Newsday.com - January 22 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - January 22 2017 

Clues	Answers
''Exodus'' author	URIS
''I want to know . . .''	TELLME
''I warned you!''	SEE
''Obviously!''	NODUH
''Telephone'' game of a sort	TAG
''The Python Years'' diarist	PALIN
2006 Court appointee	ALITO
Academic periods	TERMS
Al or Bobby of racing	UNSER
Alerts from PDs	APBS
Artichoke serving	HEART
Attack from all sides	BESET
Ave. crossers	STS
Bag-screening agcy	TSA
Ballet move	PLIE
Barely passing grade	DPLUS
Battery pole	ANODE
Be worthy of	RATE
Bearded beast	GNU
Belief system	CREED
Big talk	BOAST
Bit of heredity	GENE
Black, in verse	EBON
Boot part	TOE
Brassy	BOLD
Briefly worded	TERSE
Brigham Young University city	PROVO
Bull Run battlefield	MANASSAS
Calligrapher's tip	NIB
Car's custom ID	VANITYPLATE
Carpentry tools	PLANES
Certain Ivy Leaguer	ELI
Certain palm-tree fruit	ACAI
Cheater's references	CRIBSHEETS
Cheney successor	BIDEN
Clucked disapprovingly	TSKED
Committee leader	CHAIRPERSON
Compose, as prose	WRITE
Computer operators	USERS
Cops' org	PBA
Covers with concrete	PAVES
Cozy spot	NOOK
Cry of accomplishment	TADA
Dairy sounds	MOOS
Days __ (yore)	OFOLD
Deer relative	MOOSE
Demean	ABASE
Easy life	BEDOFROSES
Entertainer Bette	MIDLER
Escorted to one's office	HADUP
Espresso beverage	LATTE
Evert of tennis	CHRIS
Executive Department appointment	CABINETPOST
Fabric quantities	BOLTS
Felt sore	ACHED
Filled and then some	SATED
Fishing-line mishap	SNAG
Floppy-eared dogs	SPANIELS
Former ''Top Chef'' judge	EMERIL
Game with kings and queens	CHESS
Girl in the ''Little House'' series	LAURA
Gladden	ELATE
Go really fast	TEAR
GPS reading	ENE
Gravy holder	BOAT
Greedy person	TAKER
Gruff	HARSH
Had a hankering	YEARNED
Hardwood trees	ELMS
Helper	AIDE
High society	ELITE

 

Clues	Answers
Highway markers	CONES
Historical span	ERA
In unison	ASONE
Islam's Almighty	ALLAH
Italian wine region	ASTI
Jag alternative	VETTE
Keep hidden	SECLUDE
King of rhyme	COLE
Kissed quickly	PECKED
Large lake since the 1930s	MEAD
Laundry room bottle	SOFTENER
LAX predictions	ETAS
Leak slowly	SEEP
Ledger entry	DEBIT
Legendary trailblazer	BOONE
Lute-shaped fruit	PEAR
Milanese money	EUROS
Milk mishap	SPILL
Mine transports	TRAMCARS
Molecule part	ATOM
MS. enclosure	SASE
Munched on	ATE
Musk of Tesla Motors	ELON
Name on the cover of ''The Odd Couple''	NEIL
Nearsighted toon	MAGOO
New Testament king	HEROD
News executive	BUREAUCHIEF
Northeastern capital	ALBANY
Odd-numbered page	RECTO
Only just	BARELY
Operatic selection	ARIA
Paid promos	ADS
Paper purchase	REAM
Pectoral, e.g	CHESTMUSCLE
Pheasant female	PEAHEN
Place for a figurehead	BOW
Poet Pound	EZRA
Precedent setter	TESTCASE
Publicity ploy	STUNT
Quebec neighbor	MAINE
Reacts angrily to	SNARLSAT
Recipe amount	TABLESPOON
Red-ink figure	LOSS
Render inoperative	VOID
Salad green	CHARD
Scoundrel	KNAVE
Shrek's love	FIONA
Significant other	MATE
Singing group	CHOIR
Sleep symbols	ZEES
Speak from a lectern	ORATE
Spectrum revealer	PRISM
Spine-tingling	EERIE
Standards of excellence	BENCHMARKS
Suffix in cellular biology	PLASM
Summertime woe	HEATRASH
SUV ancestor	WAGON
Tampers with	RIGS
Thrifty, in brand names	ECONO
Tiresome talker	BORE
To be: Lat	ESSE
Turns to slush	MELTS
Underway, to Sherlock	AFOOT
Undue quickness	HASTE
Unspoken	TACIT
USPS deliveries	PKGS
USPS deliveries	LTRS
What encloses some cells	IRONBARS
Whodunit informer	STOOLPIGEON
Winslow Homer work	SEASCAPE
Worker's raise	WAGEHIKE