Newsday.com - Oct 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com Puzzle - October 5 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Actor Sinise of ''Forrest Gump''	GARY
Artist's stand	EASEL
Baby's pop	DADA
Board game's regulations	RULES
Boat's steering blade	RUDDER
Boston's state: Abbr	MASS
Brief film role	CAMEO
Brief in one's words	TERSE
Cavalry sword	SABER
Change for a $20 bill	TENS
Chopped down	AXED
Coffee alternative	TEA
Come back to a club	REJOIN
Compass point opposite NNW	SSE
Competitive edge	ADVANTAGE
Creative thought	IDEA
Eight-sided street sign	STOP
Eve and Adam's garden	EDEN
Extend across	SPAN
Feels sorry about	RUES
Fender dings	DENTS
Fly like an eagle	SOAR
Forget to include	OMIT
Fortune-teller	SEER
Frequently	ALOT
Grass-covered yard	LAWN
Great respect	ADMIRATION
Had a meal	ATE
Hair-stiffening goo	GEL
Having a minor argument	SPATTING
Highly skilled	ADEPT
In the __ (long ago)	PAST
Is boastful	BRAGS
Jam-packed	DENSE
Knights' titles	SIRS
Leave well enough __	ALONE
Like very much	ADORE
Long, heroic story	EPIC
Lost one's footing	SLID
Make revisions to	EDIT
Marking on a Dalmatian	SPOT
Middle of the Three Bears	MAMA
Oven's countdown device	TIMER
Overly formal	STILTED
Quick	RAPID
Require	NEED
Restful state	REPOSE
River-blocking structure	DAM
Roaring feline	LION
Rod between car wheels	AXLE
Roll of sticky cellophane	TAPE
Run out, as a subscription	LAPSE
Save for later	SETASIDE
Serbian or Bulgarian	SLAV
Small group of experts	PANEL
Soother in skin lotion	ALOE
Spaghetti or ziti	PASTA
Speaker's podium	LECTERN
Started a poker pot	ANTED
Story's surprise	TWIST
Swerve suddenly	VEER
Tavern	BAR
Teenager	ADOLESCENT
Temple platforms	ALTARS
Thinnest American coin	DIME
Turn out to be	ENDUP
Underground drainage system	SEWER
Untruthful ones	LIARS
Urban air pollution	SMOG
Veal or beef	MEAT
Verified an age, in a bar	IDED
Very impressed	INAWE
Very smart person	BRAIN
Whirling water in an ocean	EDDY
Window sticker	DECAL
Word that modifies a noun	ADJECTIVE
__ mater	ALMA
__ of the above (something else)	NONE