Newsday.com – Aug 5 2018
Published in Newsday.com Crossword. Tags: ERASE, IDEAL, LINED, ONUS, RAYS, SPAT, TV.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ”Army” offspring | BRAT |
| ”Attack, Fido!” | SICEM |
| ”Closing Bell” airer | CNBC |
| ”Peter Pan” dog | NANA |
| ”Sure!” | YES |
| ”That’s what friends __ for” | ARE |
| ”__ all good” | ITS |
| ‘Hood salutation | BRO |
| About 12,000 insect species | ANTS |
| About 350,000 insect species | BEETLES |
| About six trillion mi | LTYR |
| Adds while cooking | STIRSIN |
| Adopted, as a pet | TOOKIN |
| Any of the Florida Keys | ISLET |
| Appeals to | TEMPTS |
| Ares instigations | WARS |
| Armada craft | SHIP |
| At the apex of | ATOP |
| Attired for the office | INASUIT |
| Baby’s first bed | CRIB |
| Backspace over, say | ERASE |
| Bank holding company (Washington Wizards and Capitals) | CAPITALONE |
| Best possible | IDEAL |
| Bibliography abbr | ETAL |
| Blood bank supply | SERUM |
| Botch something | ERR |
| Box spring supporter | SLAT |
| Broke off | ENDED |
| Brokerage firm (St. Louis Blues) | SCOTTRADE |
| Burden | ONUS |
| By __ of (owing to) | DINT |
| C.S. Lewis land | NARNIA |
| Camera type, for short | SLR |
| Camp David Accords signer | SADAT |
| Cartoonists’ assistants | INKERS |
| Certain sandwich with Swiss | MELT |
| Character created by Pixar | TOON |
| Christmas carol | NOEL |
| Colorful aquarium swimmer | TETRA |
| Confused states | FOGS |
| Couric of TV news | KATIE |
| Cul-de-__ | SAC |
| Disneyland shuttle | TRAM |
| Double-crosser | RAT |
| Drag (away) | TOW |
| Engineering school, for short | TECH |
| Ensnare | TRAP |
| Exploit to the extreme | MILK |
| Financial services giant (2006-2018, New Jersey Devils) | PRUDENTIAL |
| Financial services giant (Arizona State U.) | WELLSFARGO |
| First all-vegetable-oil shortening | CRISCO |
| Foes of the 65 Across | ROMANS |
| Forest Whitaker Oscar role | IDIAMIN |
| Frequent European erupter | ETNA |
| Fruit-beverage maker (Tampa Bay 131 Across) | TROPICANA |
| Full of zeal | ARDENT |
| Fuss | ADO |
| Galaxy Tab alternative | IPAD |
| Geese formation | VEE |
| Gentle | MILD |
| German forebears | TEUTONS |
| Get to volunteer | ENLIST |
| Get weepy | CRY |
| How ’90s digital encyclopedias were bought | ONCD |
| How notebook paper is printed | LINED |
| Improv performer | COMIC |
| In the past | ONCE |
| Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians) | PROGRESSIVE |
| Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets) | NATIONWIDE |
| It first met in 1789 | SENATE |
| Jazz great Fitzgerald | ELLA |
| Jokester’s prod | GETIT |
| Junction points | NODES |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Keats or Coleridge | ODIST |
| Left Coast state, informally | CALI |
| Links standard | PAR |
| Long-legged bird | STILT |
| Major league hitters | BATSMEN |
| Mambo king Puente | TITO |
| Manner of walking | GAIT |
| Manners of running | TROTS |
| Memorandum | NOTE |
| Metaphor for intrigue | WEB |
| Middle of the fourth century | CCCLI |
| Mongolian desert | GOBI |
| Monogram components: Abbr | INITS |
| More high-strung | TAUTER |
| Most minimal amount | IOTA |
| Needing some body work | DENTED |
| Neither fish __ fowl | NOR |
| Noteworthy periods | ERAS |
| Novelist Pasternak | BORIS |
| One of Marvel’s original Avengers | THOR |
| Online commerce | ETAIL |
| Online lender (Cleveland Cavaliers) | QUICKENLOANS |
| Page for website help | FAQ |
| Piece of okra | POD |
| Pirate portrayer in ”The Princess Bride” | ELWES |
| Place for filming | SET |
| Place with thermal waters | SPA |
| Playing a role | ACTING |
| Presidential nickname | CAL |
| Presses, as dresses | IRONS |
| Prone to mischief making | ANTIC |
| Pub serving | ALE |
| Pub vessel | STEIN |
| Raced down slopes | SKIED |
| Renewable energy source | SUN |
| River known for its banks | SEINE |
| Roaring group | PRIDE |
| Salon sounds | SNIPS |
| Saturn or Jupiter | GOD |
| See 100 Across | RAYS |
| See 17 Across | NIN |
| Shape of a smile | ARC |
| Show shock | GASP |
| Slight fight | SPAT |
| Smeltery refuse | DROSS |
| Southwestern tie | BOLO |
| Sport with clay pigeons | SKEET |
| Steer catcher | LASSO |
| Sugarloaf locale | RIO |
| Tamed, for a cowpoke | RIDEABLE |
| Telecommunications company (Seattle Seahawks) | CENTURYLINK |
| Test for coll. seniors | GRE |
| Theme of the puzzle | NAMINGRIGHTS |
| Touches up, as text | EMENDS |
| Toys with tails | KITES |
| Typical homework assignment | READING |
| UFO crew | ETS |
| Unable to look away | STARING |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer | LIN |
| Vouch for | ATTESTTO |
| Well-worn pencil | STUB |
| What ”p” means to pianists | SOFTLY |
| What you eat | DIET |
| What’s turned for much 29 Down | PAGES |
| With 9 Down, French diarist | ANAIS |
| Without peer | ALONE |
| Word of warning | DONT |
| Word of warning | STOP |
| Yankee great Jeter | DEREK |
| __ Arbor, MI | ANN |
| __ to go (gung-ho) | RARIN |
| __’-shanter | TAMO |
| __-Xer (boomer’s kid) | GEN |