Newsday.com Jan 9 2021 Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - Jan 9 2021 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''A great volcano of a man who sang fire,'' per Bono	PAVAROTTI
''Are we good?''	HAPPY
''How do you figure THAT?''	HUH
''Let's see who's faster!''	RACEME
''Nouveau-Mexique,'' for one	ETAT
''Zealot'' apostle	STSIMON
Aerial attack	SWOOP
Alpine towers on the way out	TBARS
Analytics expert	DATAMINER
Annual ''People'' cover word	SEXIEST
Antique letter opener	SIRS
Beatnik's show of empathy	IDIG
Best imaginable results	OPTIMA
Bite	SHARPNESS
Bug out	GOONTHELAM
Certain supplemental coverage	MEDIGAP
Come up short	OWE
Compounds in fertilizer	PHOSPHATES
Dashiki, for instance	TOP
Determined to get it done	ONAMISSION
Devices with virtual keys	SMARTLOCKS
Do not exist	ARENT
Emancipation Proclamation, e.g	EDICT
Ersatz screwdriver	COIN
Existentialist's void	NONBEING
For any reason	ATALL
Group game with Yoshi and Luigi	MARIOPARTY
Half hexadeca-	OCTO
Heyday for voice actors	RADIOERA
Hoop group	NBATEAMS
Household openers	KNOBS
Hypnogram reading	REMSLEEP
Inspirational assistance	SCUBA
Mandate for maturity	ACTYOURAGE
Maximal ascendancy	APEX
Media Player file format	AVI
Metaphor for fading	EMBERS
Musical instrument that can emulate whale calls	WATERPHONE
Name related to Ilie	ELIAS
Novel minimizer	ETTE
NYY rival	BAL
Once-popular middle name	MAE
One in a Rubik's race	SPEEDCUBER
Ones with thick spines	TOMES
Onetime FDR employer	NYS
Passing fancy	MANIA
Pivotal place	EPICENTER
Platform for 40 Across	NES
Platters weighing only 120 g	LPS
Preferred, in a phrase	GOTO
Pushup muscle, informally	TRI
Put together early	PREMADE
Quirk	TIC
Recipe reduction	TSP
Reply to a back-seat driver's warning	ISEEIT
Revolutionary movement	EDDY
Sensibly composed	SANE
Show place	STAGE
Son of Cain	ENOCH
Sounds of surprise	OHS
Starts slinging mud	GETSNASTY
Straw beds	PALLETS
Tanning salon array	OILS
Trick's conclusion	STER
Very soon	INAMOMENT
What Julius Caesar once was	SENATOR
Worked on a board	SAWED
Wow factor	ECLAT