Newsday.com - March 8 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 8 2018 

Clues	Answers
''In other words,'' in full	IDEST
46 Across homonym	TEA
Alternative nickname to Xander	ALEX
Ballot marks, perhaps	EXES
Barracks, for instance	MILITARYHOUSING
Barrels of laughs	RIOTS
Biennial games org	USOC
Brandy flavoring	PLUM
Brink	VERGE
Budding-flower protectors	SEPALS
Camped in the woods	Roughedit
Casino call	HITME
Cereal crop	RYE
Certain new spouse	BRIDE
Closet contents, perhaps	LINEN
Collectively	INALL
Comeback of a sort	ECHO
Comics bark	ARF
Complain without words	MOAN
Cooks just a bit	SEARS
Cooperative group	BLOC
County near London	ESSEX
Dawn goddess	EOS
DC suburb	MCLEAN
Do really great	EXCEL
Dragon or phoenix	MYTHICALBEING
Enthusiastic	AVID
Freeway lane designation	HOV
Gallic girlfriend	AMIE
Gather for a while	AMASS
Gets on stage	ENTERS
Gettysburg general	MEADE
Give up formally	CEDE
Good tug	YANK
Harmful spells	HEXES
Hatch a plot	SCHEME
Headquartered	BASED
Illusionary abstractions	OPART
Impair	HARM
Ingrained by habit	USUAL
It expelled James Bond	ETON
It's essential to snapping	THUMB
Itinerary portion	LEG
Keep attentive	RIVET
List shortener	ETAL
Long-running morning TV host	RIPA
Longtime NASCAR sponsor	STP
Mane, essentially	HAIR
McKellen of movies	IAN
Merchant's workplace	SHOP
More noble career pursuit	HIGHERCALLING
Peg for driving	TEE
Podiatrist concerns	ARCHES
Porpoise cousins	ORCAS
Prayer finale	AMEN
Retro communicator	FLIPPHONE
Scratch or dent	MAR
Smog component	OZONE
Snap course	EASYA
Some limbs	ARMS
Something in the air	ODOR
Sort of hat	DERBY
Sound of a minor explosion	ACHOO
Sound of a minor explosion	SNEEZE
Stare at	EYE
Stared at	OGLED
Starter for drive storage	TERA
Subject to strain	TAX
Supply for a press	INKS
Symbol of sagacity	OWL
Talk-show host Meyers	SETH
Tom's complaints	MEOWS
Uncool one	NERD
Vega's constellation	LYRA
What followed the franc	EURO
What Wash. is west of	IDA
Where the elated walk	ONAIR
Wintry, in brand names	SNO