News Day Crossword Answers September 24 2017

Clue	Solution
Pet advocacy org.	ASPCA
False witness	LIAR
School support grps.	PTAS
Job opening	SLOT
Reef material	CORAL
Light brown	ECRU
Tomato variety	ROMA
Travel agent offering	TOUR
Flake weather news	TWOFEETOFSNOWEXPECTED
Here right now	INPERSON
Brawny bunch	HEMEN
Brought up	REARED
Royal flush card	TEN
Aleve alternative	ADVIL
Very unlucky	HAPLESS
Ray of light	SHAFT
Gets nosy	PRIES
”Venerable” English saint	BEDE
Flake supermarket news	KELLOGGSCEREALSONSALE
Far from certain	IFFY
Acting before thinking	RASH
A third of ”seis”	DOS
Gauged, with ”up”	SIZED
Online rating symbol	STAR
Take __ at (attempt)	ASTAB
Namely	TOWIT
Antlered deer	STAG
Not the usual thing	ODD
Nastase of tennis	ILIE
Rowboat equipment	OARS
Holiday precursor	EVE
Flake medical news	DANDRUFFCUREANNOUNCED
French monarch	ROI
Draped dress	SARI
Angry outburst	RANT
Eggs: Lat.	OVA
”__ put it another way . . .”	ORTO
Markings on some ziti	LINES
Make into firewood	SAWUP
Prankster’s expression	GRIN
Four Holy Roman emperors	OTTOS
Wonder Woman portrayer Gadot	GAL
Sorbet flavor	LIME
Top-drawer	AONE
Flake art news	PAINTFALLINGONARENOIR
Feasts on	EATS
Of Thor, Odin, etc.	NORSE
State-run game	LOTTO
Cleaver	MEATAXE
Napping spots, perhaps	SOFAS
Flavor enhancer letters	MSG
Refer casually (to)	ALLUDE
Screen legend Sophia	LOREN
Threshold	DOORSTEP
Flake political news (Arizona, November 2012)	JEFFISHEADEDFORSENATE
Refer to	CITE
One of some rolls of 50	DIME
Vote seekers	POLS
Poultry purchase	CAPON
Thomas Hardy heroine	TESS
Hideout	LAIR
Wheel rod	AXLE
Gives access to	OPENS
Curtain raiser	ACTI
Planted seeds	SOWN
Bolster	PROP
Casual restaurant	CAFE
Not in the dark about	ALERTTO
Acknowledge	LETON
Revered one	ICON
Sound of a bark	ARF
Novelist Salman	RUSHDIE
Great potential	PROMISE
Gym handout	TOWEL
Solemn assent	AMEN
Jazz instrument	SAX
Becomes harder to climb	STEEPENS
From the neighborhood	LOCAL
Far out	OUTRE
Golf hazards	TREES
Lingo suffix	ESE
Emphatic refusal	NEVER
Madrid museum	PRADO
Tooth pro’s deg.	DDS
Dictionary designation	ARCHAIC
American Revolution mercenary	HESSIAN
Downhill gear	SKIS
Great weight	HEFT
__ Romeo (Italian auto)	ALFA
Fishing gear	FLYROD
Furtive summons	PSST
Try to cool, perhaps	BLOWON
Little by little	GRADUAL
What some grills run on	GAS
Ruckus	ADO
Family nickname	SIS
Montezuma subject	AZTEC
Permission to go	LEAVE
Narrowly defeated	EDGED
Fuzzy images	BLURS
Freezing temperatures	TEENS
Interstate patroller	TROOPER
Many profs.	DRS
S&L offering	IRA
Station wagon descendant	SUV
Get tired	DROOP
Cardiology concern	AORTA
Capone associate	NITTI
Old Ironsides, e.g.	FRIGATE
End-of-term rituals	FINALS
Baffled	ATALOSS
Japanese Winter Olympics city	NAGANO
Ending for ball	OON
Half-rectangle shape	ELL
Dark red	WINE
Thurman of film	UMA
Underlying cause	ROOT
Still competing	INIT
First-century despot	NERO
Stabilizes	STEADIES
Phoned documents	FAXES
Properly presented	INORDER
Free of charge	NOFEE
Family nickname	GRANDPA
25 Down VIP	ELGRECO
USAF officer	MAJ
Choose at the polls	ELECT
Role for Caine or Law	ALFIE
Boston-area university	TUFTS
”Likewise”	SOAMI
Telegraphy pioneer	MORSE
Bit of telegraphy	SOS
”Star Wars” royalty	LEIA
Dressable toy	DOLL
Easy chore	SNAP
Register-receipt roll	TAPE
School on the Thames	ETON
Ranch enclosures	PENS
”Good” cholesterol	HDL
”The Simpsons” airer	FOX