Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 04, 2015

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 04, 2015

Clue	Answer
''Didn't mean to do that''	OOPS
''Dilbert'' cartoonist	ADAMS
''Rags-to-riches'' author	ALGER
1988 presidential candidate	DUKAKIS
2016 Olympics city	RIO
Actress Ullmann	LIV
Advertising award	CLIO
Ancestry	ROOTS
Ancestry	BLOOD
Arcane-detail experts	WONKS
Arrive on the sly	STEALIN
Assigned function	ROLE
Aunt Millie's alternative	RAGU
Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel	STOWE
Bagpipe sound	DRONE
Barnyard sound	OINK
Beagle biters	FLEAS
British landmark auctioned off in 1915	STONEHENGE
Budget-graph border lines	ARCS
Budget-graph border lines	RADII
Burbank, for instance	BOTANIST
Came up short	FAILED
Cardiology readings: Abbr	EKGS
Cell-phone company bought by Microsoft	NOKIA
Chooses	OPTSFOR
City in Colombia	CALI
Collaborative website	WIKI
Complains	MOANS
Completely	INFULL
Comprehension	GRASP
Conscious	SENTIENT
Cow or camel	RUMINANT
Creator of the Grinch	SEUSS
Curtain holders	RODS
Depleted	EMPTY
Desert formations	DUNES
Doll first sold in 1915	RAGGEDYANN
Dollars and cents	MONEY
Dutch cheese	EDAM
Embodiments	SOULS
Ending for infant	ILE
Engineers for Watson	IBMERS
Exams for drs. to be	MCATS
Face-to-face exams	ORALS
Faux __ (misstep)	PAS
Fills completely	SATES
First half of an LP	SIDEA
First word in the ''Star Trek'' intro	SPACE
First-string players	ATEAM
Flood barriers	LEVEES
Foundation of farming	SOIL
French fashion monogram	YSL
Galaxy Tab alternative	IPAD
Go along	AGREE
Go-between	AGENT
Golden Rule preposition	UNTO
Grammy Award category	OPERA
Grandma	NANA
Great time	BLAST
Grist for some mills	RUMORS
Harry Potter series messengers	OWLS
Having fun	HAPPY
He painted his ''Poet Reclining'' in 1915	MARCCHAGALL
His ''Birth of a Nation'' premiered in 1915	DWGRIFFITH
His novella ''The Metamorphosis'' was published in 1915	FRANZKAFKA
Home appliance introduced in 1915	REFRIGERATOR
Homer's eldest	BART
Hotel patron	GUEST
In pursuit of	AFTER
Infuriate	ANGER
Investor's insurance	HEDGE
Irving Berlin tune of 1915	ILOVEAPIANO

Clue	Answer
Letters often near 0	OPER
London art museum	TATE
Lots of land	ACRES
Make alterations	TAILOR
Make public	AIR
Makes uniform	EVENS
Male 43 Across	COB
Marina __ Rey, CA	DEL
Milk designation	GRADEA
Minimal amount	IOTA
Modern artist Mondrian	PIET
Mountain lion	COUGAR
Noshed on	ATE
Number used by pilots	NINER
On the player roster	ACTIVE
Oscar actress Marisa	TOMEI
Out of whack	AMISS
Part of RSVP	SIL
People with fan clubs	IDOLS
Performs in an orchestra	PLAYS
Personality parts	EGOS
Plate refills	SECONDS
Poker opener, perhaps	ANTE
Poker opener, perhaps	PAIR
Present unfairly	SKEW
Pulled along	TOWED
Pun reaction, perhaps	HAHA
Pun reaction, perhaps	OUCH
Relay-race segment	LEG
Responsibilities, so to speak	HATS
Roasting venue	OVEN
Robe part	SLEEVE
Roof projections	EAVES
Rubber gasket	ORING
Rubber product	BAND
Saturate (with)	IMBUE
Saturated (with)	AWASH
School in L.A	USC
Search (through)	SIFT
Secondary map	INSET
Seismological events	TREMORS
Send off, as invitations	MAILOUT
Set of standards	CODE
Showed to a seat, slangily	USHED
Sitar melody	RAGA
Small evergreen	LAUREL
Smartphone operating system	ANDROID
Social class	CASTE
Sounds from 6 Across	HOOTS
Space-saving abbr	ETC
Stamp on a letter	POSTMARK
Subtle signal	WINK
Symbol of grace	SWAN
Symbol of sanctity	HALO
Talk big	BOAST
Tax-law experts: Abbr	CPAS
Telltale sign	ODOR
Term in bowling, baseball and basketball	FOULLINE
Then	IFSO
They hear ''You've got mail''	AOLERS
Those on foot, for short	PEDS
Turned out to be	ENDEDUP
Type of lager beer	PILSENER
Type of phone call first made in 1915	COASTTOCOAST
Water down	DILUTE
Water source	SPIGOT
Whodunit story	ALIBI
Willy Wonka creator	DAHL
Work-weary exclamation	TGIF
Yoga accessory	MAT
[I'm frightened!]	GASP
__-Carlton (hotel chain)	RITZ