Newsday.com – Mar 17 2018
Published in Newsday.com Crossword. Tags: ALPO, ERG, IMO, Old French.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ”America’s First Name in Comfort Since 1901” | HANES |
| ”Heart of Darkness” narrator | MARLOW |
| ”Short short stories,” today | FLASHFICTION |
| 13 years of study | ELHI |
| Advances, with ”up” | STEPS |
| Apt name for a chicken | HENRIETTA |
| Area above an arch | SHIN |
| Assists with deliveries | MIDWIFES |
| At first | NEE |
| Attack, with ”out” | LASH |
| Avert a mishap, say | STOPINTIME |
| BBC’s Sports Personality of the Century | ALI |
| Bold, skillful thing | FEAT |
| Breaking formation? | SURF |
| Capital of a Caspian country | ASTANA |
| Carry out | ACTON |
| Certain costumed cheer leaders | MASCOTS |
| Confessional music | EMO |
| Contorted | WRY |
| Cuisine with vinegar-pickled chilies | HUNAN |
| Cygnus alias | THESWAN |
| Deintensification | THAW |
| Dollars to donuts, jocularly | BET |
| Dynamic rate-adjustment system | SURGEPRICING |
| Electronic engineering exam subject | OHMSLAW |
| Evade, as an issue | BEG |
| Four levels up from knight | EARL |
| Frequent formation on leaves | DEW |
| Ghoulie | IMP |
| Heading | ATOP |
| Hexadeca- fraction | OCTO |
| Hip-hop dance that looks Scottish | NAENAE |
| His crown is stolen in ”The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” | NEPTUNE |
| Home of the youngest Ivy | ITHACA |
| Indonesian grazers | RHINOS |
| Inductee in the Rock & Roll (2000) and Blues (2010) halls of fame | RAITT |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Jaunt | SPIN |
| Kept stinging | ATEAT |
| Lay’s brand named for its pileability | STAX |
| Longest-serving UN head | UTHANT |
| Mass spectrometer product | ION |
| Metaphorical pittance | SONG |
| Mexican wrap | TAQUITO |
| Modern storm front? | TWEET |
| Monitors with GPAs | RAS |
| Must-have | SINEQUANON |
| Needing explanation, perhaps | ASTERISKED |
| No fuddy-duddy | HEP |
| Numerous Founding Fathers | DEISTS |
| Occasion for throwing in and folding | WASHDAY |
| One of two for the devil in ”Faust” | ARIA |
| Order to leave | GONOW |
| Pacific plate phrase | ALOHASTATE |
| Point-of-view prelude | IMO |
| Religion and art, per Cather | KIN |
| Rowing machine, for short | ERG |
| Running off | SHOOING |
| Something said with a facepalm | DOH |
| Speaker with the HomePod | SIRI |
| Spiff up, as realty | STAGE |
| Swell | EXPAND |
| T-Bonz purveyor | ALPO |
| Takes off the back burner | TURNSTO |
| Tea sampler descriptor | ASSORTED |
| The Jordan Valley is its low point | ASIA |
| Title equivalent to ”emperor” | SHAH |
| To a great extent | TONS |
| Unflinching | STEADFAST |
| Video-game alteration, to insiders | MOD |
| Will, in legalese | ISTO |
| Word from Old French for ”portion of food” | MESS |
| Word on the Cirque du Soleil venue list | LAS |