Newsday.com - January 3 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 3 2018 

Clues	Answers
''Praying'' insect	MANTIS
Bar bill	TAB
Battery terminal	ANODE
Batting game for tots	TBALL
Battleship letters	USS
Become	TURNINTO
Box office success	HIT
Clumsy person	OAF
Color of rare steak	RED
Commotion	ADO
Community pool site	YMCA
Cowpoke's ride	HOSS
Cryptographic writing	CODE
Dad's boy	SON
Delete	REMOVE
Ecuador neighbor	PERU
Edge of a cup	RIM
Eight, on a sundial	VIII
Electrical outlet insert	PLUG
Emphatic agreement	OHYES
Entertainer Minnelli	LIZA
Entices	LURES
Envelope fastener	CLASP
Extreme happiness	ECSTASY
Faux __ (minor mistake)	PAS
Fence entryway	GATE
Google competitor	YAHOO
Have an evening meal	SUP
Help with the dishes	WIPE
Helpful hints	CLUES
Helps with the dishes	DRIES
Hunter constellation	ORION
Inventor Howe	ELIAS
It's east of Indiana	OHIO
Job openings	SLOTS
Jump __ (begin enthusiastically)	INWITHBOTHFEET
Jump __ (decide hastily)	TOCONCLUSIONS
Jump __ (follow a popular cause)	ONTHEBANDWAGON
L.A. campus	USC
Lake birds	LOONS
Language suffix	ESE
Large bodies of water	SEAS
Long, long __	AGO
Loosen, as laces	UNTIE
Move unsteadily	TEETER
Mystical glow	AURA
Orator's delivery	SPEECH
Pairs of singers	DUOS
Pants pleat, for example	CREASE
Parts of a stairway	STEPS
Pepsi rival	COKE
Perfectly	TOAT
Place of rapid growth	HOTBED
Pointed properly	ORIENTED
Prefix for dynamic	AERO
Run __ of (clash with)	AFOUL
Santa's assistant	ELF
Slice of history	ERA
Spaniard or Swede	EUROPEAN
Stages, as a historical battle	REENACTS
Stain on an artist's smock	SPLOTCH
Swelled head	EGO
Take a chair	SIT
That woman	SHE
Toy tooter	KAZOO
Tuna container	CAN
Typical Saudi	ARAB
Under the weather	ILL
Used to be	WAS
Uses a coffee mill	GRINDS
Very funny person	RIOT
With a roof, as stadiums	DOMED
Word on a penny	ONE
Work wk. start	MON
Wryly amusing	IRONIC
__ halt to (end)	CALLA