Newsday.com - February 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Feb 19 2018 

Clues	Answers
''Now it's clear''	ISEE
''__ the land of the free . . .''	OER
A Great Lake	ERIE
Ace of hearts, for example	CARD
Actor Alda	ALAN
Airport takeoff postings: Abbr	ETDS
And others: Abbr	ETAL
Army outpost with tents	CAMP
Auction off, say	SELL
Audacity	NERVE
Back of the neck	NAPE
Bagel, for one	ROLL
Bio. or chem	SCI
Black-and-white cookie	OREO
British nobleman	LORD
Cash register	TILL
Casual cotton top	TSHIRT
Centers of hurricanes	EYES
Chose, with ''for''	OPTED
Come __ (mature)	OFAGE
Complete collections	SETS
Concludes	ENDS
Connect, as a seat belt	FASTEN
Creative thought	IDEA
Dalmatian's markings	SPOTS
Decorate again	REDO
Dined at home	ATEIN
Disclose	TELL
Extremely scared	PETRIFIED
Family rooms	DENS
Feeling blue	GLUM
Genealogy diagram	TREE
Grand-scale story	EPIC
High school jr.'s exam	PSAT
Historical periods	ERAS
Informal dining spot	CAFE
Jim who created the Muppets	HENSON
Just slightly	ABIT
Kansas or California	STATE
Legendary flag maker Ross	BETSY
Limb of a bird	WING
Mexican's ''So long!''	ADIOS
Mimicking	APING
Old-fashioned ''Awesome!''	NEATO
Out with one's sweetheart	ONADATE
Paper-clip alternative	STAPLE
President John Quincy __	ADAMS
Prohibited thing	TABOO
Protests on paper with signatures	PETITIONS
Reach, as a destination	GETTO
Seat at a pub	STOOL
Show with skits and songs	REVUE
Slow-moving animal in a shell	SNAIL
Smart-alecky	PERT
Snake charmer's snake	COBRA
Speck of land in the sea	ISLET
Spelling competition	BEE
Square-dance lass	GAL
Study of the environment	ECOLOGY
Surly nature	PETULANCE
Suspect's story	ALIBI
Sword fights	DUELS
Tempt	ENTICE
The majority	MOST
Thin strands of clouds	WISPS
Thomas __ Edison	ALVA
Throw gently	TOSS
Under the weather	ILL
Vehicles in hangars	PLANES
Venetian-blind strip	SLAT
Vicinity	AREA
Wickedness	EVIL
Wild guess	STAB
Woman's old-fashioned underskirt	PETTICOAT
Women's links org	LPGA
Young boy	LAD
__ goat (male barnyard beast)	BILLY
__ vera (skin soother)	ALOE