Newsday.com - April 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Apr 16 2018 

Clues	Answers
''Here's to you!'', for one	TOAST
''Hey, you!''	PSST
''That's too bad''	ALAS
A Great Lake	ERIE
A smaller number	FEWER
Adolescent	TEEN
Ancient fable teller	AESOP
And others: Abbr	ETAL
Arm joints	ELBOWS
Ask formally to appear	SUMMON
Baby's bed	CRIB
Back talk	SASS
Beef or pork	MEAT
Brother of Cain	ABEL
Buy stocks or bonds	INVEST
Buyer-protection agency	CONSUMERAFFAIRS
Cake decorator	ICER
Carpet fastener	TACK
Catch sight of	SPOT
Chop finely	MINCE
Church sale	BAZAAR
Commonplace	USUAL
Competes in a marathon	RUNS
Confront boldly	FACE
Convent dwellers	NUNS
Costumes' head coverings	MASKS
Cowboy show	RODEO
Creative thought	IDEA
Diamond weight measure	CARAT
Driver of flying reindeer	SANTA
Emphatic typeface: Abbr	ITAL
Fedora or beret	HAT
Fender mishap	DENT
Flower stalk	STEM
Forms of a verb	TENSES
Go up a mountain	CLIMB
Grown-up boys	MEN
Highways: Abbr	RTES
Holder for eyeglasses	CASE
In addition	ALSO
Informal ''I understand''	GOTCHA
Informal language	SLANG
Invalidate	UNDO
Japan's continent	ASIA
Locale	SITE
Major happening	EVENT
Make simpler	EASE
Metallic rocks	ORES
Metered vehicle	TAXI
More or __ (approximately)	LESS
Most prudent	WISEST
No-no	TABOO
Not doing anything	IDLE
Not fooled by	ONTO
Outlandishly comical	ZANY
Paper Mate's pen rivals	BICS
Perched on	ATOP
Piece of lettuce	LEAF
Portions of corn	EARS
Pub drinks	ALES
Red vegetables	BEETS
Roster	LIST
Shorthand expert, for short	STENO
Sign up for something	ENROLL
Singing groups without sopranos or altos	MALECHOIRS
Spouse's mom or dad	INLAW
Sultan's group of wives	HAREM
Take a crack __ (try)	ATIT
Thaws	MELTS
The __ Ranger (Western hero)	LONE
Turn out to be	ENDUP
Underway, to Sherlock	AFOOT
Volcano outflow	LAVA
Watch secretly	SPYON
Water-supply storage areas	RESERVOIRS
Word-of-mouth	ORAL
Yoked animals	OXEN
__ of the above (something else)	NONE