Newsday.com - Mar 29 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - Mar 29 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Go ahead, __ you!'' (verbal challenge)	IDARE
''Let me in!''	OPENUP
''Now I remember!''	OHYES
''Stainless'' metal	STEEL
Ancient	OLD
Attempt	TRY
Baton-passing race	RELAY
Beer barrel	KEG
Brief moment	TRICE
Circumference	GIRTH
Coin in France	EURO
Colorful part of eyes	IRIS
Copy machine powder	TONER
CPR expert	EMT
Dash or marathon	RACE
Detested	ABHORRED
Difficult experience	ORDEAL
Disinterested	ALOOF
Dole out	ALLOT
Eccentric	ODD
Enters	GOESIN
Enthusiastic	AVID
Feeling of fury	ANGER
Figure of speech	IDIOM
Fitzgerald of jazz	ELLA
Folded Tex-Mex fare	TACO
Forget-__ (flower)	MENOT
Freight train riders	HOBOS
French-speaking Caribbean country	HAITI
Full of nerve	GUTSY
Fuss in front of a mirror	PREEN
Get off a chair	STAND
Happen next	ENSUE
Have a chat	TALK
High cards in poker	ACES
Infamous Roman emperor	NERO
Initial poker payment	ANTE
Licorice-like flavor	ANISE
Light from a laser	BEAM
Lighten, as a burden	EASE
Linger	TARRY
Lose one's footing	SLIP
Making an angry exit	SLAMMINGTHEDOOR
Massachusetts' Cape __	COD
Mattress holders	BEDS
Neither here __ there	NOR
Netlike fabric	MESH
Not as much	LESS
Oinking animal	PIG
One of a table's four	LEG
Opening a champagne bottle	POPPINGTHECORK
Opera solo	ARIA
Parade vehicle	FLOAT
Part of a barbecued ''rack''	RIB
Periodical publication, for short	MAG
Playing a bongo	BANGINGTHEDRUM
Puts to work	USES
Rant and __ (show anger)	RAVE
Regulation	RULE
Ripped apart	TORE
Rolled-up sandwich	WRAP
Rowboat implement	OAR
Self-storage rental	UNIT
Sentimental person	SOFTY
Sentry's ''Stop!''	HALT
Slugger's dry spell	SLUMP
Smooth-talking	GLIB
Throws a party	HOSTS
Time-consuming	LONG
Timid nature	MEEKNESS
Toward the sunset	WEST
Untidy spot	MESS
Unwanted breeze	DRAFT
Very close	NEAR
Vessel to brew pekoe	TEAPOT
With no decoration	BARE
Your and my	OUR
__ Beta Kappa	PHI