Newsday.com Oct 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - October 27 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Dear old'' father	DAD
''Half'' prefix for sphere	HEMI
''If it __ broke . . .''	AINT
''Not guilty,'' for example	PLEA
''Same here''	SOAMI
''You have my word __''	ONIT
''__ sesame!''	OPEN
35 Across city on the Rio Grande	LAREDO
Actress Close	GLENN
Athlete who's paid	PRO
Attorney's expertise	LAW
Beasts in a sty	PIGS
Belly muscles	ABS
Belongs to, as a club	ISPARTOF
Blue-to-red horizon	THESKYATSUNSET
Cancels an editorial deletion	STETS
Chooses, with ''for''	OPTS
Coin in Italy	EURO
Con game	SCAM
Corrodes, as iron	RUSTS
Diner take-out order	TOGO
Doesn't attend	SKIPS
End of a power cord	PLUG
Falling-apart cars	HEAPS
Forest clearing	GLADE
Game played at Wimbledon	TENNIS
General vicinity	AREA
Green-to-red BLT ingredient	RIPENINGTOMATO
Green-to-yellow foliage	LEAVESINTHEFALL
Helpful hints	TIPS
In the past	AGO
Just hangs around	IDLES
Justice Kagan	ELENA
Large crowd	HORDE
Little pies	TARTS
Long-running feud	VENDETTA
Love, in Italy	AMORE
Map out	PLAN
Memo header	INRE
Netherlands' floral symbol	TULIP
Nose, informally	SNOOT
Not worth debating	MOOT
Online diary	BLOG
Page in an atlas	MAP
Pampering place	SPA
Perched on	ATOP
Petroleum measure: Abbr	BBL
Piece of a flower	PETAL
Planet's line of rotation	AXIS
Plop down on a chair	SIT
Point of a constellation	STAR
Practice for a bout	SPAR
Pulverized, as potatoes	MASHED
Radiate, as rays	EMIT
Reduced-price event	SALE
Remove a pencil mark	ERASE
Rings __ (sounds familiar)	ABELL
Rock source of petroleum	SHALE
Rung of a ladder	STEP
School semester	TERM
Shape of a hockey puck	DISC
Sharpen, as skills	HONE
Skeptical person	CYNIC
Stray from the script	ADLIB
Stuck-up person	SNOB
Thaw	MELT
The Lone Star State	TEXAS
Tiny amount	IOTA
Triumphed in the end	WONOUT
Vapor from a radiator	STEAM
War horse	STEED
What a spider spins	WEB
Where a ship docks	PIER
Work hard	TOIL
Would like to have	WANTS
__ days (time long past)	OLDEN