Newsday.com Crossword Answers - Mar 20, 2014

Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Mar 20, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Downton Abbey'' countess	CORA
''I can hardly wait!''	OHBOY
''Mamma __!''	MIA
''Venus de __''	MILO
Admired one	IDOL
Alternative to contacts	GLASSES
Answers an invitation	RSVPS
Asian capital	SEOUL
Author Wiesel	ELIE
Baby leopard	CUB
Be snoopy	PRY
Before, poetically	ERE
Being aired	ONTV
Beseeches	BEGS
Big name in ranch dressing	HIDDENVALLEY
Blood bank supply	PLASMA
By way of	VIA
Caffeine-rich nut	KOLA
Cajun stew	GUMBO
Chum	PALLY
Close securely	SEAL
Coffee brewer	URN
Collapsed, with ''in''	CAVED
Common computer typeface	ARIAL
Corral, for example	PEN
DVR button	REC
Extremely impressed	AWED
Fallon predecessor	LENO
Get online access	LOGIN
Harsh conditions	RIGORS
Heaven on earth	EDEN
Hold firmly	GRIP
Hunter constellation	ORION
Hyde's alter ego	JEKYLL
Ichabod Crane's home	SLEEPYHOLLOW
In the distant past	BYGONE
Infamous Roman emperor	NERO
Lean back in a chair	RECLINE
Long skirt	MAXI
Maui farewell	ALOHA
Mid-arm malady	TENNISELBOW
Molecule part	ATOM
More frosty	ICIER
Network covering the NYSE	CNBC
Omelet option	ONIONS
Omelet option	BACON
One-celled creatures	AMOEBAE
Parcel (out)	METE
Performs a role	ACTS
Pie __ mode	ALA
Pizzeria appliance	OVEN
Poetic sphere	ORB
Public speaker	ORATOR
Question-mark/exclamation combo	INTERROBANG
Reason to cram	EXAM
Round Table title	SIR
Russian researcher of dogs	PAVLOV
Scornful sound	SNORT
Sen. Hatch's party	GOP
Sign up	ENROLL
Sit for a portrait	POSE
Sp. woman	SRA
Strums, perhaps	PLAYS
Swedish rock foursome	ABBA
T. rex, for one	DINO
Tax pros, for short	CPAS
Thing we share	OURS
Tiger's sound	ROAR
Togo neighbor	GHANA
Took a chair	SAT
Traffic tie-ups	JAMS
Ukraine resort	YALTA
Unstressed vowel sound	SCHWA
Utah national park	BRYCECANYON
Very long time	EON
Web address, for short	URL
Whistle cord	LANYARD
Zhivago's love	LARA