News Day Crossword Answers September 2 2017

Clue	Solution
Subject of a meter reading	POEM
Big hit	SWAT
German mathematical giant	GAUSS
Debacle follower	AFTERMATH
First steps	ONSET
Pint-sized pianist of the papers	SCHROEDER
Pay (for)	ATONE
Percussion partner of Prince	SHEILAE
Circle, to geometricians	ELLIPSE
Surname meaning ”doorkeeper”	PORTER
”The wise man knows himself to __ fool”: Shak.	BEA
Break down	WEEP
Dramatic deliveries	LINES
Show solidarity	JOINHANDS
Closed (out)	ACED
Put through a certain cycle	LAUNDER
Before all is done	YET
Longfellow alma mater	BOWDOIN
Stock __	CAR
Copies before photocopies	CARBONS
Shrew cousin	MOLE
Williams play collection	MENAGERIE
Some Texas topography	MESAS
”The Cookie Never Crumbles” autobiographer	AMOS
Word on the European flag-carrier list	AER
Form a fork	BISECT
Bread spread since 1965	NUTELLA
Percussion in Gershwin’s ”Cuban Overture”	MARACAS
Fabric favored at Colonial Williamsburg	TOILE
Gift shop near Universal’s Simpsons Ride	KWIKEMART
Try for	AIMAT
Begins bit-by-bit	EASESINTO
Loads and loads	SLEWS
Frat letters	RHOS
__ aside	STEP
It might be a bomb	PASSPLAY
Most wanted	OFCHOICE
Networking technology	ETHERNET
Got justifiably	MERITED
Slathered portion	SMEAR
Slog (through)	WADE
Finished off	ATE
Trinity concept	THREEINONE
Finish line	GOAL
Dove descriptor	ANTIWAR
Title that eluded Sam Snead	USOPEN
Picked up somehow	SENSED
Thoroughly absorbs	STEEPS
Billing details	ROLES
”Animal House” director	LANDIS
Victorian-era sitting room	BOUDOIR
”Worcestershire” or ”onomatopoeia”	JAWBREAKER
Particular partridge	HEN
Owner of The Body Shop	LOREAL
Specialty, so to speak	BAG
Scientific calculator function	COSECANT
How some take courses	ALACARTE
Commodore Perry, on the Ohio Turnpike	RESTSTOP
Precedential reference	CASELAW
”Chers collègues . . .”	MESAMIS
Big eaters of plankton	MANTAS
Exotic bug-bite treatment	EMUOIL
”I’m besieged right now”	NOTIME
Entangles in a predicament	MIRES
Is far from freezing	BAKES
Agreement to participate	LETS
Ramen ingredient	MISO
”I Love Lucy” lament	WAH