News Day Crossword Puzzle Answers December 22 2017

Clue	Solution
"Dock of the Bay" singer	OTISREDDING
"I knew it!"	YES
"Lord of the Flies" author	WILLIAMGOLDING
"Mother of Presidents"	OHIO
"Pied Piper" poet	ROBERTBROWNING
1 Across big name	ELGRECO
All things considered	ATTHAT
Beltway Series team	NATS
Brainy bloc	MENSA
Brunch serving	CREPE
Center of feelings	EGO
Certain sisterhood members	NUNS
Clancy hero	RYAN
Colgate competitor	ORALB
Cool-headedness	POISE
Corroded	ATE
Cry of concern	OHMY
Dance club VIPs	MCS
Diminutive dog	PEKE
Dog show no-show	MONGREL
Early #1 song for Elvis	HOUNDDOG
Emotional tone	MOOD
Emozione romantica	AMORE
Every bit	ALL
Excessively glib	PAT
Export from Bolivian mines	TINORE
Fabric amts.	YDS
Folks	ONES
Frame for china plates	EASEL
Funnel-shaped flower	AZALEA
Future groom	FIANCE
Gandhi garments	DHOTIS
Hawkish	PROWAR
Home to much Spanish art	PRADO
Hoop group	NBAERS
Hopeless cases	GONERS
Implicate	NAME
In knots	TENSE
Industrialists	BARONS
Lacking in excitement	DRY
Ladderlike	SCALAR
Later on	AFTER
Major arcade producer	SEGA
Masters	ACES
Means to ends	TOOLS
More cold and damp	CLAMMIER
Nightclub of the past	DISCO
Nonclerical	LAIC
Novelist Rita __ Brown	MAE
Old-film cable channel	TCM
Old-school cheer	RAH
Originate (from)	STEM
Peacekeeping grp.	NATO
Person watching	ONLOOKER
Poe's autograph, e.g.	RARITY
Prefix for directional	OMNI
Resounded	RANG
Roman orator	CICERO
Screens before LCDs	CRTS
Shadow remover	RAZOR
Slip into	DON
Sphere of influence	ORBIT
Spicy taste	BITE
String chaser	CAT
Taiwan-born director	ANGLEE
Toil, so to speak	SWEAT
Tolstoy heroine	ANNA
Top-shelf	BEST
Tot's tote	DOLL
Traditionally messy place	DORMROOM
Unenviable mark	DEE
Westinghouse rival	EDISON
What the FDIC insures	ACCTS
Wrongful act	TORT