NetWord Crossword Answers October 19, 2023
Author: by Fred Piscop
Across
| “Low-cost” prefix | ECONO |
| Island near Sumatra | JAVA |
| What a beret doesn’t have | BRIM |
| Grow dark | LATEN |
| Times given names | ERAS |
| Lower-cal | LITE |
| Thorny brush | BRIARPATCH |
| Samsung Galaxy alternative | IPAD |
| Doesn’t participate | ABSTAINS |
| Shipping shortcuts | CANALS |
| Royal Navy designation | HMS |
| Glassmaking material | SAND |
| Informal naval designation | SHE |
| Final cross words | PARTINGSHOT |
| Reason for sneezin’ | COLDS |
| Measures of energy | ERGS |
| Corleones’ creator | PUZO |
| At an end | OVER |
| Most Marines | MEN |
| Land on the Persian Gulf | OMAN |
| Filmmaker Dunham | LENA |
| Reasonable | SANE |
| Vermont ski resort | STOWE |
| Move with a mouse | DRAGANDDROP |
| ’90s “Nifty!” | RAD |
| Orchestral instrument | OBOE |
| Cal Tech rival | MIT |
| Never seen before | ALLNEW |
| Headliners | MAINACTS |
| Piece of a branch or book | LEAF |
| What a Babylonian wrote on | CLAYTABLET |
| Well accessory | PAIL |
| Suffix for very large numbers | AIRE |
| Barton of nursing history | CLARA |
| Energetic | SPRY |
| Toucans and turtles | PETS |
| Too dramatic | HAMMY |
Down
| Isle near Corsica | ELBA |
| Bit of starch | CARB |
| Escalator maker | OTIS |
| Poetic preposition | NEATH |
| Limited-access entrances | ONRAMPS |
| Author Auel | JEAN |
| Cultural doings | ARTS |
| Maintenance machine | VAC |
| Containers at curbsides | ASHCANS |
| Visual obstruction | BLINDSPOT |
| Morning host for 20+ years | RIPA |
| Emphatic type, for short | ITAL |
| Last-word theme of the puzzle | MEDS |
| Galileo’s hometown | PISA |
| Director Lee | ANG |
| What collectors call Hancock or Franklin | SIGNER |
| Take to task | SCOLD |
| Float in the air | HOVER |
| Cohort of Ketanji | ELENA |
| Transformed | REMADE |
| Hot style | TREND |
| Bookstore category | HUMOR |
| Japanese-born conductor | OZAWA |
| In great shape | TONED |
| Insect known to 26 Down | DRAGONFLY |
| Mountain topper | SNOWCAP |
| Veggie omelet ingredient | SPINACH |
| Bart Simpson’s grandpa | ABE |
| Choose not to list | OMIT |
| Drum of India | TABLA |
| High points of numerous Winter Olympics | ALPS |
| Spring through the air | LEAP |
| Secret retreat | LAIR |
| Place to shop | MART |
| Those in favor | AYES |
| Paella morsel | CLAM |
| Contract detail | TERM |
| Don’t dash off | STAY |
| Oral fabrication | LIE |