIE
Lone Star State sch. – UTEP
Mall units – STORES
Mansard roof overhang – EAVE
Many a Ned Rorem composition – ART SONG
MBA subj. – ECON
Minds the bar – TENDS

More than dislike – ABHOR
Most new drivers – TEENS
Muscat’s land – OMAN
Neanderthal’s home – CAVE
Obsessive picker-upper – NEAT NIK
On the agenda – SLATED
One of two hogged by a road hog – LANE
Orchard pests – APHIDS
Pastor’s nickname – REV
Patriot Nathan – HALE
Pink end of a #2 – ERASER
Played fiddle, say – BOWED
Potbelly, e.g. – BULGE
Propelled a dinghy – OARED
Quick looks – PEEKS
Racehorse’s father – SIRE
Rodan or Godzilla – MONSTER
Russo of “Nightcrawler” – RENE
Sandberg in Cooperstown – RYNE
Sawyer of fiction – TOM
Scandal suffix that follows the first parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Across – GATE
Short-term financing arrangement – BRIDGE LOAN
Sources of french fries, informally – TATER
Spirited mount – STEED
Spruce up, as text – EDIT
Steel mill waste – SLAG
Superior to – OVER
They’re “fed” at curbs – METERS
Throw off – EMIT
Tie up to a pier – MOOR
Trip taker’s clothes neatener – TRAVEL IRON
Unagi, in sushi bars – EEL
University official – REGENT
Was decked out in – WORE
Weigh station unit – TON
Young Scots – LADS