Newsday.com - Feb 2 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Newsday.com - Feb 2 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
''A likely story!''	IBET
''Aida'' composer	GIUSEPPEVERDI
''Feliz Navidad'' singer/guitarist	JOSEFELICIANO
''__ Adventures in Wonderland''	ALICES
Annoy	NETTLE
Apart from	EXCEPT
Baba of the Arabian Nights	ALI
Base-clearing hits	HOMERS
Baseball great Ripken	CAL
Bean in some soups	LIMA
Bind up, as grain	SHEAVE
Bit of gossip	RUMOR
Blender blade's sound	WHIR
Boomer's kid, for short	XER
Casual conversation	CHAT
Caulking material	PUTTY
Chimp or baboon	APE
Chocolate-substitute plants	CAROBS
Colored part of the eye	IRIS
Common practice	USAGE
Cooler for a cocktail	ICE
Cover with asphalt	PAVE
Eve's second son	ABEL
Explorer __ the Red	ERIC
Eye rudely	OGLE
Film excerpts	SCENES
Firefighters' tools	AXES
First cousin's father	UNCLE
Freight car rider	HOBO
Glee club voice	ALTO
Gore's running mate in 2000	JOSEPHLIEBERMAN
Gotten out of bed	RISEN
Harry Potter's bird	OWL
Higher than	OVER
Hill of sand	DUNE
Hoarse voice	RASP
Hopping pal of Pooh	ROO
Implement pulled by oxen	PLOW
Indoor sports venue	ARENA
Installed like tiles	INLAID
Keep from happening	AVERT
Knighted actor Michael	CAINE
Large brass instruments	TUBAS
Lasting mark	SCAR
Left, on a map	WEST
Letters after F	GHIJ
Letters on our stamps	USA
Marching band percussion	DRUM
Mysterious glow	AURA
Nickname for a pastor	REV
No-show at school	TRUANT
Not quite shut	AJAR
Novelist Morrison	TONI
Nuisance	PEST
One in school	PUPIL
Opinion piece	ESSAY
Periods in history	ERAS
Person from the Leaning Tower's city	PISAN
Prayer conclusion	AMEN
Prefix meaning ''modern''	NEO
Quick to learn	APT
Read digitally	SCAN
Relay racer's path	LANE
Ripped apart	TORE
River near Shakespeare's home	AVON
Rub harshly	CHAFE
Shaggy hair	MANE
Sound of scissors	SNIP
Spiritual advisor	GURU
Student of Socrates	PLATO
Superman foe Luthor	LEX
Take out a lease	RENT
Touch on the shoulder	TAP
Typical high schooler	TEEN
Unwitting victim	STOOGE
VIP's auto	LIMO
Wed on the run	ELOPE
Wide urban st	AVE