Newsday.com - Mar 18 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
''Beauty and the Beast'' girl	BELLE
''Game of Thrones'' patriarch	NED
''It wasn't me,'' e.g	DENIAL
''O Canada,'' for one	ANTHEM
''Odyssey'' byline	HOMER
''Patience __ virtue''	ISA
20 Down provisionally	BASTE
Accurately pitched	TUNED
Alpine song	YODEL
Annual Stockholm presentations	NOBELS
Army training academy: Abbr	OCS
Asylum seeker	EMIGRE
Atticus Finch creator	LEE
Barcelona bulls	TOROS
Beach toy	KITE
Belittle	ABASE
Big galoot	OAF
Bingeing on ''Simpsons'' episodes	ROLLINGINDOH
Blog entry	POST
Branch of Islam	SHIA
Brief script excerpt	LINE
Bring to mind	RECALL
Campfire-created confection	SMORE
Cannes confidante	AMIE
Cash holders	WALLETS
Casual shirt	POLO
Causing wear	EROSIVE
Celestial bodies	COMETS
Celestial body	ORB
Certain sultanate's subject	OMANI
Chasing away flies while jogging	RUNNINGSHOO
Close call you got yourself into	THECHOSENPHEW
Coal derivatives	TARS
Completion	END
Confederate soldiers	REBS
Contained	HAD
Cookie containers	TINS
Courtroom ritual	OATH
Deduce	INFER
Did the catering for	FED
Director Anderson	WES
Doing battle	ATWAR
Dollywood proprietor	PARTON
Dolphins quarterback great	MARINO
Drive-__	THRU
Due (to)	OWING
E-file org	IRS
Early afternoon	TWO
Early tourney round	PRELIM
Emulating	ALA
Energizes, with ''up''	PEPS
Fills fully	SATES
First-class	ACE
Florence's river	ARNO
From around here	LOCAL
Front tip of a ship	PROW
Giggling sound	TEHEE
Gives off	EMITS
Has possession of	OWNS
Homes of twigs	NESTS
How piano virtuosos play	INTHEKEYOFGEE
Island east of South Carolina	BERMUDA
Justice Kagan	ELENA
Kanye West's music	RAP
Keaton of ''Annie Hall''	DIANE
Late morning	ELEVEN
Latest info	NEWS
Layered, as plywood	LAMINAR
Leave speechless	AWE
Legal prefix	PARA
Little fella	LAD
Md. neighbor	WVA
Morse code sound	DAH
Mt. Rushmore locale	SDAK
Much of North Africa	SAHARA
Muscular	BRAWNY
New Haven collegian	ELI
Occupies, as a table	SITSAT
Oldest cabinet department	STATE
Outback bird	EMU
Overemphasized	DWELTON
Part of NCO	NON
Paycheck amount	NET
Pirate's plunder	LOOT
Play opener	ACTI
Poetic preposition	OER, ERE, NEATH, EVE
Prepares	GETSSET
Prince in ''Aladdin''	ALI
Psychic ability	ESP
Put chips on	BET
Queen's reaction to the London Eye	THEROYALWHEE
Rainy and icy	SLEETY
Rectangle quartet	CORNERS
Regatta craft	SLOOP
Requests humbly	BEGSFOR
Residences	ABODES
RR stop	STA
Rule, for short	REG
Russian range	URALS
S&L amenity	ATM
San __, Italy	REMO
Scouts' shelters	TENTS
Send __ (pay from one's bank electronically)	AWIRE
Set lofty goals	ASPIRE
Ship of 1492	PINTA
Shopper stopper	SALE
Shrill bark	YAP
Sir, in Sonora	SENOR
Skyscraping	TALL
Slingshot shape	WYE
Some Japanese-Americans	NISEI
Something used on the range	TEAPOT
Soup seasoning	HERB
Sources of salt	MINES
Starter for space	AERO
State one's views	OPINE
Stick together	BOND
Stitch up	SEW
Strike down	SMITE
Stylish	TONY
Sucrose source	BEET
Surpass	TOP
SWAT team operation	RAID
Take-charge type	DOER
Tampa NFLer	BUC
Tesla head Musk	ELON
Ticket portions	STUBS
Town near Santa Fe	TAOS
Turned, as soil	TILLED
Urban renewal target	EYESORE
Vague discomfort	MALAISE
What ''-vore'' means	EATER
What Brits call beans in veggie burgers	SOYA
What's heard upon exiting a musical in Fairbanks	HAMILTONBRR
Whom Fallon succeeded	LENO
Widen, as pupils	DILATE
Window attachment	DECAL
Witness	SEE
Young socialite	DEB
Zane Grey stories	TALESOFWHOA
__ band (solo act)	ONEMAN
__ di Pisa (Italian landmark)	TORRE
__ Rupert Murdoch	KEITH