Newsday.com - July 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com Puzzle - Jul 5 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''. . . __ the cows come home''	TIL
''For __ a jolly good fellow''	HES
''Infinite'' descriptor of black holes	DENSE
''Mulligan'' meal	STEW
''Rumor __ it . . .''	HAS
''That __ hurt a bit!''	DIDNT
''__ number one!''	WERE
A Van Gogh home	ARLES
About to bloom	INBUD
Ancient board game	CHESS
Any song on Elvis Radio	OLDIE
Auto frame material	STEEL
Avocado-shaped	OVAL
Backpacker's shelter	TENT
Bags in a grocery bag	TEA
Bakery by-product	AROMA
Ball-bearing peg	TEE
Be of use	AVAIL
Beachhouse selling point	VIEW
Before now	PRIOR
Big screen format	IMAX
Bit of cauliflower	FLORET
Bit of hair gel	DAB
Bracelet bauble	CHARM
Brought onboard	HIRED
Bus alternative	UBER
California's Big __	SUR
Camp beds	COTS
Capitol Hill helper-outer	PAGE
Capitol Hill helper-outers	AIDES
Cavalry officer's blade	SABER
Christmas carol octet	MAIDS
Clamorous	NOISY
Coffee holders	URNS
Coin of Yemen	RIAL
Colonial capital founded July 4, 1636	PROVIDENCERHODEISLAND
Contraction heard in the first ''Jazz Singer''	AINT
Coral structures	REEFS
Court assessments	FINES
Covert meeting	TRYST
Crossed marks	EXES
Cut (off)	LOP
Defiant talk	SASS
Druid, for example	PAGAN
Dull sound	THUD
Elastic straps around socks	GARTERS
Evil spells	HEXES
Extreme opposite of ''nutritious''	TOXIC
Family guy's nickname	PAPA
Film genre	DRAMA
Flamboyant tie	ASCOT
Flimsy	WEAK
Floor covering	RUGS
Fly-fisher's move	CAST
Go off course	VEER
Gobi Desert locale	ASIA
Grandson of Esau	OMAR
Half a sneaker set	SHOE
In a devious manner	SLYLY
Inspires, with ''up''	FIRES
Intense spirit	ARDOR
Keep hidden	CLOAK
Last flower in the first section of a botanical dictionary	AZALEA
Less than rigorous	LAX
Long and lean	RANGY
Love to bits	ADORE
Lower oneself	DEIGN
Marisa in Spider-Man movies	TOMEI
Metaphor for control	REINS
Metrical tributes	ODES
More arduous	HARDER
More than enough	AMPLE
Mountain evergreen	CEDAR
Moves at retail	SELLS
Musher's vehicle	SLED
Musical releases	ALBUMS
Nation east of Jamaica	HAITI
No-name	GENERIC
Not as rainy	DRIER
Not falling for	ONTO
NY college that opened July 4, 1802	USMILITARYACADEMY
Omit from pronunciation	ELIDE
Part of Einstein's equation	MASS
Patriotic song first published as a poem July 4, 1895	AMERICATHEBEAUTIFUL
Peruvian range	ANDES
Phone panel images	ICONS
Poetic foot	IAMB
Pool partition	LANE
Porous gem	OPAL
Portrait medium	OIL
Pringles alternative	LAYS
Protrudes	JUTS
Pussy-cat's poetic partner	OWL
Put up	BUILD
QB's triumphs	TDS
Queen Anne's House	STUART
Ranked in a tourney	SEEDED
Records that may be ''personal''	BESTS
Removal instruction	DELE
Samuel Beckett's no-show	GODOT
Sandpaper spec	COARSE
School founded by Booker T. Washington July 4, 1881	TUSKEGEEINSTITUTE
Science classrooms	LABS
Set aside	ALLOT
Seuss environmentalist	LORAX
Ship's bottom	HULL
Sky hue	AZURE
Slalom course, essentially	CURVES
Sorority letter	PSI
South Beach city	MIAMI
Spend futilely	WASTE
Stand for meeting rooms	EASEL
Start of Alaskan zip codes	NINE
Start to awaken	STIR
State with a 2020 bicentennial	MAINE
Storied soul seller	FAUST
Sudan neighbor	CHAD
Suffix for star	LET
Suggests strongly	URGES
Swirling water	EDDY
Taken __ (astonished)	ABACK
The original reindeer namer	MOORE
They often work around the clock	HANDS
Tiniest bit	IOTA
Tool in a trunk	JACK
Tot's wheels	TRIKE
Touch upon	ABUT
Town adjacent to Windsor	ETON
Trailblazing folk hero	BOONE
Tuba material	BRASS
Twin columnists born July 4, 1918	ANNLANDERSANDDEARABBY
Typical Delhian	HINDU
Uncolorful	DRAB
Uncool ones	BORES
Unexpected inconvenience	SNAG
Unreliable one	LIAR
Utility bill extra	INSERT
Venerated village leader	ELDER
Villainous visage	LEER
Voice of Apple	SIRI
Walk casually	AMBLE
Westernmost continental Europe	IBERIA
Winter coat	SNOW
With nothing to do	IDLE
Worker's compensation	WAGE
Zebra colt's mother	MARE