Newsday.com - Aug 31 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Newsday.com - Aug 31 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
''Letter-shaped'' steak	TBONE
''Not to mention . . .''	ALSO
98.6 degrees, for body temperature	NORMAL
Achy	SORE
Act boldly	DARE
Aviator	PILOT
Baby grand, for example	PIANO
Baggage attachment	IDTAG
Batting next	ONDECK
Become less good	WORSEN
Bits of paint	DABS
Bopped on the head	CONKED
Broad-ranging	WIDE
Cavity filler's deg	DDS
Charming Southern woman	BELLE
Dads	PAPAS
Difficult burden	ONUS
Donkeys	ASSES
Dove's call	COO
Fawns' moms	DOES
Female opera star	DIVA
Female pigs	SOWS
Film rating org	MPAA
Fire-setting crime	ARSON
Fixes dishonestly	RIGS
Food safety org	USDA
For each, informally	APOP
Formal decree	FIAT
Genesis paradise	EDEN
German car	AUDI
Give an autograph	SIGN
Guy	MAN
Has the lead role	STARS
Have lofty goals	ASPIRE
Illegally obtained	STOLEN
Kid's vehicle on snow	SLED
Kingly title	SIRE
Layer of paint	COAT
Loads and loads	ALOT
Make less burdensome	EASE
Manipulate, as bread dough	KNEAD
March 17th honoree, for short	STPAT
NCO's subordinates	PFCS
Network junction point	NODE
Online message	EMAIL
Past and present, for verbs	TENSES
Pasta similar to ziti	PENNE
Person using oars	ROWER
Person who stares	OGLER
Poetic low-lying land	VALE
Remove from office	OUST
Resign	QUIT
Rotisserie rod	SPIT
Seasoning in a shaker	SALT
Seat for relaxing in a pool	FLOATINGLOUNGER
Self-assurance	POISE
Skeptical comment	IBET
Slice, as a turkey	CARVE
Smallest till bill	ONE
Spike of frozen water	ICICLE
Spirited horse	STEED
Springy device for jumping into a pool	DIVINGBOARD
Stern about rules	STRICT
Striped big cat	TIGER
Sudden storm	SQUALL
Suffix for prank or gang	STER
Swimming pool's purifier	WATERFILTER
Taken __ (very surprised)	ABACK
Tech-support type	NERD
The Emerald Isle	ERIN
Tip over	UPEND
W. Coast winter hours	PST
Way below average	POOR
Wedding vow	IDO
What a belt encircles	WAIST
__ about (approximately)	ONOR
__ be tied (furious)	FITTO
__ importance (trivial)	OFNO