Newsday.com - January 24 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 24 2018 

Clues	Answers
''. . . but you know how __''	ITIS
''A __ technicality!''	MERE
''Beetle Bailey'' dog	OTTO
''Honest'' prez	ABE
Altar vow	IDO
Assembly line product	AUTO
At a great distance	FAR
Back in the old days	THEN
Banisters	RAILS
Barbecue residue	ASHES
Barely sufficient	SCANT
Best-selling 1920s 34 Across	FORDMODELT
Biblical paradise	EDEN
Border on	ABUT
Boxing official	REF
Casino employees	DEALERS
Cause of goosebumps	FEAR
Central point	MIDST
Climbing plants	IVIES
Collector's goal	SET
Colosseum locale	ROME
Customary ways	HABITS
Dry as a desert	ARID
Dwell	RESIDE
Dwellings	ABODES
Espionage org	CIA
Filled (with)	LADEN
Finny swimmer with whiskers	CATFISH
Fragrance	ODOR
French cap	BERET
Fresh talk	SASS
Give the slip to	ELUDE
Grasp	HOLD
Greeting at a luau	ALOHA
Gridiron gadget	KICKINGTEE
Group in a coop	HENS
Hamilton's bills	TENS
Helps oneself to	TAKES
Home to honey handlers	HIVE
Homophone of the puzzle's theme	TEASE
In flames	AFIRE
Intrude, with ''in''	BUTT
Largest mammals	WHALES
Leave speechless	STUN
List-shortening abbr	ETC
Make off with	STEAL
Male deer	STAG
Moose cousin	ELK
Move like a bunny	HOP
Network junction point	NODE
Numerous	ALOTOF
Off-limits	TABOO
Participant in a sprint	RACER
Passports, for short	IDS
Pay (up)	ANTE
Personnel person	HIRER
Piano practice piece	ETUDE
Pieces of a tea service	SAUCERS
Poetry selections	VERSES
Pot holder with a thumb	MITTEN
Pre-weekend shout	TGIF
Proofreader's mark	DELE
Raw mineral	ORE
Red __ (Snoopy's pilot foe)	BARON
Satirical routine	SKIT
Skin-cream additive	ALOE
Slanted typeface: Abbr	ITAL
Small suitcase	VALISE
Sound of a comics punch	WHAM
State south of Seattle	OREGON
Stereo system	HIFI
Tennis great Arthur	ASHE
Traveled like Huck Finn	RAFTED
Uninteresting to a particular person	NOTONESCUPOFTEA
Wraps things up	ENDS
Y-shaped intersection	FORK
__ Baba	ALI
__ the line (obeyed)	TOED