Newsday.com - Oct 23 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - October 23 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Equal-foot'' crustacean	ISOPOD
''Princess Bride'' pirate portrayer	ELWES
''Rabbit of Seville'' antagonist	ELMER
''Rock reunion'' performance	OLDIE
''The Bachelor'' presentation	ROSE
3+ light-years	PARSEC
Absorb slowly	OSMOSE
Analyze closely	PARSE
Ancient teller of animal tales	AESOP
Aquasana alternative	BRITA
Beast that's a fruit without its tail	ORANG
Break in continuity	GAP
Caster's implement	ROD
Colonial pamphleteer	PAINE
Comedy Central celebrity special	ROAST
Common prayer starter	OHLORD
Contents of '70s cassettes	VIDEOTAPE
Critic's starter or ender	HARDC
Curative quantity	DOSE
Elizabeth I's father	HENRY
Eminent urban architect	PEI
End of quote	UNDERSTANDSME
Equally	ASWELL
Examine closely	EYE
Fashion designer Saab	ELIE
Fundamentally	INESSENCE
Further down	DEEPER
German Literature Nobelist	HESSE
Get quick cash for	HOCK
GPS reading	NNE
GPs' grp	AMA
Group met by Gulliver	YAHOOS
Hardly a walk in the park	ORDEAL
Horse/donkey hybrid	HINNY
Huge hole	CHASM
Hun on the run	MARAUDER
Largest Greek island	CRETE
Luminary	VIP
Marsupial, familiarly	POSSUM
Mediterranean-origin prefix	ITALO
Middle of quote	MEYETNOBODY
Miscounted, say	ERRED
More than one-track	STEREO
NBC debut of '75 (and still at it)	SNL
Noun-forming suffix	NESS
Ordered in an eatery	HAD
Org. with Adoption Centers	ASPCA
PC ''go back'' key	ESC
Playback stopper	PAUSE
Poetic direction	YON
Pothook shape	ESS
Pricey	STEEP
Professional calculator	CPA
Pursue, or pursuit	CHASE
Reason colleague	RHYME
Reggae performer, often	RASTA
Seagoing salutations	AHOYS
Sinise CBS series	CSINY
Sleaze	CREEPO
Small ''numero italiano''	TRE
Start of an Albert Einstein quote	EVERYONELIKES
Swiss partner, often	HAM
Taos, for instance	ARTCOLONY
Testy	IRASCIBLE
Tinted slightly	PALE
Toyed with	LEDON
Turkish sweet treat	HALVAH
Ultimate degree	NTH
Unpressured	EASY
What a collar covers	NAPE
Whiny explanation	SOBSTORY
__ jiffy	INA