Newsday.com - July 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com Puzzle - Jul 4 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Power pellet'' for 28 Down	ENERGIZER
''You're my only hope'' speaker in a '77 film	LEIA
17 Across alternative	TATA
As a consolation	ATLEAST
Ascribe to	PINON
Be obstructive to	STYMIE
Beach eater	GULL
Beer mugs, e.g	STONEWARE
Big name in Haitian rap	WYCLEF
Calms, as a crisis	DEFUSES
Carriage designed to be noticed	STRUT
Composed	SERENE
Conical firewood shape	TEPEE
Conversation ender	LATER
Conversation starter	PSST
Crack	ACE
Diamond former	PRESSURE
Dig too deeply	PRY
Don't recognize	DENY
Don't turn in	STAYUP
Edible part of anything	MEAT
Explosive sound	POW
Faith's opposite, per Kierkegaard	SIN
Furnish	ENTITLE
Get something through your head	SOAKITIN
Got into hot water	BATHED
Had unwanted flexibility	SAGGED
Hard to handle, in a way	GREASED
Henceforth's opposite	YET
High-pitched protest	PEEP
Immerses thoroughly	STEEPS
It might go with a miniskirt	MODESTY
Laurel Weaver, in ''Men in Black''	AGENTL
Name from Ancient Greek for ''desire''	EROS
Offer to help	ASKME
Out too late	PASTCURFEW
Overcome	BEATEN
Overshoot, say	ERR
Pay off	REDEEM
Philosophical palindrome	TENET
Picture posted on many a pole	LOSTDOG
Place for a pit stop	LAV
Plan A's antithesis	LASTRESORT
Proceed deviously	WORM
Regular slipper	KLUTZ
Reina Tudor	MARIA
Rescuers in whodunits	ANTIDOTES
Road __	TEST
Rummy offerings	BABAS
Salt and oxygen, to chemists	SOLUTES
Screen icon since the '80s	PACMAN
Shake	FAZE
Shields from capture, perhaps	ABETS
Six-legged bug	TSETSE
Some Jamaican jams	SKA
Spender of £17 million for a rowing lake	ETON
Stabilizes	EVENS
Start to go	LETIT
Suppress, with ''down''	SLAP
Touchy subject	HOTPOTATO
Touchy subject?	TACT
Treat shaped like toes	BEARCLAW
Triplets, quatrains, etc	STANZAS
Two-legged bug	DEVOTEE
Two-Oscar actor who wrote ''My Russia''	USTINOV
Urgent petition	ENTREATY
What a goose egg can indicate	NORUNS
When many stand alone	AGEONE
You might have a ball with it	TEA
__ shot	TEE