Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 02, 2015

 Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 02, 2015

Clue	Answer
''Hot'' merchandise	ITEM
''Iliad'' setting	TROY
''On the Road'' narrator	SAL
''Pink Panther Theme'' soloist	SAX
''Primetime'' producer	ABCNEWS
''This is bad!''	OHNO
200-milligram measure	CARAT
Airline founded in 1948	ELAL
Anonymous woman	JANEDOE
April birthstone	DIAMOND
Baloney	EYEWASH
BANNED SWEETENER	CYCLAMATE
Big name in Cuban history	FIDEL
Boxing maneuver	JAB
Bugs on wheels	BEETLES
Called upon	BADE
Campaign contributor	PAC
Capitol feature	PORTICO
Cartier competitor	ROLEX
Certain sportscaster	ANALYST
Clause intro	AND
CLIFFLIKE RIDGE	ESCARPMENT
Commando weapon	UZI
Compass direction	POINT
Consist of	ARE
Crumb carrier	ANT
DIPLOMATIC OFFICES	EMBASSIES
Disney World shuttles	TRAMS
Encouraging word	CMON
Expect (of)	ASK
Face on a fiver	ABE
Farm sound	BAA
Forest's leafy cover	CANOPY
Gave an advance to	LENT
Had no more ideas	RANDRY
Hazy memory	BLUR
Henry's makeover subject	ELIZA
Hotel freebie	PEN
Ill-wisher	ENEMY

Clue	Answer
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR	FREELANCER
Indy safety vehicle	PACECAR
Invitation exhortation	BETHERE
Irving title character	GARP
Isn't exactly alert	SNOOZES
Leigh Oscar role	OHARA
Luxuriant	LUSH
Malian or Mauritanian	AFRICAN
Mental error	LAPSE
Mitterrand successor	CHIRAC
Moisten or malign	BASTE
Music-store storage	CDRACKS
North Dakota state tree	ELM
Nothing but	ALL
Paperless IRS option	EFILE
Planet photographed by Apollo 8	EARTH
Political contests	RACES
Rhyme for ''though''	OWE
Rhyme for ''though''	ROE
Rhyme for ''though''	TOW
Rightful	DUE
Robust	HALE
RUDE BEHAVIOR	INSOLENCE
Shape of some indirect routes	ESS
Streep, as a grad student	ELI
Subj. of Amendments 1-10	RTS
Sustainability prefix	ECO
Swanky	POSH
Sweet wines	PORTS
Top dog	PREXY
Transparent fabric	GAUZE
Turn out	ENDUP
What a shirt collar covers	NAPE
What you can't stand to have	LAP
Where Dresden is capital	SAXONY
Where five ''hidden at 3'' words can be found	SEA
Wood shaper	RASP
Yonder gentleman	HIM
Your choice of	ANY