Newsday.com - Aug 23 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com Puzzle - August 23 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Alas, . . .''	IFEAR
''Deck the Halls'' excerpt	FALALA
''Figura __'' (Spanish skating pattern)	OCHO
''Inside'' data	INFO
''Nova'' network	PBS
''Outside'' prefix	EXO
''That really frosts me!''	IMMAD
''That was __, . . .''	THEN
''That's correct!''	DING
''Westminster'' clock sound	CHIME
''Works for me!''	YES
Above, in verse	OER
Accumulate to excess	HOARD
Alarming feeling	PANIC
Anything seen	IMAGE
Arizona State city	TEMPE
Asian cuisine	THAI
Authoritative source	BIBLE
Baby food	PAP
Ben Franklin wore them	BIFOCALS
Besties	PALS
Bids first	OPENS
Blends together	MELDS
Brief beachwear	BIKINI
Brit brat	LITTLENIPPER
Bulls and toms	MALES
Buy __ (believe)	INTO
Capital on a fjord	OSLO
Career soldier	LIFER
Cartoon squeal	EEK
Chance for grade improvement	MAKEUPTEST
Church official	ELDER
City northwest of Orlando	OCALA
Come-from-behind charge	RALLY
Common bond	LINK
Complex plan	SCHEME
Complex plan	PLOT
Cote calls	COOS
CPA crunch time	APRIL
Culturally pretentious	ARTSY
Digital publication	EBOOK
Don't take no for an answer	PRESS
Don't walk	RIDE
Drifts off	DOZES
Drive-thru devices	ATMS
Émigré, for example	EXILE
Erstwhile space station	MIR
Fabric material	FIBER
Far-ranging	WIDE
Feline line	MEOW
Fit for a queen	REGAL
Fix for a better fit	ALTER
Forest forager	BEAR
Full of wonder	AWED
Fund-raising dinner	GALA
Give up via treaty	CEDE
Goalie gear	MASK
Good luck charm	AMULET
Govt.-issued security	TNOTE
Graduate school grillings	ORALS
Gumbo essential	OKRA
Hardly any	SCANT
Helpful contingent	AIDES
Holders for toys and teas	CHESTS
Hun honcho	ATTILA
Incentive	SPUR
Italy's second city	MILAN
Japanese copier company	RICOH
Jones of nautical folklore	DAVY
Kings' superiors	ACES
Landscaper's chore	BRUSHREMOVAL
Leaf collector	RAKE
Left the building	EXITED
Legendary Mohawk leader	HIAWATHA
Letter closer of yore	SEALINGWAX
Map collection	ATLAS
Menlo Park monogram	TAE
Metaphor for luxury	LAP
Murray or Roddick of tennis	ANDY
Nation north of Venezuela	GRENADA
NBA Pacific Division team	LACLIPPERS
Negative prefix	NON
Netanyahu nickname	BIBI
Nitrogen's lack	ODOR
Not anonymous	NAMED
Not challenging	EASY
Not get used	SIT
Old-timey office reminder system	TICKLERFILE
Opposing forces	ARMIES
Oz originator	BAUM
Pants spec	SLIM
Paranormal glows	AURAS
Performed perfectly	NAILED
Place for a pin	LAPEL
Place to park	SPOT
Poetic sphere	ORB
Political campaigns	RACES
Porpoise cousins	ORCAS
Pratt of Avengers films	CHRIS
Progressive spokesperson	FLO
Provide the food for	CATER
Put a name to, informally	IDED
Quick and nimble	AGILE
Reprimand	SCOLD
Reveal something	TELL
Reverberates	PEALS
Rotisserie accessory	SPIT
Salt formula	NACL
Scanning technology, for short	OCR
Scrolls through	READS
Secure at a pier	MOOR
Shoes for folk dancing	CLOGS
Skating sport	ROLLERDERBY
Slip in some pots	IOU
Smacks on the mouth	SMOOCHES
Small soaker	WATERGUN
Snoozefest	BORE
Social media chuckle	LOL
Solemn statements	IDOS
Some Olympic racers	KAYAKERS
Sorority letters	RHOS
Source of discomfort	ACHE
Sports drink brand	GATORADE
Squandered	BLEW
Stretchy 65 Down	LYCRA
Swell, or so-so	OKAY
Takes one's leave	GOES
Throw with force	HEAVE
Totals	COMESTO
Tourney round passes	BYES
Train segment	CAR
Tulane rival	LSU
Turkey neighbor	IRAN
Turned the soil	PLOWED
TV host Seacrest	RYAN
Under the weather	ILL
Unpleasant duty	ONUS
Validate the books	AUDIT
Wartime neutral area	BUFFERZONE
Well chilled	ICECOLD
Wetlands tree	ALDER
Word that can usually be pluralized	NOUN
Yuletide stamp portrait	MADONNA
__ Field (home of the Mets)	CITI
__ Laredo, Mexico	NUEVO
__ paper (fine stationery)	RAG