News Day Crossword Puzzle Answers December 2 2017

Clue	Solution
All fired up	LIT
All-time highest-ranking woman in Presidential succession	PELOSI
Attack inciter	SICEM
Author best known for her journals	NIN
Bayonet accessory	SCABBARD
Be sorry	REPENT
Big name in green slices	VLASIC
Boast the faculty of	POSSESS
Boyardee's "bowl of classic comfort"	BEEFARONI
Breyers and Oreos, e.g.	COBRANDS
British composer of German descent	HOLST
Bryan's "matter of choice," not "chance"	DESTINY
Capacity	ROLE
Carnival cruise stop since 2016	CUBA
Choctaw, for one	NATION
Clark's New Year's Eve successor	SEACREST
Clear for keeping	NET
Come to an end	PASS
Construction paper	BLUEPRINT
Crisis condition	REDALERT
Deciding on pitches	ATBAT
Depot data	ETAS
Dogmatic stance	TENET
Employee file stat	STARTDATE
Enduringly mischievous, as some guys	BOYISH
Eradicated	RID
Flier to fens	EGRET
Follow Nemo, perhaps	SUBMERGE
Freedom of movement?	LIB
Going on and on	YAMMERING
Great respect	ESTEEM
Grille cover	BRA
Imaginary strings	AIRGUITAR
Instrument Bach wrote for	VIOL
It means "surrounding"	PERI
Its valley has 300 châteaux	LOIRE
Jeans category	REWASH
Large bill	CNOTE
LEGO City Passenger __	PLANE
Like "la," to 56 Down: Abbr.	FEM
Masters stroke	PUTT
Merit badge craft	BASKETRY
Middling bond rating	BAA
Much more than miffed	BERSERK
Newton's second law, essentially	EQUATION
Not as extended	SHORTER
Oater heroine	GAL
On target	APT
One rescued by Rambo	INTERNEE
Patria di Pavarotti	ITALIA
Pineapple portion	SPEAR
Poorly maintained	SHABBY
Predecessor of George I	ANNE
Rankles	EATSAT
Seat with a book rack	PEW
Something fixed by astronomers	GAZE
Something rolled for breakfast	OAT
Soprano	TREBLE
Stick with to the end	SEEOUT
Sundance sister channel	AMC
Telescopic discovery of 1781	URANUS
Three Tenors genre	POPERA
Tiring tasks	SLOGS
Unreliable gossip	LIAR
Unwritten constitution	PHYSIQUE
Voucher opponents	PTAS
Warning from Trebek	PHRASING
Went nowhere	SAT
What Brits call "presenter"	HOST
Wins easily	BREEZESIN
Word related to "measure"	METES
Worth more, often	RARER