Newsday.com – Jan 23 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ”Gotcha” to a 58 Down |
AYE |
| ”Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his __ and sneezed” (tongue twister) |
KNEES |
| ”__ the melancholy thunder moan’d”: Shelley |
AFAR |
| 16-time screenwriting Oscar nominee |
ALLEN |
| 1930’s freedom fighter |
NEHRU |
| Athlete who refused to play in Germany after 1993 |
SELES |
| Avid |
RAHRAH |
| Befuddled |
ATSEA |
| Black & Decker products |
SABERSAWS |
| Boils down |
DISTILLS |
| Bounce |
OUST |
| Brass |
CHUTZPAH |
| Carry weight |
MATTER |
| Caruso #1 song of 1918 |
OVERTHERE |
| Close one |
PIKER |
| Concoction |
BREW |
| Confound |
STYMIE |
| Convention planner’s concern |
VENUE |
| Curry’s cooling accompaniment |
RAITA |
| Design on some British Airways tailfins |
TARTAN |
| Do more than propose |
PUSHFOR |
| Essence of some reenactments |
APERY |
| First of all |
OPENER |
| Gazetteer entries |
TOWNS |
| Grid failure |
OUTAGE |
| Helps decide |
HASASAYIN |
| Homophone for a paper measure |
CHOIR |
| Inexorable truth |
LOGIC |
| It’s seen in some poker-playing dog prints |
CIGAR |
| Its mission includes ”to create a more informed public” |
NPR |
| Jennifer’s mom on ”Friends” |
MARLO |
| Kept track of |
EYED |
| Martini & Rossi rival |
CINZANO |
| Measure of feet |
METER |
| No longer in doubt |
CEMENTED |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Offer gossip |
DISH |
| Olympic flames are lit at her temple |
HERA |
| One of many on the 61 Across: Abbr |
RTE |
| One of the ”New7Wonders of the World” |
TAJMAHAL |
| One way to the Smithsonian |
METRO |
| Ostentation |
SHOW |
| Ovid’s Juliet |
THISBE |
| Pandora’s box? |
RADIO |
| Paris’ __-Théâtre de l’Europe |
ODEON |
| Pedestrian |
BANAL |
| Reprobate |
WORM |
| Rhyming synonym for ”swab” |
GOB |
| Rio areas visited by Pope Francis and Obama |
FAVELAS |
| Sales, to monthly reps |
CIRC |
| Sequoias, for instance |
MEGAFLORA |
| Shoddy |
JERRYBUILT |
| Shoddy |
CHEAP |
| Sound |
HALE |
| Special gift |
FORTE |
| Spelunking gear |
LAMPS |
| Staples of Byzantine architecture |
DOMES |
| Start using |
ADOPT |
| Subject of a 2015 jukebox musical |
ESTEFAN |
| Sunday driver observed by many |
PROGOLFER |
| Sûreté sap |
CLOUSEAU |
| They’re burned by rebukers |
EARS |
| Trowel cousin |
WEEDER |
| Unswerving |
TRUE |
| Urban protest of a sort |
RENTSTRIKE |
| Wedge |
CRAM |
| Where you might take a powder |
SPICERACK |
| Word from the Turkish for ”bench” |
SOFA |
| Words from one following you |
ISEE |
| Work on the street, maybe |
PAVE |
| Wrigley breath-odor neutralizer |
CARDAMOM |