Newsday.com - September 4 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - September 4 2016

Clues	Answers
''Casablanca'' man	SAM
''Casablanca'' woman	ILSA
17th state	OHIO
89 Down's tribute	ODE
Alcott sequel	LITTLEMEN
All the rage	HOT
Animal parks	ZOOS
Arm, in Arles	BRAS
Baloney	BUNK
Bartender's mixer	SODA
Basic arithmetic	SUMS
Beach buckets	PAILS
Become slush	MELT
Best Picture Oscar nominee for 2014	SELMA
Blog entry	POST
Bok __ (Chinese cabbage)	CHOY
Borrowings	LOANS
Butcher's special orders	CUSTOMCUTS
Certain Ivy Leaguer	ELI
Certain seaboard setting	EASTCOAST
City on the Arkansas	TULSA
Clams or dough	MOOLAH
Close associates	PALS
Club member's cost	DUES
Commuter communities	EXURBS
Contrary	PERVERSE
Cook-off creation	CHILI
Couplet creator	POET
Course of study	CURRICULUM
Creative expression	STYLE
Deceive	CON
Destroy	WRECK
Developer's measure	ACRE
Diminutive dogs	PEKES
Dot on a globe	ISLE
Double-dealing	HOCUSPOCUS
Earl's equivalent	COUNT
Electronics giant	SONY
Ending for percent	ILE
Exams for future MDs	MCATS
Fancy feathers	PLUMES
Fillmore's party	WHIG
Fled	RANAWAY
Flees	DECAMPS
Former Mississippi senator	LOTT
French painter of dancers	MATISSE
French painter of dancers	DEGAS
Fully	ALL
Garden mixes	SOILS
Genetic double	CLONE
Gregor Mendel's day job	MONK
Gym array	BARBELLS
Handles roughly	MAULS
Hard smacks	SWATS
He was a ''House'' doctor	OMAREPPS
How much 90 Down is sold	INCANS
How soy sauce tastes	SALTY
Iconic star from Stockholm	GARBO
It flows from the Alps	RHINE
It might say ''Kiss the chef''	APRON
Japanese national sport	SUMO
Juan's water	AGUA
Karaoke number	SONG
Kept entertained	AMUSED
Lasting mark	SCAR
Legal profession	THEBAR
Little Havana fare	CUBANCUISINE
Look after	TEND
Lowest-acceptable	MINIMUM
Messy ones	SLOBS
Mexican beer brand	TECATE
Military station	BASE

 

Clues	Answers
Minor wrangle	SPAT
Morsels	BITS
Muse of history	CLIO
Nonsensical	ABSURD
Noriega of Panama	MANUEL
Not very good	SOSO
Once more	AGAIN
Organize, as an attack	MOUNT
Plays on words	PUNS
Poker buy-in	ANTE
Police protection	VESTS
Pompeii, today	RUINS
Pop singer Demi	LOVATO
Pope when the Bastille was stormed	PIUSVI
Port Sudan's water	REDSEA
Possible legal-brief source	AMICUSCURIAE
Potential for loss	RISK
Pre-campaign promos	TEASERADS
Price-to-earnings, e.g	RATIO
Public persona	FACE
Purple hue	LILAC
Put into practice	USE
Puzo novel	OMERTA
Recite rapidly, with ''off''	REEL
Renée's refusal	NON
Replenish one's stock	BACKORDER
Rights org	ACLU
Rival of 17 Down	TULANE
Rounds of wrestling	FALLS
Rush	STEPONIT
Saab rival	VOLVO
Sam-I-Am's creator	SEUSS
Sandwich staple	TUNA
Saudi Arabia neighbor	OMAN
Scent	ODOR
SEC school	LSU
Second-largest Scandinavian city	OSLO
Sector	ZONE
Sell at any price	DUMP
Shaved-ice treats	SNOCONES
Showbiz stinkers	TURKEYS
Shutting up	STILLING
Skyline haze	SMOG
Small jazz group	TRIO
Smooth, as a plank	SAND
Speaking platform	DAIS
Sportscast feature	SLOMO
Stallone character	RAMBO
Stallone character	ROCKY
State strongly	ASSERT
Step down	QUIT
Supreme Court attire	ROBES
Swindler	CROOK
Symbol of purity	HALO
Thoroughly	QUITE
Throw a tantrum	ERUPT
To-the-letter	EXACT
Trenches in 42 Down	MOATS
Troop group	CORPS
Uber alternative	CAB
Ultimate cause	ROOT
Unpartnered	LONE
Upward movements	ASCENTS
USN rank	ENS
Very little	TEENY
Very nicely	TOATEE
Vivid type of crayon	NEON
What ''endless'' ends with	ESSES
What flan is served in	CUSTARDCUP
What roving pitmasters travel	BARBECUECIRCUIT
Winter Olympics venue	RINK
Young miss	LASS