Newsday.com - January 21 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 21 2018 

Clues	Answers
''A mouse!''	EEK
''Criminal Minds'' airer	CBS
''Golden'' period	AGE
''It's a Wonderful Life'' director	CAPRA
''Pull up a chair''	SIT
''That's awful!''	UGH
''You bet!''	YES
A/C measure	BTU
Annoying ones	PESTS
Apple pie order	ALAMODE
Artful deception	SMOKEANDMIRRORS
Austrian peak	ALP
Ballerina's bend	PLIE
Banquet hall vessels	URNS
Be under the weather	AIL
Before now	AGO
Brings back to mind	RECOLLECTS
Cabbage concoction	SLAW
Canvas holder	EASEL
Cardiology concern	AORTA
Carry a balance	OWE
Carved pole	TOTEM
Casino supply	CARDS
CD forerunners	LPS
Coil of yarn	SKEIN
Come into view	EMERGE
Comparative suffix	IER
Cornhusker city	OMAHA
County Kerry's isle	EIRE
Criticize severely	CALLONTHECARPET
Desert stopover	OASIS
Director Brooks	MEL
Distinctive quality	TRAIT
Does overly creative accounting	COOKSTHEBOOKS
Dull noise	THUD
Dutch artist	BOSCH
Elevates	UPS
EMT skill	CPR
Evergreen tree	YEW
Fashion sense	STYLE
Fiji's capital	SUVA
Fizzy mixer	SODA
Flood barrier	LEVEE
Floral garland	LEI
Flout the rules	CHEAT
Fortune-teller's deck	TAROT
Fröbe who portrayed Goldfinger	GERT
Game-show VIPs	ANNOUNCERS
Gas pedal	THROTTLE
Genesis setting	EDEN
Golf pencil's traditional lack	ERASER
Gossip column topic	CELEB
Gown fabric	SATIN
Grass grown on farms	SOD
Gruff	HARSH
Guitarist Clapton	ERIC
Had been	WERE
Hägar the Horrible's dog	SNERT
Hawkeye Pierce portrayer	ALDA
Heart chart, for short	ECG
Himalayan region	TIBET
Imitate	MIMIC
iPod model	NANO
Kind of corp. takeover	LBO
Lariat loops	NOOSES
Legal wrong	TORT
Let go for a while	LEND
Link with	TIETO
Literary twist	IRONY
Long-legged wader	EGRET
Loud sound	BLARE
Managers of body rhythms	BIOLOGICALCLOCKS
Marsh plant	CATTAIL
Metaphor for strength	IRON
MGM rival of the '30s	RKO
Mideast leaders	EMIRS
Miscalculate	ERR
Money in Malta	EURO
Most high-tech	STATEOFTHEART
Muscle-car model of yore	GTO
Neckline shape	VEE
Nonprescription: Abbr	OTC
Novelist Tolstoy	LEO
Numerical proportion	RATIO
O.K. Corral good guy	EARP
Old Testament prophet	HOSEA
Old-time anesthetic	ETHER
Ongoing charitable pledge	TITHE
Online shopping center	EMALL
Oscar actress Garson	GREER
Parisian pal	AMI
Part of pewter	TIN
Parting word	BYE
Pay attention to	MIND
Perform a part	ACT
Plumlike fruit	SLOE
Poisonous snake	VIPER
Prefix for port or pad	HELI
Private pupil	TUTEE
Produce, as a play	STAGE
Put a cap on	LIMIT
Quick bite	NOSH
Quotation compiler	BARTLETT
Register's paper roll	TAPE
Rock layers	STRATA
Roofing sealant	TAR
Rope securers	KNOTS
Santa __, CA	CLARA
Scent	ODOR
Seagoing: Abbr	NAUT
Settle a debt	REPAY
Ships off	SENDS
Simple fastener	LATCH
Smartphone message	TEXT
Snaky swimmers	EELS
Solidify	GEL
Speedy	RAPID
Spiced tea of India	CHAI
Sports complex	ARENA
Square-corner shape	ELL
Starting players	ATEAM
Starting words, for short	INTRO
Steel mills and oil refineries	PROCESSINGPLANTS
Stop talking, with ''up''	CLAM
Storied servant/spirit	GENIE
Stove-top vessel	PAN
Stove-top vessel	POT
Suffix with cyclo-	TRON
Surpass in smarts	OUTWIT
SWAT squad equipment	RIOTGEAR
Symbol for an app	ICON
T-shirt size: Abbr	LGE
Take a sip	DRINK
Take up or let out	ALTER
Tennis shutout	LOVEGAME
Thai or Tibetan	ASIAN
They're all true	FACTS
Treasure hoard	TROVE
Tuscan ''You're welcome''	PREGO
TV evening news time	SIX
Unemotional one	STOIC
Virtuoso	ACE
Walking tall	ERECT
Where copters hover	MIDAIR
Wields a needle	SEWS
Windy weather toy	KITE
Young fellow	LAD
Zodiac beast	BULL