Newsday.com - April 8 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Apr 8 2018

Clues	Answers
''Dr.'' of rap	DRE
''Hamilton'' creator __-Manuel Miranda	LIN
) or (, for short	PAREN
Actress/director Gerwig	GRETA
Apprehend, so to speak	NAIL
Aquatic lung	GILL
Ask earnestly	BEG
Berates	RANTSAT
Blacken on the grill	SEAR
Blue hue	TEAL
Bothersome one	PEST
Brunch selection	BAGEL
Brunch selection	EGGS
Carrier with King David Lounges	ELAL
Cartier competitor	ROLEX
Cause of shore erosion	TIDE
Certain staircase shape	SPIRAL
Chatty bird	MYNA
Chaucer story	TALE
Choral range	ALTO
Cinema luminary	MATINEEIDOL
Clearance sale stipulation	ASIS
Colorant	DYE
Combatants	SIDES
Comparatively crafty	SLYER
Contest submission	ENTRY
Crosshatch design	GRID
Daisy look-alike	ASTER
Dawn to dusk	DAY
Deep black	INKY
Designated	NAMED
Direct to a detour	REROUTE
Divine messenger	ANGEL
Dmitri's denial	NYET
Doze off	SLEEP
Drilling luminary	OILTYCOON
E-filing org	IRS
Electrical measure	AMP
Facebook photo labels	TAGS
FBI or CIA operative	USAGENT
First things to learn	ABCS
Flapjack franchise	IHOP
Flow out (from)	EMANATE
Flowing locks	MANES
French diarist	NIN
Freud colleague	ADLER
Genesis brother	ABEL
Gives off	EMITS
Golf great __ Norman	GREG
Graceless	RUDE
Gulf Coast city	TAMPA
Gulf Coast city	SARASOTA
HMO participants	MDS
Ill temper	IRE
In the distance	FAR
Inn pool, e.g	AMENITY
Iranian money	RIAL
Irreligious	PAGAN
Jogger's top	TSHIRT
Keep a low profile	HIDE
Kidney-related	RENAL
Kingly address	SIRE
Korean buffer, for short	DMZ
Lapel adornments	PINS
Lead the cast of	STARIN
Less decorated	BARER
Levelheaded	SANE
Lieutenant colonel's insignia	OAKLEAF
Long-legged wading bird	STILT
Loses firmness	SAGS
Love-seat complement	TWO
Luau greetings	ALOHAS
Lunch for livestock	FEED
Lyrical filler	TRALALA
Mardi __	GRAS
Marner of fiction	SILAS
Menagerie structures	CAGES
Mexican painter	KAHLO
Mock fanfare	TADA
Moppet	TOT
Mountain climber's spike	PITON
Moves around	ROAMS
Musical or muscular	TONED
National Humor Mo	APR
NFL passers	QBS
Not to exceed	ATMOST
Notes around the office	MEMOS
Off-white shade	PEARL
Pack, as cargo	STOW
Pageant luminary	BEAUTYQUEEN
Painter Cassatt	MARY
Parts of dovetail joints	TENONS
PC alternative	MAC
Percolated	LEACHED
Performed brilliantly	SHONE
Physicians' devices	PAGERS
Piece-of-cake course	EASYA
Piqued moods	SNITS
Poet's preposition	ERE
Power production luminary	ENERGYCZAR
Prefix for virus	ANTI
Presidential nickname	ABE
Prince Harry's aunt	ANNE
Promotional connection	TIEIN
Pub potable	ALE
Purplish red	MAGENTA
Purviews	AREAS
Ranching luminary	CATTLEBARON
Render void	ANNUL
Rhythmical	CADENT
Rock-music luminary	GUITARGOD
Saxophonist's accessory	MUTE
Saxophonist's accessory	REED
Semester	TERM
Shiny fabric	SATINET
Shoppers' carryalls	TOTEBAGS
Slightest sound	PEEP
Slip past	ELUDE
Slugging luminary	HOMERUNKING
Small-size M&M's	MINIS
Smallest of the Olympians	EROS
Smartphone message	TEXT
Stir up	RILE
Storytelling dance	HULA
Taking little time	FAST
Talia of ''Rocky'' movies	SHIRE
Talk at length	GAB
Tex-Mex dips	SALSAS
Thin cable	WIRE
Tough-to-hit tennis shot	NETBALL
Transcript figs	GPAS
Travel business	RENTACAR
TV/publishing luminary	MEDIAMOGUL
Type of to-do list	AGENDA
Typical Riyadhi	ARAB
Uniquely	ALONE
Very much	ALOT
Whistle blast	TOOT
White-center snack	OREO
Wimbledon delayer	RAIN
Window treatment	BLIND
Wise advisors	SAGES
With no nervousness	SERENELY
Wool source	EWE
__ blanche	CARTE
__ Clara County (Silicon Valley locale)	SANTA