NewsDay Crossword March 21 2023 Answers

• Gear teeth
  COGS
• Navy noncoms: Abbr.
  CPOS
• Tear to shreds
  RIPUP
• Vegetable in gumbo
  OKRA
• Camel’s back feature
  HUMP
• Get out of bed
  ARISE
• Military invasion
  RAID
• Author Quindlen or actress Paquin
  ANNA
• Small gift ‘of appreciation’
  TOKEN
• Sport that includes handSPRINGs
  GYMNASTICS
• Geeky type
  NERD
• Response to ‘Look over there!’
  ISEEIT
• Brand-name of toaster waffles
  EGGOS
• Twist, as a wet towel
  WRING
• Man’s hairpiece
  TOUPEE
• Rolling stone’s supposed lack
  MOSS
• Black road surfaces
  TARS
• Group of top players
  ATEAM
• ‘Caught you!’
  OHO
• Commonplace
  TYPICAL
• Grand Canyon State campus: Abbr.
  ASU
• Remove suds from
  RINSE
• Wild guess
  STAB
• Hawaiian instruments
  UKES
• More inquisitive
  NOSIER
• Rear of a ship
  STERN
• ‘Otherwise . . .’
  IFNOT
• Strikes lightly, as a window
  TAPSAT
• After-dinner candy
  MINT
• Wearable timepiece once made with a mainSPRING
  WRISTWATCH
• Speak without a script
  ADLIB
• On the subject of
  ASTO
• Aloe __ (natural balm)
  VERA
• __ case (regardless)
  INANY
• Speak indistinctly
  SLUR
• Get __ (retaliate)
  EVEN
• ‘Leave immediately’
  NOWGO
• Chicken coop females
  HENS
• Office workstation
  DESK

• Welsh __ (dog breed)
  CORGI
• Gives approval for
  OKAYS
• Laundry dirt
  GRIME
• ‘I’m sorry to say . . .’
  SADNEWS
• Moral purity
  CHASTITY
• Football kick
  PUNT
• Prefix meaning ‘all’
  OMNI
• Parking spot
  SPACE
• Mouse’s long-tailed relative
  RAT
• Resolve, as differences
  IRONOUT
• Mountain near Colorado SPRINGs
  PIKESPEAK
• Tech support caller
  USER
• Remain unresolved
  PEND
• Scuba tank filler
  AIR
• Police rank: Abbr.
  SGT
• Project’s objective
  GOAL
• Midday snoozes
  NAPS
• ‘Hominy’ side dish
  GRITS
• Make less difficult
  EASE
• Ostrich-like birds
  EMUS
• Pre-noon period, in poems
  MORN
• Cleveland’s state
  OHIO
• Male spouses of your offSPRING
  SONSINLAW
• ‘Shoo!’
  SCAT
• Adolescent
  TEEN
• Helpers in crime
  ABETTORS
• Refining, as flour
  SIFTING
• Needing to be topped with asphalt
  UNPAVED
• Line of theater seats
  ROW
• Uncooked, as sushi
  RAW
• Garbage in a can
  TRASH
• Apple cofounder Jobs
  STEVE
• Farmland measures
  ACRES
• Show gratitude to
  THANK
• Of primary importance
  MAIN
• Fig. on a driver’s license
  IDNO
• Castaway’s locale
  ISLE
• Astonish
  STUN
• ‘Liquor not provided’ letters
  BYO