Newsday.com - October 15 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Oct 15 2017 

Clues	Answers
''Have __ a deal for you!''	IGOT
''Jingle Bells'' preposition	OER
''Mutiny on the __'' (Looney Tunes cartoon)	BUNNY
''Personal'' top performances	BESTS
''Please __ valentine''	BEMY
''Rocky'' breakfast	RAWEGGS
2006 pro tennis retiree	AGASSI
All Cub Scouts	SONS
Anatomical pouches	SACS
Antique shop buy	CURIO
Assured	INTHEBAG
Atoll spots	ISLETS
Aural comeback	ECHO
Aural tribute	TOAST
Back talk	SASS
Barnyard mom	SOW
BAYOU STATE	SHREVEPORT
Be deserving of	EARN
Bedsheet descriptor	FITTED
Bic competitor	PENTEL
BUCKEYE STATE	ZANESVILLE
BYU group	LDS
Canvas quarters	TENT
Clear Eyes competitor	VISINE
Cool sports venues	ICERINKS
Copter spinners	ROTORS
Cosmetics category	SKINCARE
COTTON STATE	TUSCALOOSA
Dallas hoopster	MAV
Defendant's inaction	NOPLEA
Driver who didn't buy	LESSEE
E-commerce craft store	ETSY
Elixir	TONIC
Elton John musical score	AIDA
Emerson piece	ESSAY
EMPIRE STATE	KINGSTON
Ending for billion	AIRE
Ending like -kin	ETTE
ER imperative	STAT
Fabric measure	YARD
Field of study	AREA
Fifth word of the Koran	ALLAH
Filming place	SET
Flying fish eaters	OSPREYS
Flying off the shelf	HOT
Fury	WRATH
Garden implement	HOE
Genesis 3 guy	ADAM
Georgetown athlete	HOYA
German cameras	LEICAS
Go with the flow	ADAPT
Goddess of peace	IRENE
GOLDEN STATE	VALLEJO
Goofs off	IDLES
GPS reading	SSE
Great buy	STEAL
Great buys	DEALS
HBO alternative	SHO
High-energy TV scientist	NYE
Hoping for victory #1	WINLESS
Informed	SAIDTO
Injure severely	MAIM
iPhone assistant	SIRI
Italian alp	MONTE
Jamaican music	REGGAE
Judo move	THROW
KEYSTONE STATE	LANCASTER
Knightley in the movies	KEIRA
Lavished compliments on	PRAISED
Less specific	VAGUER
Less turbulent	CALMER
Like some retired Thoroughbreds	ATSTUD
Longtime Vermont Senator	LEAHY

 

Clues	Answers
MAGNOLIA STATE	NATCHEZ
Make fizzy	AERATE
Mardi Gras follower	LENT
Math class	TRIG
Math class abbr	QED
Metaphor for hope	RAYS
MOUNTAIN STATE	WHEELING
Name-list shortener	ETAL
NBA great __ Thomas	ISIAH
Norm, for short	STD
Not in doubt	SURE
Not too close together	SPACED
Not-to-be-missed attraction	MUSTSEE
Notable achievement	DEED
Overly	TOO
Overly extended	LENGTHY
PALMETTO STATE	CHARLESTON
Permissible	ALLOWED
Photo __ (media events)	OPS
Pie portion	SLICE
Pigeon sound	COO
Poet Pound	EZRA
Potter's oven	KILN
Prefix for physical	GEO
Put to work	USE
Raucous brawl	MELEE
Reaction to ragweed	ACHOO
Rip apart	REND
Sales goal	QUOTA
Scene	SITE
School near Windsor Castle	ETON
Sharp flavors	TANGS
Shoebox data	SIZES
Shows initiative	ACTS
Sicilian spewer	ETNA
Sister of Venus	SERENA
Skiing race, for short	SUPERG
Slacken	EASE
Smidge	TAD
Snakelike lizard	SKINK
Soaked	WET
Some MIT bestowals	PHDS
Sorority letter	ETA
Speckled steed	ROAN
Spice holder	RACK
Sporty car roof	TTOP
Spot for soaking	BATH
Square-mile fraction	ACRE
Stravinsky of notes	IGOR
Takes a crack at	ATTEMPTS
Tampered with, as checks	KITED
Tattles about	TELLSON
Thomas Hardy heroine	TESS
Thunderous	AROAR
Tightly packed	DENSE
Toe the line	OBEY
Took charge	LED
Two-sharp key: Abbr	DMAJ
VCR descendant	TIVO
Village tower	STEEPLE
VOLUNTEER STATE	KNOXVILLE
Wetlands tree	ALDER
Whodunit stories	ALIBIS
Wilson preceder	TAFT
Windmill blade	VANE
Word of regret	ALAS
Worked as	BEEN
Writer using incongruity	IRONIST
Zigged or zagged	VEERED
__ it (skip out)	LAM
__ off the old block	ACHIP
__-cone	SNO
__-Mex	TEX