Newsday.com – Feb 8 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Solutions |
|---|---|
| ”Absolutely!” | YES |
| ”All kidding __ . . .” | ASIDE |
| ”Am not!” reply | ARESO |
| ”That makes sense” | ISEE |
| 11- or 12-year-old | TWEEN |
| Appear to be | SEEM |
| Bats’ underground homes | CAVES |
| Berets and bonnets | HATS |
| Borscht vegetable | BEET |
| Bullring cheer | OLE |
| Bully’s reply | SAYSME |
| Capital of Norway | OSLO |
| Car horn sound | TOOT |
| Charming southern woman | BELLE |
| Child not quite 20 | TEEN |
| Clean vigorously | SCRUB |
| Clock reading | TIME |
| Computer buyer | USER |
| Computer log-in entry | SECRETPASSWORD |
| Cornfield birds | CROWS |
| Cover with concrete | PAVE |
| Decorate again | REDO |
| Direct attention (to) | REFER |
| Eat a formal meal | DINE |
| End of a prayer | AMEN |
| Fearless | BOLD |
| Fireplace residues | ASHES |
| Flat-topped hill | MESA |
| Fork prongs | TINES |
| Fortune tellers | SEERS |
| Frolic | ROMP |
| Granola grain | OAT |
| Groups of warships | FLEETS |
| High-speed pursuits in action films | CARCHASES |
| Hunter’s wooden duck | DECOY |
| Hush-hush spy activity | COVERTOPERATION |
| Kingly address | SIRE |
| Low-power coffees | DECAFS |
| Clues | Solutions |
|---|---|
| Lubricates | OILS |
| Make amends (for) | ATONE |
| Make happy | ELATE |
| Metals in rocks | ORES |
| Moral principle | TENET |
| More unusual | ODDER |
| Mornings: Abbr | AMS |
| Munich mister | HERR |
| One of the Great Lakes | ERIE |
| Opera solo | ARIA |
| Pear variety | BOSC |
| Pebble or boulder | STONE |
| Pirate’s buried stash | HIDDENTREASURE |
| Plumbing tubes | PIPES |
| Poems of praise | ODES |
| Polishes, as shoes | SHINES |
| Prefix meaning ”against” | ANTI |
| Professionals’ charges | FEES |
| Pungent burger topping | ONION |
| Rant and __ | RAVE |
| Remove pencil marks | ERASE |
| Ripped | TORE |
| Roll-call response | HERE |
| School semester | TERM |
| Scottish caps | TAMS |
| Scrooge’s exclamation | BAH |
| Shade tree | ELM |
| Sing in the Alps | YODEL |
| Small songbird | WREN |
| Spuds | TATERS |
| Stand up | RISE |
| States of mind | ATTITUDES |
| Take a risk | DARE |
| Thrifty person | SAVER |
| Wear away | ERODE |
| Wickedness | EVIL |
| Winter or summer | SEASON |
| __ vera (skin-cream ingredient) | ALOE |