Newsday.com Apr 2 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com Crossword - April 2 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
''Pistol'' follower, in sports nicknames	PETE
''The Last Jedi'' commander	LEIA
A panhandle state	IDAHO
ABA member	ATT
Aerobatic maneuver	LOOPTHELOOP
Affectionate	TENDER
Alpaca cousin	LLAMA
Alphabetic quartet	TUVW
Any of two million+ Japanese	OSAKAN
Appropriates	TAKES
Ashe contemporary	LAVER
Battling (again)	ATIT
BBC receiver	TELLY
Be boastful	TALKTHETALK
Bring to mind	EVOKE
Cause of a blast	TNT
Chianti, ''per esempio''	VINO
Citadel student	CADET
Conversation filler	YKNOW
Crime lab material	DNA
Dairy Queen servings	MOOLATTES
Deliver on one's promises	WALKTHEWALK
Desirable cabin view	LAKE
Dickensian title starter	ATALE
Extended defrosting	THAW
Extended story	SAGA
Fast company?	NASCAR
Fastball catcher	MITT
Fort near Louisville	KNOX
Frat letter	ZETA
Glorify	EXALT
Green smoothie ingredient	KIWI
Green smoothie ingredient	KALE
Homie's hangout	HOOD
Hot rock	LAVA
Infamous czar	IVAN
Italian physicist	VOLTA
Itemizes	LISTS
Japanese canine	AKITA
Jazz band regulars	SAXES
Koran's first proper name	ALLAH
Last word of Handel's ''Messiah''	AMEN
Latter-day ''Huh?''	WHATTHEWHAT
Little guy	TYKE
Loosens up	EASES
Love poems, e.g	ODES
Make straight	EVEN
Making things happen	PROACTIVE
Metaphor for glory	BLAZE
Mythical archer	EROS
Nile-region reptiles	ASPS
Nonstandard ''Anyway . . .''	WELP
Philippines neighbor	PALAU
Play Store selection	APP
Practice jabbing	SPAR
Prepare a jack-o'-lantern	CARVE
Receive from a deck	DRAW
Rubbery material	LATEX
Sam of ''Jurassic Park''	NEILL
School northwest of Harrisburg	PENNSTATE
Scintilla	IOTA
Shot in the dark	STAB
Soil scrapers	HOES
Sonar sound	PING
Speaker's preparation	SLIDESHOW
Spun product	WEB
Standard of perfection	IDEAL
Typing stat	WPM
UK peer title	RTHON
Unapt anagram of ''A SONY''	SANYO
Urgent request	PLEA
VCR button	REWIND
Verne's underwater voyager	NEMO
Where tweets originate	NEST
Without zip	BLAH
__ Tzu	SHIH