Newsday.com - October 2 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - October 2 2016

Clues	Answers
''Beauty and the Beast'' girl	BELLE
''Funny Girl'' composer	STYNE
''Goodness!''	OHMY
''Have some!''	TASTEIT
''In what way?''	HOWSO
''Not so!'' reply	ISTOO
''Steady as __ goes''	SHE
'50s Fords	EDSELS
Actor Nick	NOLTE
Aficionado	FAN
Airport shuttle	VAN
Antioxidant berry	ACAI
Avid aficionados	ROOTERS
Baroque instrument	VIOL
Base-clearing hits	HOMERS
Battery pole	ANODE
Be under the weather	AIL
Bookcase fastener	SCREW
Bradbury of sci-fi	RAY
Brake sound	SCREECH
Bridle attachment	REIN
Bring under control	TAME
British nobleman	BARON
Brute	SAVAGE
Can't do without	NEEDS
Cantina fare	TACO
Caravan stop	OASIS
Carnival confection	COTTONCANDY
Carrier to Tel Aviv	ELAL
Champagne holder	GLASS
Collar insert	STAY
Colorful tabby	CALICOCAT
Comics Viking	HAGAR
Currently popular baby girl name	AVA
Daydreamer	WOOLGATHERER
Direct (to)	REFER
Duke Ellington tune	SATINDOLL
Easel, for example	STAND
Economist Smith	ADAM
Empty space	GAP
Entertains lavishly	REGALES
Etching compound	ACID
Eternal	AGELESS
Fabricated statement	LIE
Festoon	ADORN
Fill with love	ENAMOR
Fixture in some basements	OILTANK
Flat-topped hill	MESA
Flat-topped hill	BUTTE
Flour producer	MILL
Flout the rules	CHEAT
Flows forth	EMANATES
Frigidaire rival	AMANA
From Havana	CUBAN
Frond-bearing plant	FERN
Fruit skins	PEELS
Gaggle sounds	HONKS
Gentle-but-firm persuasion	VELVETGLOVE
Gets ready	PREPS
Go places	TRAVEL
Gunk	GLOP
Hard to come by	RARE
Hardwood tree	ALDER
Hunter's garb, for short	CAMO
In this way	THUS
Informal refusal	NAH
Intertwine	MESHTOGETHER
Invitation abbreviation	RSVP
Jam-packed	DENSE
Leaf blower brand	TORO
Least distant	CLOSEST
Lose energy	FLAG
Make amends (for)	ATONE

 

Clues	Answers
Make revisions to	EDIT
Marine, slangily	LEATHERNECK
Media mogul Turner	TED
Money-managing exec	CFO
More adorable	CUTER
Morn's opposite	EEN
Most flexible	LOOSEST
Mrs. Smith's competitor	SARALEE
Music genre	ROCK
Name derived from Dolores	LOLA
NASCAR sponsor	STP
Natural drier	AIR
No longer happening	OVER
Nullifies	NEGATES
Once more	AGAIN
Opulent residence	ESTATE
Paid players	PROS
Part of a flight	STAIR
Plant in Road Runner cartoons	CACTUS
Poetic preposition	ERE
Pokes fun at	MOCKS
Poor treatment	ABUSE
Pop singer Tori	AMOS
Pop's pop	GRAMPS
Pothook shape	ESS
Prayer wrap-up	AMEN
Prefix meaning ''recent''	NEO
Proclaim	AVOW
Put a stop to	END
Quick message	NOTE
Raptor's grabber	TALON
Road branches	FORKS
Rooster or stallion	MALE
Ruses	PLOYS
Safari sighting	RHINO
Scoff at	DERIDE
Send payment	REMIT
Sentence segment	PHRASE
Shortly, to Shelley	ANON
Shows compassion for	PITIES
Six-pt. plays	TDS
Skateboarding stunt	OLLIE
Slangy suffix	OLA
Small memento	TOKEN
Smokestack buildup	SOOT
Snowman accessory	SCARF
Spanish gold	ORO
Speed demons	RACERS
Star-shaped flower	ASTER
Strong point	FORTE
Support bars	RAILS
Take to task	SCOLD
Team leader	COACH
This, in Tijuana	ESTA
Tibia's place	SHIN
Timeline slice	ERA
Toon mermaid	ARIEL
Touch base via phone	CALLIN
Tremendously	ALOT
Trim, as bushes	PRUNE
U.S.-Canada defense system	NORAD
Ultimatum ender	ELSE
Unburdened	RELIEVED
Very light dessert	CHIFFONCAKE
Vietnamese holiday	TET
Vitality	LIFE
Waters down	THINS
Wistful word	ALAS
Word on Irish stamps	EIRE
Worries	FRETS
WWII subs	UBOATS
Yoga accessory	MAT
__ for (chooses)	OPTS