Newsday.com - Dec 16 2018
Clues | Answers |
''Mamma Mia!'' quartet | ABBA |
''No man is an island'' writer | DONNE |
''Street'' rep | CRED |
About 2.2 pounds | KILO |
AdolesCENT phase | GROWTHSPURT |
Airplane __ (cellphone setting) | MODE |
Apt rhyme for 6 Down | BARES |
Arguing vehemently | ATIT |
Arthur __ Stadium (U.S. Open venue) | ASHE |
Artist Chagall | MARC |
Aspen attire | SKIPANTS |
Audacious | BOLD |
Australian actor Eric | BANA |
Battery pole | ANODE |
Be boastful | CROW |
Be insistent about | URGE |
Be relevant | APPLY |
Beach volleyball airer | ESPN |
Big name on Dirty Harry posters | CLINT |
Blu-ray purchase | DISC |
Boston's airport | LOGAN |
Built up, as interest | ACCRUED |
Carded, informally | IDED |
Carrying a grudge | SORE |
Certain Summer Games setting | POOL |
Child's plea for permission | CANI |
City north of 27 Across, informally | BOCA |
City southeast of Mount Rainier | YAKIMA |
City that might be ONION in a cryptogram | MIAMI |
Common bake-sale sponsor | PTA |
ConCENTrated study plan | CRAMCOURSE |
Corp. bigwigs | CEOS |
Creator of the Finches | LEE |
Cropped up | AROSE |
Crude one | BRUTE |
Crunchy ice-cream ingredient | OREO |
Cutting down on the donuts | DIETING |
Data on tickets | ROWS |
Daycare attendees | TOTS |
Desolate regions | WILDS |
Despicable character | LOUSE |
Destructive sprees | RAMPAGES |
Did absolutely nothing | LOLLED |
Drop gradually | SINK |
Durable game-show guy | SAJAK |
Easy basket | TAPIN |
Erode | EAT |
Established first | OLDEST |
Exert, as influence | WIELD |
Exotic smoothie flavor | ACAI |
Expected outcome | NORM |
Explanatory lead-in | IDEST |
Far from charitable | MEAN |
Farming major | AGGIE |
Feline, to Tweety | TAT |
Ferris wheel compartments | CARS |
Fish with an iridesCENT stripe | NEONTETRA |
FluoresCENT art medium | DAYGLOPAINT |
Formal confession | ITWASI |
Former CIA head Panetta | LEON |
Former Comedy CENTral host | JONSTEWART |
Gladiator star | CROWE |
Goes public with | AIRS |
Gooey-middle chocolates | CREMES |
Hi-__ monitor | RES |
Homer's boy | BART |
Identical | SAME |
Illustrious | NOTED |
Imbibed | DRANK |
In a way, casually | SORTA |
In support of | FOR |
Initial lessons | ABCS |
Institutions offering admissions | COLLEGES |
Inventor Whitney, as an undergrad (!) | ELI |
Iron source | ORE |
Italian sonnet's end | SESTET |
Job-related move, to employers | RELO |
Jokingly | ALLINFUN |
Less humid | DRIER |
Look impolitely at | OGLE |
Loosens, as a 35 Down | UNTIES |
MagnifiCENT | SUMPTUOUS |
Major blood vessels | AORTAS |
Male turkey | TOM |
Mooed | LOWED |
Mooring place | DOCK |
Music genre prefix | ALT |
Nest-egg letters | IRA |
Nonwoven fabric | SUEDE |
Off in the distance | AFAR |
OK Corral nickname | DOC |
Oscar actress Hathaway | ANNE |
Parks of civil rights history | ROSA |
Pet pest | FLEA |
Piece of a place setting | FORK |
Pilots of 89 Down | ETS |
Place for protons | ATOM |
Polishes, as prose | EMENDS |
Port of Yemen | ADEN |
Predicament | SPOT |
Prefix for van or bus | MINI |
Preordain | DESTINE |
President at the biCENTennial | GERALDFORD |
Pretzel shape | KNOT |
Princeton athlete | TIGER |
Provide for permanently | ENDOW |
Rancho beast | TORO |
RetiCENT | TIGHTLIPPED |
Rubber duck, for one | BATHTOY |
Rude remark | INSULT |
Sailor's means of asCENT | ROPELADDER |
See 75 Down | ROMEO |
Serpent's sound | HISS |
Ship's backbone | KEEL |
Shoemaker's supply | HEELS |
Singer portrayed by J.Lo | SELENA |
Six Day War hero | DAYAN |
Small advantage | EDGE |
Smartphone image | ICON |
Somali-born supermodel | IMAN |
Spiral-horned antelope | ELAND |
State of vexation | STEW |
Strange sightings, for short | UFOS |
Strong drain opener | LYE |
Sushi bar beverage | GREENTEA |
Taboo, to 17 Down | NONO |
Teen comedy stock character | NERD |
Temporary, as a committee | ADHOC |
Texter's ''incidentally'' | BTW |
Thus | ERGO |
Titanic | HUGE |
Toaster-oven setting | BROIL |
Turkey neighbor | IRAN |
Untrustworthy ones | LIARS |
Unwilling to compromise | SET |
Urban renewal target | SLUM |
URL punctuation | DOTS |
Violinmaker of Cremona | AMATI |
Waiting for Godot character | DIDI |
Walks heavily | TRAMPS |
Wavering effects, in music | TREMOLOS |
When shadows are shortest | NOON |
Wipe clean | ERASE |
With 21 Across, Italian auto | ALFA |
__ Canaria Island | GRAN |
__ firma | TERRA |
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