Newsday.com - February 2 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Feb 2 2018 

Clues	Answers
''Lords a-leaping'' count	TEN
48 Across' first UN ambassador	EBAN
A Comcast network	MSNBC
Allowed to use	LENT
Artist's implements	BRISTLEBRUSHES
Bellyacher	KVETCH
Big Apple icon	BROOKLYNBRIDGE
Biomedical research agcy	NIH
Botch	LOUSEUP
Bring on	INCUR
Capt. Kirk subordinate	MRSULU
Carl Sagan book	BROCASBRAIN
Certain Middle Easterner	OMANI
City northeast of Boston	BEVERLY
Clarify, perhaps	RESTATE
Cookout piece	SPARERIB
Director Anderson	WES
Disorganization metaphor	ZOO
Dormant	LATENT
Family guys	SONS
Folks, in current slang	PEEPS
Fully comfortable with	USEDTO
Grain holder	SILO
Hands-up time	NOON
Headphone descendants	EARBUDS
Heavenly sounding keyboard	CELESTA
Imitate accurately	MIRROR
Impel	SPUR
In place of	FOR
Island near Naples	CAPRI
It's currently three hours behind DC	PST
Jargon suffix	ESE
Jockey Smith who married Astaire	ROBYN
Key with all white notes	AMINOR
Lab work	TEST
Lag behind	TRAIL
Legendary frontier showman	CODY
Marco Polo's hometown	VENICE
Minutemen's school	UMASS
Missteps	ERRS
Object of devotion	IDOL
Only president with three VPs	FDR
Opposite of ''glossy''	DULL
Parts of a range: Abbr	MTS
Perform really well	SHINE
Picasso contemporary	DALI
Place to live	ABODE
Polished in manner	URBANE
Pre-admittance query	WHOISIT
Put to work	HIRED
Quiche serving	SLICE
Recreational athletics	SPORT
Red Cross workers, for short	DRS
Red Cross workers, for short	RNS
Refrigerant initials	CFC
River near the Leaning Tower	ARNO
Second chances	REDOS
See 6 Across	COMS
Series that had a ''Cyber'' spin-off	CSI
Small bands	TRIOS
Stage assistance	CUES
Stay (on)	LINGER
They're not serious	JESTS
Tiger's habitat	ASIA
Tire-gauge notation	PSI
Tolkien creature	ELF
Tribe encountered by Lewis and Clark	NEZPERCE
UN member since 1949	ISRAEL
URL opener	HTTP
Vision, in brand names	VUE
What a plane might be called	SHIP
Wheel's edge	RIM
Where rds. meet	JCT
With 14 Across, films like ''Pretty Woman''	ROM