Newsday.com – Mar 2 2020 Crossword Solution
Newsday.com – Mar 2 2020 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ”Attendee” suffix for movie | GOER |
| ”Fool’s Day” mo | APR |
| ”How clumsy of me!” | OOPS |
| Act as a guide | LEAD |
| Adam and Eve’s paradise | EDEN |
| Attention-getting typeface | BOLD |
| Birthday cake’s horizontal part | LAYER |
| Brief snooze | NAP |
| Coin in Spain or Italy | EURO |
| Distance below the surface | DEPTH |
| Doctor’s ”Open wide” request | SAYAH |
| Double-curve letter | ESS |
| Either baseball game squad | TEAM |
| Exams | TESTS |
| Exploded, as a bubble | POPPED |
| Fairy tale villain | OGRE |
| Finds a purpose for | USES |
| Florida city near St. Pete | TAMPA |
| From square one | ANEW |
| Good-natured parody | SPOOF |
| Grouchy one | GRUMP |
| Hawaiian dances | HULAS |
| How take-out orders are placed | TOGO |
| Ill-at-__ (nervous) | EASE |
| Investigate in detail | DELVE |
| Isn’t able to | CANT |
| Lagoon’s coral barrier | REEF |
| Latch __ (grasp) | ONTO |
| Local sandwich shop | DELI |
| Low in fat, as meat | LEAN |
| Make a sound of shock | GASP |
| Marching-band instrument hit with small mallets | XYLOPHONE |
| Metal calypso instrument | STEELDRUM |
| Mtn.’s elevation | HGT |
| Mysterious glows | AURAS |
| Network with an eye logo | CBS |
| Nimble-fingered | DEFT |
| Noisy | LOUD |
| Offended the nose | STANK |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Oil-drilling structure | RIG |
| Old Testament song | PSALM |
| Opposite aspects of an issue | SIDES |
| Optimistic feelings | HOPES |
| Orchestra section for 19 Across, plus 8 and 34 Down | PERCUSSION |
| Oven countdown device | TIMER |
| Overly skinny | BONY |
| Payment to a landlord | RENT |
| Plunge suddenly, as a hawk | SWOOP |
| Political thinker Marx | KARL |
| Prefix for freeze | ANTI |
| Prescriptions, for short | MEDS |
| Pretend to be | POSEAS |
| Purple jelly flavor | GRAPE |
| Rooster or bull | MALE |
| Sandwich cookie brand | OREO |
| Session in the tub | BATH |
| Shaken instrument that jingles | TAMBOURINE |
| Stallone’s commando character | RAMBO |
| Take a snooze | SLEEP |
| Taunter’s challenge | DARE |
| Text message ”Very funny” | LOL |
| Title for some wives | MRS |
| Try to persuade | COAX |
| Typical pious person of India | HINDU |
| Unexpected benefit | BOON |
| Untidy person | SLOB |
| Urgent request | PLEA |
| Utensil for oatmeal | SPOON |
| Vicinity | AREA |
| Walk wearily | PLOD |
| Well-padded, as a turkey | PLUMP |
| Went very fast | SPED |
| When trains are due: Abbr | ETAS |
| Witch’s hex | SPELL |
| __ apart (rip up) | TEAR |
| __ of measure (miles and hours) | UNITS |
| __ so (nevertheless) | EVEN |
| __-in-the-blank | FILL |