NewsDay Crossword January 20 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Far from riveting
  BLAH
• Play group
  ACTS
• Glossy reading
  MAG
• Shade close to plum
  LILAC
• Hard to find: Lat.
  RARA
• Tree-lined walk
  MALL
• Buffett’s birthplace
  OMAHA
• Decorative material
  TRIM
• Large fair
  EXPO
• Energy expenditure at rest
  BASALMETABOLISM
• Opposite of ‘enhance’
  MAR
• Benefit
  SAKE
• Gerald Ford’s major at UMich
  ECON
• Bakery assortment
  RYES
• Plastic patch
  DECAL
• Savings bank, to Wall Streeters
  THRIFT
• Water transporter
  PIPE
• Many a silicate
  ORE
• World-famous
  HIGHLYACCLAIMED
• ‘Based __ true story’
  ONA
• Noncommittal conclusion
  ORSO
• Pressing
  URGENT
• Fish-finding aid
  SONAR
• Rouse from inactivity
  STIR
• ‘Simpsons’ bus driver
  OTTO
• Oppose boldly
  DEFY
• Chi preceder
  TAI
• Result of planetary rotation
  EQUATORIALBULGE
• Pointed tip of a tooth
  CUSP
• Clears (of)
  RIDS
• Taken as a whole
  INALL
• Hilarious experience
  RIOT
• Soft rock
  TALC
• What the three long answers end with, in brief
  SIZES
• Emotional peaks
  UPS
• Pop singer from Donegal
  ENYA
• Newcastle’s river
  TYNE

DOWN

• Bit of paint
  BLOB
• South American capital
  LIMA
• ‘Regrettably . . .’
  ALAS
• A few laughs
  HAHA
• Major road
  ARTERY
• Shopper’s selection
  CART
• Period when dinosaurs appeared
  TRIASSIC
• Rio rhythm
  SAMBA
• Long suit
  MAXI
• They run through northern Italy
  ALPS
• Rip off
  GLOM
• Storm warning, supposedly
  CALM
• Fight, from the French
  MELEE
• Many a saint
  MARTYR
• Conflict avoidance phrase
  OKDEAR
• Group character
  ETHOS
• Coarse cotton
  CHINO
• Bach’s instrument
  ORGAN
• US medical research agency
  NIH
• Where to see Spaceship Earth
  EPCOT
• One of Santa’s team
  COMET
• Negative contraction
  ARENT
• Brought about
  LEDTO
• Bit of broccoli
  FLORET
• What deer can be
  PLURAL
• Ancient Mesopotamian
  ASSYRIAN
• ‘Where did __ right?’ (‘Producers’ line)
  IGO
• Alter for a new medium
  ADAPT
• Lake source of the Mississippi
  ITASCA
• Long suit
  FORTE
• Heron cousin
  IBIS
• Hosiery hue
  ECRU
• Pointed line
  QUIP
• GI hangouts
  USOS
• Without purpose
  IDLY
• Military detachment
  UNIT
• Not inclined to hustle
  LAZY
• Narrow lowland
  GLEN
• Besides this
  ELSE