Newsday.com - Feb 27 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - Feb 27 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''12 Days of Christmas'' verb	PIPING
''Drat!''	OHNUTS
''Get lost!''	SCRAM
''Me too''	SOAMI
''On the Road'' narrator	SAL
''Star Wars'' robot	DROID
1: __ (classical music)	OPERASBYBEETHOVEN
3: __ (zoology)	HEARTSOFANOCTOPUS
4/15 addressee	IRS
5: __ (sports)	RINGSONTHEOLYMPICFLAG
7: __ (ancient tourism)	WONDERSOFTHEWORLD
9: __ (gambling)	BACCARATHIGHSCORE
Add sound effects, say	DUB
Atlanta campus	EMORY
Average NBAer, compared to the average NFLer	TALLER
Balance center	INNEREAR
Barbadian singer	RIHANNA
Barbecue toppings	RUBS
Bed of a dry lake	MUDFLAT
Beginner	NOVICE
Big lug	OAF
Bowl over	WOW
Bright northern star	ALTAIR
Bunch of buddies	GANG
Caesarean rebuke	ETTU
Calibrate to get straight	ALIGN
Capital of Cyprus	NICOSIA
Capital on the Mississippi	STPAUL
Chatroom ha-ha	LOL
Clue in TV crimes	DNA
Comedian Poehler	AMY
Counting everything	ALLTOLD
Country with the most lakes	CANADA
Crisis key on a PC	ESC
Crisis squad	SWATTEAM
Cuisine with baba ghanouj	LEBANESE
Custard dessert	FLAN
Dakota or Winnebago	SIOUAN
Defamatory writing	LIBEL
Designer Ashley	LAURA
Discoveries	FINDS
Drink that may be pink	TEA
E. Germany, to natives	DDR
Early 11th-century date	MIV
Eminent conductor	MAESTRO
End of UNESCO's URL	ORG
Enumerates	LISTS
Extend a lease	RENEW
Exxon's ex-name	ESSO
First Daughter of the 2010s	SASHA
Former fast flier	CONCORDE
Garfield's middle name	ABRAM
German winged one	ENGEL
Get __ of (obtain)	AHOLD
Good cholesterol	HDL
Guy's dressy accessory	TIEPIN
Hair braids	PLAITS
Harper Lee's home	ALABAMA
Have some water	HYDRATE
Historian __ Kearns Goodwin	DORIS
Holey utensil	SIEVE
HS auxiliary	PTA
Immunity agents	TCELLS
Infuriation	IRE
It means ''made of''	INE
Joan of marathon fame	BENOIT
Khruschchev colleague	CASTRO
Larcenous one	THIEF
Latin jazz	SALSA
Leave stranded	MAROON
Letters on toothpaste tubes	ADA
Lowered oneself	KNELT
Lyrical filler	TRALALA
Main idea	THEME
Major outcry	STINK
Mandate	ORDER
Mariah of music	CAREY
Mental perception	KEN
Metal that's ''precioso''	ORO
Mother Teresa, by birth	ALBANIAN
Navajo neighbors	HOPIS
No longer pristine	TAINTED
One on the force	COP
Overly glib	PAT
Pays (up)	ANTES
Persian speaker	IRANI
PFC superiors	NCOS
Picnic refreshments	SODAPOPS
Plank defect	WARP
Poet's preposition	ERE
Polo participant	HORSE
Precincts	AREAS
President pro __	TEM
Quaint complaint	WOEISME
Ready-made lawn	SOD
Rewards for running	MEDALS
Sacha Baron Cohen persona	BORAT
Screen of old ATMs	CRT
Seaman's superior: Abbr	ENS
Second to __ (the best)	NONE
Shakes severely	ROCKS
Sheltered water	BAY
Sign of summer	LEO
Sign of winter	FROST
Skater's gig	ICESHOW
Slow movers	SNAILS
Small crown	TIARA
Soccer fan's cheer	OLE
Sounds content	AAHS
Spanish aunt	TIA
Speedway acronym	NASCAR
Spending limit	CAP
Stagger	LURCH
Statutes	LAWS
Steakhouse serving	TBONE
Straight and tall	ERECT
Sub for a band	SITIN
Subordinate staff	AIDES
Sushi fish	EEL
Systematic study	SCIENCE
Take a vow	SWEAR
Tennis great Andre	AGASSI
Thick carpeting	SHAG
This: Sp	ESTO
Timetable stats	ETAS
TiVo ancestor	VCR
Tragic eloper	ROMEO
Train of thought	TENOR
Triangular peninsula	SINAI
Twisting force	TORSION
USA alliance	NATO
Use credit	OWE
Vena __ (major vessel)	CAVA
View from Nice	MER
Wasteful	PRODIGAL
What holds 16 Down in cans	ALUMINUM
When many get paid	FRIDAYS
Withdraw, with ''out''	OPT
Writer Quindlen	ANNA
__ Lanka	SRI