Newsday.com Mar 8 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com - March 8 2020 - Answers

Clues	Answers
''Fiddler on the Roof'' dance	HORA
''Gotcha''	ISEE
''Ivanhoe'' author	SCOTT
''Mamma __!''	MIA
''To a . . .'' poem	ODE
'70s war zone	NAM
45th state	UTAH
68 Across fare	PANCAKES
A Defense Department URL suffix	MIL
Abounds (with)	TEEMS
Allege	CLAIM
Alternative to cue cards	TELEPROMPTER
Angry emotion	RAGE
Annapolis newcomers	PLEBES
Answer a want ad	APPLY
Apples or oranges	NOUN
Aristocratic group	ELITE
Asked urgently	PLED
Assayers' samples	ORES
Bar bill	TAB
Barkeep	TAVERNER
Bergman's ''Casablanca'' role	LUND
Best pal	BUD
Big name in western fiction	ZANE
Brought under control	TAMED
Burn lightly	CHAR
Business card info	COMPANYNAME
Cast off	SHED
CBS forensic franchise	CSI
Charlatan	FAKER
Church topper	SPIRE
City near Windsor	DETROIT
Convertible, with the top down	OPENCAR
Cultivated	BRED
Currier's partner	IVES
Deductive reasoning	LOGIC
Deep gorge	CHASM
Deposits of 50 Across	LODES
Dickensian clerk	URIAH
Director Ethan or Joel	COEN
Eiffel Tower neighbor	SEINE
Exchange quips	SPAR
Executive Dept. fiscal agency	OMB
False story	LIE
Falstaff-like	OBESE
Fast-spreading, on the Web	VIRAL
Fathered, as a foal	SIRED
Financial paper, initially	WSJ
Fine-tune	HONE
Firecracker feature	FUSE
Flashcards subject	ARITHMETIC
Food wrap brand	SARAN
Fortify again	REARM
Frames of mind	MOODS
Friends of the French	AMIS
Genealogical diagram	TREE
Get the ball rolling	BEGIN
Goof up	ERR
Heavy load	ONUS
Henry Ford's son	EDSEL
Heroic acts	DEEDS
Hides from view	COVERS
High school gala	PROM
Hired help	AIDE
Holey utensil	STRAINER
Home to most people	ASIA
House of Henry VIII	TUDOR
Hr. fraction	MIN
Hungry as a bear	FAMISHED
In a heap	PILED
In bundles, as cotton	BALED
In pieces	APART
Interest figure	RATE
Israeli currency	SHEKEL
Italian auto	FIAT
Kept cool in a bucket	ICED
Kindergarten cry for attention	MEME
Kiosks	STALLS
Listing on a place card	DINNERGUEST
Luau greeting	ALOHA
Made a raid	FORAYED
Mocks	JEERS
Modern music	RAP
Mud bath sites	SPAS
New face at a firm	HIREE
NL West team	ARI
No longer obsessed by	OVER
Nonspecific person	ONE
Not snowed by	ONTO
Not worth arguing about	MOOT
Nun's superior	ABBESS
Oddly scary	EERIE
Old Testament monarchy	SHEBA
One filling out a timecard	HOURLYWORKER
One in the lead	STAR
Packs (down)	TAMPS
Person staring	OGLER
Picture postcard sender	VACATIONER
Pie maker's tools	CORERS
Piece of fencing	RAIL
Place for a SIM card	SMARTPHONE
Plant with fronds	FERN
Port of Normandy	CAEN
Programmer's writings	CODE
Prone to bungling	INEPT
Purpose for tarot cards	DIVINATION
Put a cap on	LIMIT
React to the cold	SHIVER
Reduce to rubble	RUIN
Remove wool from	SHEAR
Repetitive practice	DRILL
Reunion attendee	ALUM
Rigatoni relative	ZITI
Road irregularities	BUMPS
Rooms with bookshelves, often	DENS
Sales agent, for short	REP
Sch. near Providence	URI
School on the Thames	ETON
Second glove	MATE
Slender swimmer	EEL
Slinky, essentially	COIL
Son of Seth	ENOS
Spanish cheer	OLE
Sphere of study	AREA
Sprinter's assignment	LANE
Stack-serving chain	IHOP
Starter like ante-	PRE
Steamed Mexican munchie	TAMALE
Stiff wind	GALE
Summon via intercom	PAGE
Sunflower product	OIL
Tenor's performance	ARIA
The way of the world?	ORBIT
Thought-provoking	MEATY
Timeworn	STALE
Top of the head	PATE
Travel aimlessly	ROAM
Treat once packaged with baseball cards	BUBBLEGUM
UFO crew	ETS
Villainous visages	SNEERS
Waste time	DALLY
Weightlifting maneuver	PRESS
What a keycard gains access to	HOTELROOM
What follows ''aka''	ALIAS
With husks removed	SHELLED
WWII Russian leader	STALIN