Newsday.com - Feb 8 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - Feb 8 2016

Clues	Answers
''Absolutely!''	YES
''All kidding __ . . .''	ASIDE
''Am not!'' reply	ARESO
''That makes sense''	ISEE
11- or 12-year-old	TWEEN
Appear to be	SEEM
Bats' underground homes	CAVES
Berets and bonnets	HATS
Borscht vegetable	BEET
Bullring cheer	OLE
Bully's reply	SAYSME
Capital of Norway	OSLO
Car horn sound	TOOT
Charming southern woman	BELLE
Child not quite 20	TEEN
Clean vigorously	SCRUB
Clock reading	TIME
Computer buyer	USER
Computer log-in entry	SECRETPASSWORD
Cornfield birds	CROWS
Cover with concrete	PAVE
Decorate again	REDO
Direct attention (to)	REFER
Eat a formal meal	DINE
End of a prayer	AMEN
Fearless	BOLD
Fireplace residues	ASHES
Flat-topped hill	MESA
Fork prongs	TINES
Fortune tellers	SEERS
Frolic	ROMP
Granola grain	OAT
Groups of warships	FLEETS
High-speed pursuits in action films	CARCHASES
Hunter's wooden duck	DECOY
Hush-hush spy activity	COVERTOPERATION
Kingly address	SIRE
Low-power coffees	DECAFS

Clues	Answers
Lubricates	OILS
Make amends (for)	ATONE
Make happy	ELATE
Metals in rocks	ORES
Moral principle	TENET
More unusual	ODDER
Mornings: Abbr	AMS
Munich mister	HERR
One of the Great Lakes	ERIE
Opera solo	ARIA
Pear variety	BOSC
Pebble or boulder	STONE
Pirate's buried stash	HIDDENTREASURE
Plumbing tubes	PIPES
Poems of praise	ODES
Polishes, as shoes	SHINES
Prefix meaning ''against''	ANTI
Professionals' charges	FEES
Pungent burger topping	ONION
Rant and __	RAVE
Remove pencil marks	ERASE
Ripped	TORE
Roll-call response	HERE
School semester	TERM
Scottish caps	TAMS
Scrooge's exclamation	BAH
Shade tree	ELM
Sing in the Alps	YODEL
Small songbird	WREN
Spuds	TATERS
Stand up	RISE
States of mind	ATTITUDES
Take a risk	DARE
Thrifty person	SAVER
Wear away	ERODE
Wickedness	EVIL
Winter or summer	SEASON
__ vera (skin-cream ingredient)	ALOE