Newsday.com - July 13 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com Puzzle - Jul 13 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Darn it!''	DRAT
''For shame!'' sounds	TSKS
''Once __ a time . . .''	UPON
''Sorry I dropped that''	OOPS
. . . to help you keep paint off furniture	DROPCLOTHS
. . . to help you paint the ceiling	STEPLADDER
. . . to help you scrape off old paint	PUTTYKNIFE
. . . to help you wipe away old paint	TURPENTINE
Actress Stone or Watson	EMMA
Any smartphone, for short	CELL
Backyard cookout spot	PATIO
Break sharply	SNAP
Ceramic flooring material	TILE
Change for a five	ONES
Compete (for)	VIE
Computer manual reader	USER
Crumble away gradually	ERODE
Disgusting, to a child	ICKY
Doesn't play by the rules	CHEATS
Dog visiting Oz	TOTO
Eve's second son	ABEL
Exams where answers are spoken	ORALS
Farm's grain tower	SILO
Force of a collision	IMPACT
Full of wry humor	DROLL
Fury	IRE
Gambling probabilities	ODDS
Genie's offering	WISH
Girl explorer of cartoons	DORA
Glide down snowy slopes	SKI
Go out with	DATE
Got up from a chair	STOOD
Infamous Roman emperor	NERO
Initial poker stake	ANTE
Keep in a cabinet folder	FILE
Kitchen or den	ROOM
Largest continent	ASIA
Likes very much	ADORES
Local sandwich shop	DELI
Long, slinky fishes	EELS
Lose one's footing	SLIP
Make socks or a sweater	KNIT
Maple or magnolia	TREE
Milky gemstones	OPALS
More difficult	HARDER
Musical speed	TEMPO
New staff member	HIREE
No longer fresh, as old bread	STALE
Not fooled by	ONTO
Ocean's rise and fall	TIDE
Orderly and clean	NEAT
Parakeets and poodles	PETS
Party thrower	HOST
Picturesque lodgings	INNS
Pork or beef	MEAT
Post office purchase	STAMP
Press wrinkles out of	IRON
Pro __ (proportionally)	RATA
Repair, as a garment	MEND
Revealed, as a secret	BARED
Sheep mothers	EWES
Short comedic sketch	SKIT
Shut a door angrily	SLAM
Sit with a book	READ
Slippery, as an icy road	SLICK
Spooky	EERIE
Spouse	MATE
Sugar cube-into-tea sound	PLOP
Twelfth of a foot	INCH
Two-year-old kids	TOTS
Unravel, as a mystery	SOLVE
Ventilates	AIRS
Vicinity	AREA
Walked a nature trail	HIKED
Washbowl	BASIN
Wept	CRIED
Wild guess	STAB
__ about (approximately)	ONOR