Newsday.com Nov 3 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - November 3 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Believe __ not!''	ITOR
''Me too''	DITTO
''Tall'' story	TALE
''What's __ for me?''	INIT
''Whoopee!''	YAHOO
Anthem or ballad	SONG
Any literary category	GENRE
Approximately	ABOUT
Auto wheel	TIRE
Away from other people	ISOLATED
Back muscles, for short	LATS
Back-in-style fashion	RETRO
Become ripe	AGE
Bird in a coop	HEN
Bit of help for a sleuth	CLUE
Chooses (to)	OPTS
Cleveland's state	OHIO
Clouds (up)	FOGS
Colorful part of the eye	IRIS
Concentrate on a task	FOCUS
Consume eagerly	EATUP
Cradle or crib	BED
Dark green spheres on a relish tray	SPANISHOLIVES
Dashed off on foot	RAN
Difficult journey	TREK
Distress signal	SOS
Double-__ sword	EDGED
Elevate	LIFT
Fake coins	SLUGS
Flat-topped hill	MESA
Frog's cousin	TOAD
Fruit that becomes a prune	PLUM
Go __ (set sail)	TOSEA
Good friend	PAL
In these times	NOWADAYS
Installments of a TV show	EPISODES
Item of value	ASSET
Knockwurst or bratwurst	GERMANSAUSAGE
Large African desert	SAHARA
Leak slowly	SEEP
Long-lasting hairdos, for short	PERMS
Mail-drop opening	SLOT
Main point	GIST
Minor earthquake	TREMOR
Neighborhood	AREA
Not diluted	PURE
Oceans' rises and falls	TIDES
Oil-and-vinegar salad topping	ITALIANDRESSING
Omit from consideration	SKIP
Pea container	POD
Peculiar	ODD
Person downloading apps	USER
Pink flower symbol of Mississippi	MAGNOLIA
Quaint lodgings	INNS
Remove, as a tree branch	SAWOFF
Rolled into a coil	WOUND
Rung of a ladder	STEP
Self-defense spray	MACE
Sergeant's ''Stop!''	HALT
Silent street performer	MIME
Small boy	LAD
Soup-making vessels	POTS
Source of bath bubbles	SOAP
Stared at	OGLED
States something as fact	SAYSSO
Stinging insect	WASP
Strong affection	LOVE
Stubborn beast	ASS
Sword handles	HILTS
Thin cut in an envelope	SLIT
To no __ (useless)	AVAIL
Tortilla chip	NACHO
Typeface	FONT
Wildly excited	AGOG
Wilted, as lettuce	LIMP
__ now and then (occasionally)	EVERY