Newsday.com - December 31 2017 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Dec 31 2017 Sunday

Clues	Answers
''As You Like It'' forest	ARDEN
''Big Brother'' broadcaster	CBS
''Common Sense'' pamphleteer	THOMASPAINE
''Just as I thought!''	AHA
''NFL Live'' channel	ESPN
''To a . . .'' work	ODE
''Vogue'' rival	ELLE
Actor Neeson	LIAM
Alternate title for the puzzle	HIDDENLANDS
Alternative to texting	EMAIL
Asian priests	LAMAS
Ava who directed ''Selma''	DUVERNAY
Ballroom dance move	DIP
Blue-haired Simpson	MARGE
Board a ship	EMBARK
BOGO event	SALE
Boot sole material	CREPERUBBER
Break quickly	SNAP
Brown shades	TANS
Built for speed	SLEEK
Bus-stop structure	SHELTER
Cabinet department	LABOR
Captain Sparrow portrayer	DEPP
Chap	MAN
Combat supplies	FIREARMS
Cry from a crib	MAMA
Cuba __ (cocktail)	LIBRE
Dagwood's young neighbor	ELMO
Diarist Nin	ANAIS
Diva's rendition	ARIA
Drummer's cymbal pair	HIHAT
Dry, as vermouth	SEC
Ebenezer's creator	CHARLES
Eerie	SPECTRAL
Elvis record label	RCA
EMTs' destinations	ERS
Fairway position	LIE
Fanatical	MANIC
Fell in pellets	SLEETED
Fine silver	STERLING
Fireplace adjunct	SCREEN
Florence's river	ARNO
Fourth one counted, perhaps	MOE
Freighter listing	CARGOMANIFEST
Friend in the 'hood	HOMIE
Fringe group	CULT
Full of guile	SLY
Gather bit by bit	GLEAN
Genesis shepherd	ABEL
GI-entertaining org	USO
Go-betweens	LIAISONS
Good bud	PAL
Gull cousins	TERNS
Hasty escape	LAM
Helpful connections	INS
Hoist	RAISE
Hollered	CRIED
Horse hue	ROAN
HP's PC competitor	DELL
Ice house	IGLOO
Island group	CHAIN
Italian cheese city	PARMA
Italian wine city	ASTI
Jellied garnish	ASPIC
Keystone State port	ERIE
Knight's mount	STEED
Language suffix	ESE
Leave quickly, so to speak	BAIL
Likewise not	NOR
Lock of hair	TRESS
Make known	AIR
Minnesota's iron source	MESABIRANGE
More sensible	SANER
Navigation device	SONAR
Nest eggs, briefly	IRAS
News story	ITEM
Number-aligning mark	DECIMALTAB
Old West train robbers	DALTONGANG
Ole Miss rival	BAMA
Only president from Mo	HST
Overfills	SATES
Overfills	GLUTS
Overly sentimental	SAPPY
Peculiar	ODD
Pedometer reset reading	OOO
Physicians' org	AMA
Portraitist's prop	EASEL
Prime-time hour	EIGHT
Puccini genre	OPERA
Raptor's gripper	TALON
Ration (out)	DOLE
Red Monopoly piece	HOTEL
RNC's group	GOP
Roofing piece	TILE
S&L amenity	ATM
Sci-fi visitor	ALIEN
Seeks info	ASKS
Seer's deck	TAROT
Shaved-ice treats	SNOCONES
Shoulder muscle	DELTOID
Show the ropes to	TEACH
Shut tightly	SEAL
Singer Del Rey	LANA
Slice of history	ERA
Small bills	ONES
Small fry	TYKES
Smells strongly	REEKS
Smoothing tool	FILE
Sneezin' reason, perhaps	POLLEN
Sock part	TOE
Soprano-range	TREBLE
Sticky stuff	GOO
Stopped from squeaking	OILED
Street vendor's vehicle	PUSHCART
Structure with a keystone	ARCH
Stun gun	TASER
Takes off the shelf	USES
Takes, as advice	HEEDS
Tangible	REAL
Taters	SPUDS
Thermometer gradation	DEGREECELSIUS
Thomas Hardy heroine	TESS
Threesome	TRIO
Thus	ERGO
Tissue layer	PLY
Tossed fare	SALAD
Transitional state	LIMBO
Turf Builder seller	SCOTTS
Two-purpose	DUAL
Ukraine's capital	KIEV
Unbooked slot	OPENDATE
Undercover worker	SPY
Unhappy looks	SNEERS
Unkempt one	SLOB
Untrustworthy one	LIAR
Up to __ (adequate)	PAR
Upturned, as a crate	ONEND
Van Gogh hangout	ARLES
Vivacity	LIFE
Volcano near Palermo	ETNA
Walesa's homeland	POLAND
Warehouse	DEPOT
Warty creatures	TOADS
Web user	SPIDER
__ diem worker	PER
__-proof (easy to operate)	IDIOT