News Day Crossword Puzzle Answers December 1 2017

Clue	Solution
__ a (no)	NARY
"Silas Marner" novelist	ELIOT
Airport near Rainier	SEATAC
Allotment	DOLE
Arms of a starfish	RAYS
Author of 16/53 Across	ROBERTFROST
Beginning stage	EMBRYO
Big mo. for "Messiah"	DEC
Big sellers in bear markets	TEDDIES
Birth-named, on society pages	NEE
Bylaw, briefly	REG
Car category	SEDAN
Causing corrosion	EROSIVE
Cherbourg’s region	MANCHE
Chrysler autos of yore	DESOTOS
College student’s SAT	GRE
Compass pt.	NNW
Corn concoctions	FRITTERS
Creepy Cruise character	LESTAT
Danish port	ODENSE
Dept. at the Citadel	ROTC
Extremely dry	ARID
Films with stagecoaches	OATERS
Get a cast credit for	ACTIN
Gone over, as a span	CROSSED
Gourd family fruit	MELON
Grocery clerk’s machine	LABELER
Highly charged	TENSE
In full flower	ABLOOM
Jazz trumpeter Sandoval	ARTURO
Kennel club category	BREED
Long for	COVET
Lugged	TOTED
Middle of the second century	CLI
Mild rebuke	TUT
Mishandle a ground ball	BOOTIT
Name on the cover of "A Moveable Feast"	ERNEST
Name related to Nellie	ELEANOR
Nine-symbol message	SOS
Over first	SHORTEST
Parliamentary procedure	DEBATE
Patron of Rome	STPETER
Persistent critic	NAGGER
Photo descriptor	GLOSSY
PR preparation	RELEASE
Prefix for tourism	ECO
Ready to play again	RESTED
Restaurant review site	YELP
Roundup gear	LARIAT
Science of seniors	GERONTOLOGY
See 16 Across	ONASNOWYEVENING
Skirmish	SETTO
Slimming procedure, for short	LIPO
Smidge	TAD
Spoke proudly	CROWED
Squeaking bone, e.g.	DOGTOY
Toddler’s word	DADA
Travel business	RENTACAR
Two-tone treats	OREOS
Un- or in-	NOT
Uncommon sense	ESP
Vitamin std.	RDA
Voice of the critic in "Ratatouille"	OTOOLE
Water source near Lake Geneva	EVIAN
Whisper endearments	COO
With 53 Across, "miles to go" poem	STOPPINGBYWOODS
Yard-sale ad info	RAINDATE
Yellowish-red	SANDY