Newsday.com - January 12 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 12 2018 

Clues	Answers
''I'm amazed!''	OOH
''I'm amazed!'' emotion	AWE
''Mad Men'' staffers	STENOS
''The mother of all living''	EVE
A close watch	TABS
Academic challenge	EXAM
Academic challenge	TEST
Accountant's expertise	TAXEXEMPTIONS
Agency with Goodwill Ambassadors	UNESCO
Argentine ''I am''	ESTOY
Arrive or outperform	SHOWUP
Aspiration	DESIRE
Balance owed	DEBT
Battery knob	ANODE
Began to fray	WORE
Black-clad dueler of fiction	ZORRO
Cast on tour	TROUPERS
Celebrity Roast attire	TUX
Choice for charging	AMEX
Country/western dance	TWOSTEP
Cyclopean	ONEEYED
Embodiment	TEXTBOOKEXAMPLE
ESPN media partner	NBA
ESPN media partner	NCAA
Flaw in logic	HOLE
For laughs	INJEST
Freight carrier	BOXCAR
French Indochina neighbor	SIAM
Head-turning whisper	PSST
Hireling	PEON
In balance	EVEN
Involve in unpleasantness	ENMESH
It may be pitched in a field	TENT
It's fixed by astronomers	GAZE
King mentioned by Ovid	MIDAS
Laments	RUES
Land of shillelaghs	ERIN
Make more perfect	HONE
Mel of mellow melodies	TORME
Metaphor for fog	SOUP
No longer squeaking, perhaps	LUBED
Olympic weaponry	EPEES
On point	GERMANE
One of Frodo's friends	SAM
Onto the beach	ASHORE
Outperform	TOP
Pass over	OMIT
PC crisis key	ESC
Petty clash	SPAT
Pita's Indian cousin	NAAN
Pizzeria fare	CALZONES
Plenty of nothing	NADA
Polishes off	EATS
Prefix for color	TRI
Put a cork in it	JUG
Regional aviation fleet	AIRTAXIS
Remove, as a splinter	TWEEZE
Restorative ritual	NAP
Revise reportage	EDIT
Robin Hood refreshment	ALE
Roving adventurously	ERRANT
Scandinavian shoe brand	ECCO
Ski slope conveyance	TOW
Skillet cousin	WOK
Small-scale thing	MINI
Soonest	NEXT
St. Pete summer setting	EDT
Start of something	ESS
Trawler gear	NETS
Undeveloped	LATENT
Unionize, in a way	WED
US expansion of 1845	TEXASANNEXATION
Warm gestures	HUGS
Way, way out	OUTRE
What to call a catamaran	SHE
Where Tutu was Archbishop	CAPETOWN
Widely scattered	SPARSE
Winged symbol of grace	SWAN