Newsday.com Crossword Answers - Mar 24, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Mar 24, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Am not!'' reply	ARESO
''That's the truth!''	NOLIE
''What's __ for me?''	INIT
18-karat, perhaps	GOLDEN
A single time	ONCE
Aces and jacks	CARDS
Add decorations to	ADORN
Anger	IRE
Approximate takeoff hour: Abbr	ETD
Aroma	ODOR
Band of traveling actors	TROUPE
Barn dweller that hoots	OWL
Batches of laundry	LOADS
Be offended by	MIND
Broke the news to	TOLD
Chew like a squirrel	GNAW
Closeup map	INSET
College grad	ALUM
Computer operator	USER
Confederate soldiers, for short	REBS
Cowardly Oz visitor	LION
Crafty	ARTFUL
Dairy-farm sounds	MOOS
Decides one will	OPTSTO
Dressed (in)	CLAD
Droop, as a flower	WILT
Fraction of a pound	OUNCE
Garden nuisances	WEEDS
Gas-pump rating number	OCTANE
Gather, as crops	REAP
Get help from influential pals	PULLAFEWSTRINGS
Give up rights to	CEDE
Go fishing with a net	TRAWL
Goes inside	ENTERS
Had a hunch about	SENSED
Hair-salon goos	GELS
Hanging loosely	SLACK
Hot-rod vehicle	DRAGRACER
Lasso, for example	ROPE
Look impolitely at	OGLE
Make an escape	FLEE
Make angry	RILE
Medical insurance grps	HMOS
Midterm, for one	TEST
Minor quarrels	SPATS
Nevada city	RENO
New Hampshire neighbor	MAINE
Norway's capital	OSLO
Not as expensive	LESS
Not for children, as a movie	RATEDR
Observed	SEEN
One getting out of bed	RISER
Opera solo	ARIA
Prepare to punch	HAULOFFON
Printer-cartridge fillers	INKS
Robin or wren	BIRD
Russian coins	RUBLES
Sandwich fish	TUNA
Share a border with	ABUT
Shoestrings	LACES
Siamese or Persian pets	CATS
Skin-cream ingredient	ALOE
Snakelike fish	EEL
Sneaky plan	RUSE
Something true	FACT
Spooky	EERIE
Sunrise direction	EAST
Takes suddenly	GRABS
Tex-Mex snack	TACO
Train tracks	RAILS
Urban pollutant	SMOG
Valentine flower	ROSE
Was a passenger on	RODE
Watchful	ALERT
Wobble	TEETER
Woodwind instrument	OBOE
Word of regret	ALAS
Written promise to pay	IOU