Newsday.com May 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com Crossword - May 5 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
''Be __ as it may . . .''	THAT
''Door's open, come __!''	ONIN
''Humble'' dwellings	ABODES
''On the __ hand . . .''	OTHER
''What difference __ it make?''	DOES
''__ about time!''	ITS
Academy Award	OSCAR
Addition totals	SUMS
Airport vehicle larger than a van	BUS
Animal hair	FUR
Baby food consistency	PUREE
Beagle or basset hound	BREED
Bird in city parks	PIGEON
Charged atoms	IONS
Cleaner of hotel rooms	MAID
Commotion	ADO
Decorates with ornaments	ADORNS
Desert caravan beast	CAMEL
Difficult, as a challenge	TOUGH
Dry as a desert	ARID
Engine	MOTOR
Everyone	ALL
Ewe or lamb	SHEEP
Flatten with an iron	PRESS
Fork prong	TINE
Glass in binoculars	LENS
Golfer's peg	TEE
Good fortune	LUCK
Grain storage towers	SILOS
Hive insect	BEE
Home for a hatchling	NEST
In flames	AFIRE
In __ straits (needing help)	DIRE
India's continent	ASIA
Japanese soup	MISO
Large stack	PILE
Last year's jrs	SRS
Light-bending crystal	PRISM
Lion's sound	ROAR
Mom's brother	UNCLE
Neighborhood	AREA
Neither's partner	NOR
Not applicable	INAPT
Not doing anything	IDLE
Of moms and dads	PARENTAL
One mowing an outfield	GROUNDSKEEPER
Opera solos	ARIAS
Outer space agency	NASA
Pecan or cashew	NUT
Performed in a choir	SANG
Person calling balls and strikes	HOMEPLATEUMPIRE
Person paid to play sports	PRO
Prefix meaning ''center''	MID
Prepare for an exam	STUDY
President John Quincy __	ADAMS
Push roughly	SHOVE
Race with batons	RELAY
React to a shock	GASP
Ready to harvest	RIPE
Requiring talking	ORAL
Run out, as a subscription	LAPSE
Scarlet and crimson	REDS
Settle a debt	PAYUP
Singer Orbison	ROY
Skirt fold	PLEAT
Slight amount	IOTA
Soak thoroughly	SATURATE
Software buyer	USER
Sound system booster	AMP
Sports bar screen	TVSET
Stadium seller of kernel snacks	POPCORNVENDOR
Stare at	OGLE
Stiffly proper	PRIM
The first woman	EVE
Tire surface	TREAD
Top of one's head	SCALP
Very nearly	ALMOST
Weather report chart	MAP