Newsday.com - December 27 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Dec 27 2017

Clues	Answers
''Tall'' story	TALE
''__ to worry''	NOT
Acquire	GET
All-important	KEY
Annoyingly slow	POKY
Astronaut's insignia	NASA
Author Harriet Beecher __	STOWE
Blowtorch wielder	WELDER
Broad street	AVENUE
Burn slightly	CHAR
Central New York lake	ONEIDA
Command to Fido	SIT
Coral island	ATOLL
Earl of tea	GREY
Early afternoon	TWO
Early afternoon	ONE
Elevator pioneer	OTIS
Estrange	ALIENATE
Exist	ARE
Fencing weapon	EPEE
Group offered at auction	LOT
Hand over formally	CEDE
Homer's Trojan War epic	ILIAD
Hunter's weapon	SHOTGUN
Immense	HUGE
Indulges	HUMORS
Infant's ailment	COLIC
Infomercials, e.g	ADS
JFK successor	LBJ
Kennel club classification	BREED
Leather variety	SUEDE
Long-running NBC weekend show	SNL
Lowly chess pieces	PAWNS
Mai __ cocktail	TAI
Mother Teresa, for one	NUN
Oceanic movement	TIDE
On the road	AWAY
One's good name, for short	REP
Ordering for dinner	HAVING
Paradises	EDENS
Placates	APPEASES
Place for protons	ATOM
Plays a part	ACTS
Positive response	YES
Propelled with oars	ROWED
Pub beverages	ALES
Puppy sounds	YELPS
Regarding	ASTO
Reverend Jackson	JESSE
Salon application	DYE
Scold, with ''out''	CHEW
Scribble (down)	JOT
Seeks permission	ASKS
Socially smooth	SUAVE
Some baseball pitches	CURVES
Sore spot	ACHE
Spaghetti or ziti	PASTA
Speaks frankly	TELLSITLIKEITIS
Speaks frankly	LAYSITONTHELINE
Speaks frankly	TALKSTURKEY
Spiral shape	CURL
Spur, with ''on''	URGE
Squirrel's hangout	TREE
Straightens (up)	TIDIES
Sums to	TOTALS
Take exception to	RESENT
Topped, as an ''i''	DOTTED
Trite saying	CLICHE
Under the weather	ILL
Unlit	DARK
Very pale	ASHY
Website connection	LINK
When summer starts	JUNE
Wholesale quantities	CASES
Wild equine	ASS
Window coverings	DRAPES
__ Jones Industrial Average	DOW
__ Piper of Hamelin	PIED