Newsday.com - February 2 2020
| Clues | Answers |
| ''All bets __ off'' | ARE |
| ''Can't argue with that'' | TRUE |
| ''Lawrence of Arabia'' star | OTOOLE |
| ''Little'' Dickens girl | NELL |
| ''Many years __ . . .'' | AGO |
| ''Murphy Brown'' star | CANDICEBERGEN |
| ''No idea'' | GOTME |
| ''Peer Gynt'' playwright | IBSEN |
| ''The Office'' administrator | PAM |
| ''The Rock'' Johnson | DWAYNE |
| Advil alternative | ALEVE |
| Altercations | SETTOS |
| Approach shot club | IRON |
| Big name in rap | DRDRE |
| Big-box furniture chain | IKEA |
| Big-horned goats | IBEXES |
| Bits of thread | LINT |
| Blu-ray rental | DVD |
| Brainstorming success | NEWIDEA |
| Car wash cycle | RINSE |
| Carded at a club | IDED |
| Carell's assistant in ''Evan Almighty'' | WANDASYKES |
| Carnival amusement | RIDE |
| Cartoon collectibles | CELS |
| Childish comeback | CANSO |
| Choir room garments | ROBES |
| Clandestine govt. org | NSA |
| Classified cost | ADRATE |
| Cold War-era council | SOVIET |
| Commando operation | RAID |
| Conniving | SLY |
| Consequently | ERGO |
| Contributes | ADDSIN |
| Costner or Bacon | KEVIN |
| Crescent points | CUSPS |
| De Klerk successor | NELSONMANDELA |
| Diamond foursome | BASES |
| Dodgers pitching great | SANDYKOUFAX |
| Draw the short straw, say | LOSE |
| Easy to prepare, as desserts | NOBAKE |
| English racetrack town | EPSOM |
| Envelope fasteners | CLASPS |
| Evening, in ads | NITE |
| Exodus brother | AARON |
| Favoritism | BIAS |
| Fender dings | DENTS |
| Fill with joy | ELATE |
| First chip thrown in | ANTE |
| Form an alliance | UNITE |
| Formal turndown | NAY |
| French wine valley | RHONE |
| Garden hose holder | REEL |
| Gemologist's measure | CARAT |
| Genre for 23 or 28 Across | POP |
| German Peace Nobelist | WILLYBRANDT |
| Glittery strands | TINSEL |
| Gourmet gastropod | SNAIL |
| Groups of clerics | ORDERS |
| Gucci of fashion | ALDO |
| Has a hunch | FEELS |
| Helical marker | DNA |
| Henry Ford II's father | EDSEL |
| Huff and puff | PANT |
| Hunter's garb, for short | CAMO |
| Impulsive episode | SPREE |
| In great demand | HOT |
| Inspirational source | MUSE |
| Irk | RILE |
| Ironing mishap | SCORCH |
| It means ''equal'' | ISO |
| Japanese wrestling | SUMO |
| Keep clear of | AVOID |
| Leveling wedge | SHIM |
| Lord's Prayer opening | OUR |
| Low card in a royal flush | TEN |
| Low point | NADIR |
| Macramé elements | KNOTS |
| Major retail operation | CHAIN |
| Make adjustments to | ALTER |
| Makes amends | ATONES |
| Michelangelo masterpiece | DAVID |
| Minor misstatement | FIB |
| Mormon priest | ELDER |
| Narrow escape | SCARE |
| Nation on the Red Sea | ISRAEL |
| Night school subj | ESL |
| Norman Rockwell's painter neighbor | GRANDMAMOSES |
| Northern end of the Appalachian Trail | MAINE |
| Not much of a challenge | EASY |
| Novelist Deighton | LEN |
| Of birds | AVIAN |
| Org. for top drivers | PGA |
| Palm fruit | DATE |
| Part of a simplicity simile | ABC |
| Part of UNLV | LAS |
| Pay out | EXPEND |
| Pep rally shout | YAYTEAM |
| Personal quirk | TIC |
| Pithy saying | ADAGE |
| Portable water source | CANTEEN |
| Postgraduate's project | THESIS |
| Repetitive practice | DRILL |
| Rockies resort | ASPEN |
| Rope on the range | LASSO |
| Salt __ (recipe instruction) | TOTASTE |
| Savory stimulus | ODOR |
| Seaport structure | DOCK |
| Sidekick | PAL |
| Small ''número'' | UNO |
| Small musical ensembles | DUOS |
| Small, sweet sandwich | OREO |
| Sneaker sole pattern | TREAD |
| Something in water or holding water | VESSEL |
| Song superstar | ARIANAGRANDE |
| Soon, in verse | ANON |
| Soul singer Baker | ANITA |
| Soup can artist | ANDYWARHOL |
| Spot of land in the ocean | ISLE |
| Spring zodiac sign | ARIES |
| Subject in English class | NOUN |
| Summer hours in Md | EDT |
| Take the role of | PLAY |
| Talk big | BOAST |
| Tennis great Steffi | GRAF |
| The Big Easy alias | NOLA |
| Theater path | AISLE |
| Tibet's capital | LHASA |
| Trial software | BETAS |
| Trident competitor | DENTYNE |
| TV actress Falco | EDIE |
| Type of high-rise dwelling | CONDO |
| Unpredictable | ERRATIC |
| Very pale | ASHEN |
| Vigorous | BRISK |
| Western writer Bret | HARTE |
| What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common | AND |
| Wildlife protector | WARDEN |
| Wind instruments | OBOES |
| With a candlelike feel | WAXY |
| Without exception | ALWAYS |
| Wizard's concoction | POTION |
| Works with acetylene | WELDS |
| __ monster (Southwestern lizard) | GILA |
| __ nous (confidentially) | ENTRE |
| __' Pea (''Popeye'' infant) | SWEE |
| __-mo replay | SLO |
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