Newsday.com – Sep 23 2018
Published in Newsday.com Crossword. Tags: ENTIRE, ERASE, ETA, PACE.
Clues | Answers |
”. . . __ iron bars a cage” | NOR |
”Casablanca” woman | ILSA |
”Conan” airer | TBS |
”To __ own self be true” | THINE |
”Who’s on First?” straight man | ABBOTT |
747 rival | TRISTAR |
A word with you | ARE |
Actress Zellweger | RENEE |
After-school event sponsor | PTA |
Allow to observe | LETSEE |
Alludes to | CITES |
Amp-jack label | MIC |
Angry state | IRE |
Arabian sultanate | OMAN |
Arizona river | GILA |
As long as | WHILE |
B-school statistical subject | ECONOMETRICS |
Basket for bass | CREEL |
Bear flowers | BLOOM |
Between extremes | INTERMEDIATE |
Big name in cognac | HENNESSY |
Bit of dust | MOTE |
Blows off steam | RANTS |
Bottom-of-barrel | WORST |
Campus quarters | DORMS |
Capone, through much of the ’30s | INMATE |
Casting director’s type | INGENUE |
Caused to clam up | SILENCED |
Celebrated period | ERA |
Charitable recipient | DONEE |
Charlie Brown outburst | RATS |
Chem lab colorant | LITMUS |
Chimed | RANG |
Come up | ARISE |
Completely opposite | POLAR |
Convenient feature | AMENITY |
Cry of success | TADA |
Defeats | UPENDS |
Dental image | XRAY |
Descends slowly | SINKS |
Designer Cassini | OLEG |
Desktop art | ICON |
Desktop option | MAC |
Discussion venue | FORUM |
Don’t really try | COAST |
Dozen in a box | JURY |
Drama teacher’s deg., often | MFA |
Evening bash | SOIREE |
Evergreen herb | SAGE |
Eye-color determinant | GENE |
Face-down | PRONE |
False account | LIE |
Family nickname | DAD |
FDR successor | HST |
First family’s home | EDEN |
Follow aggressively | DOG |
Forestation limit | TREELINE |
Freedom from self-centeredness | MODESTY |
Freeloader | LEECH |
French farewell | ADIEU |
Friends of the family, often | PETS |
Garden adornment | GNOME |
Gives advice to | COUNSELS |
Govt. intel group | NSA |
GPS lines | RDS |
Gross fraction | DOZEN |
Had in mind | MEANT |
Hair preparation | RINSE |
Hang out to dry, say | AIR |
Helpful contacts | INS |
How saints are often painted | HALOED |
III, in modern Rome | TRE |
Incentivizes | SPURS |
Indistinct sound | MURMUR |
Influences, as one’s opinion | COLORS |
Insert, as text | PASTE |
It inspired the Frisbee | PIEPAN |
It wears on a tire | TREAD |
Jockey’s concern | PACE |
Joining of giants | MEGAMERGER |
Leak slowly | SEEP |
Less congenial | ICIER |
Letter-closing word | YOURS |
Makes a blunder | ERRS |
Many Manets | OILS |
Mixed with extraneous matter | IMPURE |
Most clearly embarrassed | REDDEST |
Moves a little | BUDGES |
Mr. Peanut accessory | CANE |
Musical postscript | CODA |
Noble mounts | STEEDS |
Not so forthright | SLIER |
Omen | SIGN |
On hand | HERE |
One of Canada’s First Nations | CREE |
One on the move | GOER |
One with a Visa, say | CARDMEMBER |
Ones close-by | THESE |
Opinion piece | ESSAY |
Opposite sides | FOES |
Outfits for attorneys | FIRMS |
Paris-born philosopher | SARTRE |
PlayStation alternative | XBOX |
Poetic contraction | EER |
Presented evidence for | DOCUMENTED |
Quarterback setback | SACK |
Rapper seen on ”Law & Order: SVU” | ICET |
Rather close | SIMILAR |
Reciprocal | MUTUAL |
Refinable minerals | ORES |
Reflector in some telescopes | PRISM |
Run-down | SEEDY |
Sauté and simmer | BRAISE |
Small cut | SNIP |
Some track stars | MILERS |
Sorority letter | ETA |
Sort of steak | TBONE |
South African Peace Nobelist | TUTU |
Started a hole | TEED |
Stiffly formal | PRIM |
Supposed source of Solomon’s wealth | MINES |
Tending to moralize | JUDGMENTAL |
Thorny plant | BRIER |
Titles differently | RENAMES |
To some degree, slangily | SORTA |
Tract fraction, perhaps | ACRE |
Turn sugar brown | CARAMELIZE |
Two-legged support | BIPOD |
Unabridged | ENTIRE |
Uncluttered | NEAT |
Under siege | BESET |
Up on a globe | NORTH |
Valhalla VIP | ODIN |
Via, for short | THRU |
Vocally scratchy | HOARSE |
W. Florida city | STPETE |
Wagon wheel connector | AXLE |
What a dessert tray is meant to be | TEMPTER |
What oxygen lacks | ODOR |
White wader | EGRET |
Whole slew | SCAD |
Wipe off | ERASE |
With a flickery glow | SHIMMERING |
__ about (circa) | ONOR |
__ later date | ATA |
__ with faint praise | DAMNS |