Newsday.com Jan 2 2021 Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - Jan 2 2021 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Real'' thing	ESTATE
''__ Variations'' (Beethoven piece)	EROICA
10-time '''Muscle & Fitness'' cover subject	FERRIGNO
4.184 gigajoules, vis-à-vis TNT	ONETON
Age	ERA
Becomes careless	NODS
Blame takers	GOATS
Brit's gold coin	SOV
Burning sensation	IRE
Chafes	RUBSRAW
Cheaters	SPECS
Cherished	DEAR
City on New Providence	NASSAU
Color close to cream	ECRU
Consist of	ARE
County northeast of London	ESSEX
Cuts short	CROPS
Exceptional	RARE
Fine drawer features	TENONS
Flavors	TASTES
Flop	DUD
Fully	INTOTO
Galleries	TIERS
George I predecessor	ANNE
Go before	ANTECEDE
Hall of Famer, by definition	ENSHRINEE
Hall of Famers, by definition	GREATS
Havana? No	STOGIE
Having bounced once	ONAHOP
HHH successor as VP	STA
Honker	SNOOT
Ibsen character	ASE
Laugh, perhaps	REACT
Less windy	TERSER
Like a lot, perhaps	AUCTIONED
Main point	THRUST
Marimba mallet material	RATTAN
Murphy, per O'Toole's Corollary	OPTIMIST
Not as practical	DREAMIER
Not for here	TOGO
Odin's wife in 2011's ''Thor''	RENERUSSO
Of rest	SABBATIC
Ottoman conquest of 1458	ATHENS
Peace Nobelist after Anwar and Menachem	TERESA
Plenty of nothing	GOOSEEGGS
Proteus, e.g	SEAGOD
Realize	NET
Salon offerings	ARTSONGS
Second-string players?	CHARACTERACTORS
Serving and protecting	ONPATROL
Shakespearean title character	CRESSIDA
Ship in a Longfellow poem	HESPERUS
Sound effect	REVERB
Spousal __	IRA
Stimulus	CUE
Suit tag letters	REG
Tchaikovsky's ''Souvenir de Florence,'' e.g	SEXTET
The least bit of concern	HOOT
Took in	ATE
Tot's coat attachment	MITTEN
Tried	HADAGO
US stamp series subject of 1945-46	FDR
Venerable boarding school	ETON
Video category	ANIME
Waited	SAT
War zones	SECTORS
What botanists call ''Ambrosia''	RAGWEEDS
Works with a certain stick	GLUESON