Newsday.com - October 8 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Oct 8 2017 

Clues	Answers
''Do it for my sake''	HUMORME
''GoodFellas'' Oscar winner	JOEPESCI
''Home Cooking'' chef	DEEN
''I beg to differ''	NOTSO
''La Bohème'' role	MIMI
''Sleepless in Seattle'' director	NORAEPHRON
''The Time Machine'' race	ELOI
31 Across in 2000	GORE
4 Down phrase	IDO
Action figures, essentially	DOLLS
Agent, for short	REP
Atmospheric emanation	ODOR
Basic food	STAPLE
Big attraction	DRAWINGCARD
Boxing legend	ALI
Brainy society	MENSA
Camry competitor	ALTIMA
Canine care deg	DDS
Cantina food	TAPAS
Change position	MOVE
Choir's clothing	ROBES
Choir's repertoire	SONGS
Circuit measures	AMPS
City noted for oranges	VALENCIA
Congestion sites	SINUSES
Congestion sound	HONKING
Constant critic	NAGGER
Continental prefix	AFRO
Cookie baker's buy	SHEET
Court figs	ATTYS
Cuban base, familiarly	GITMO
Cybermoney	ECASH
Cynical comeback	IBET
Demolishes	RAZES
Displease	MIFF
Do yard work	MOW
Doc bloc	AMA
Dorm accessories	LAMPS
Dramatic opening	ACTI
Duchess of York	SARAH
ER VIPs	RNS
Errand runner	GOFER
Far from convinced	LEERY
Far from crisp	LIMP
Fire starter	FLINT
First stage, so to speak	GETGO
Floral necklace	LEI
Foldable furniture	COTS
Fred's cartoon wife	WILMA
Function host	EMCEE
Gambia neighbor	SENEGAL
Generic neighbors	JONESES
German	TEUTON
Get set in a sedan	BELTUP
Ghana neighbor	TOGO
Giraffe cousin	OKAPI
Goat-man of myth	FAUN
Hobby kits with colonies	ANTFARMS
Honda alternatives	MAZDAS
Horror film series addr	ELMST
HS auxiliaries	PTAS
HS exam	PSAT
In recent days	NEWLY
Innately	BORN
It borders Berlin	POTSDAM
Ivy Leaguer	ELI
Jumps around	SKITTERS
Justice Kagan	ELENA
Kingly name of Spain	ALFONSO
Knee or knuckle	JOINT
Lab rodent	RAT

 

Clues	Answers
Lab rodent	MOUSE
Leans back	RECLINES
Long-running disputes	FEUDS
Loses no games	SWEEPS
Lounge around	LOLL
Lyrics, essentially	POEMS
Make more efficient	REENGINEER
Mechanical helper	ROBOT
Melody of India	RAGA
Mideast capital	AMMAN
Moved it	SPED
Mozart-era dance	MINUET
Name on a slate	NOMINEE
Narrow boat	CANOE
New blogger's selection, perhaps	EMAILNAME
Noncom's nickname	SARGE
Norwegian playwright	IBSEN
Official order	EDICT
On its way	SENT
Optimal	IDEAL
Orioles' grp	ALEAST
Part of a Dracula costume	FANGS
Part of PBJ	JELLY
PBS science series	NOVA
Philosopher Kierkegaard	SOREN
Piercing tools	AWLS
Police story genre	NOIRFICTION
Ponce __	DELEON
Pond swimmer	SWAN
Pro bono TV ad	PSA
Pulitzer musical for 2016	HAMILTON
Put back in a corral	REPEN
Rather alike	SIMILAR
Red Muppet	ELMO
Rise rapidly	SOAR
Rite with rings	MARRIAGE
Roof ornament	VANE
Rowing implement	OAR
Satirical piece	SPOOF
Schoolyard comeback	CANSO
Sculpted figure	TORSO
Send forth	EMIT
Shape of a puck	DISK
Shot in the dark	STAB
Small bills	ONES
Soak up knowledge	LEARN
Soccer stadium chant	OLEOLE
Sofa support	ARM
Some string players	CELLISTS
Sparkly topper	TIARA
Spot of land	ISLE
Substantive	MEATY
Sudden increase	LEAP
Sure to work	FOOLPROOF
Symbolic hugs	OOO
Tablet accessory	STYLUS
Take the crown	WIN
Taste buds' place	TONGUE
Threefold	TREBLE
Trojan War instigator	ARES
Urban know-how	STREETSMARTS
User of Celsius	METRICSYSTEM
Usher's post	AISLE
Very, in music	MOLTO
Was a sub	STOODIN
Was trying to say	MEANT
Weigh (down)	LOAD
Well versed	ADEPT
Went public with	AIRED
With intensity	HOTLY
Witherspoon of film	REESE