Newsday.com - Feb 5 2017 Crossword Answer

Newsday.com - Feb 5 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
''Auld Lang __''	SYNE
''Don't think so''	NOPE
''Night Moves'' singer	SEGER
''What's more . . .''	AND
''__ Sir or Madam . . .''	DEAR
2012 Affleck film	ARGO
Academic hurdles	EXAMS
Amazes	AWES
Annuls	REVOKES
Artist Neiman	LEROY
Asian cuisine	THAI
Author Shute	NEVIL
Baking potatoes	IDAHOS
Barbecue seasoning	RUB
Barbers' sharpeners	STROPS
Be in a bee	SPELL
Bicuspid, e.g	TOOTH
Bicyclist's challenge	HILL
Blue flowers of rhyme	VIOLETS
Born earlier	OLDER
Boy with many merit badges	EAGLESCOUT
Brief confession	IDID
Bumps against	ABUTSON
Burger turner	SPATULA
Calligraphy stroke	SERIF
Carrier for crude	OILER
Cheerless	SAD
Choose	OPTFOR
Classified, typically	SMALLAD
Clumsy ones	OAFS
Comics pooch	ODIE
Complain over	GROUSEABOUT
Concessionary cry	UNCLE
Construction site worker	CRANEOPERATOR
Country singer Lovett	LYLE
Deleted	ERASED
Discuss, with ''out''	HASH
Don't disturb	LETBE
Drink slowly	NURSE
Dry Italian wine	SOAVE
Earth-friendly prefix	ECO
Edison's middle name	ALVA
Elephants' org	GOP
Equipped for battle	ARMED
Eurasian range	URALS
Evil spell	HEX
Extended family	CLAN
Farewell performances	SWANSONGS
FedEx Cup organizer	PGATOUR
Fencing ploys	FEINTS
Fit in	BELONG
Garden center bagful	SOIL
Golf shop purchase	POLO
Gripped	HELD
Hair-raising	EERIE
Hard to come by	RARE
High-IQ club	MENSA
Highbrow type	SNOOT
Imperfection	FLAW
In a melancholy manner	GLUMLY
Jazz accompaniment	VAMP
Language that ''kayak'' came from	INUIT
Largest Caribbean island	CUBA
Launch site	PAD
Lightning attractor	ROD
Like second-quality mdse	IRR
Long-range weapon, for short	ICBM
Lunar features	CRATERS
Made up one's mind	DECIDED
Mail away	SEND
Martial-arts/fitness regimen	TAEBO
Meshed well	DOVETAILED
MetLife competitor	AETNA

Clues	Answers
Minimal money	CHICKENFEED
Miser's motivation	GREED
Most of a monocle	LENS
Myanmar neighbor	LAOS
Nautical nonsense	BILGE
Neural junction	SYNAPSE
Nonsense	TRIPE
Novelist Jong	ERICA
October birthstone	OPAL
Odometer reading	MILES
Of eyesight	OPTIC
Old West vehicles	BUGGIES
Op-ed piece	ESSAY
Out of bed	ARISEN
Pac-12 team	ASU
Pac-12 team	UCLA
PBS science series	NOVA
Porthole view	OCEAN
Postpone	PIGEONHOLE
Prayer wrap-up	AMEN
Prior night	EVE
Pub serving	ALE
Pull up stakes, to Realtors	RELO
Pulls apart	TEARS
Résumé, for short	VITA
Rhythmic writing	POEM
Roller coaster feature	LOOP
Ruminated	MUSED
Salad dressing flavor	RANCH
Sales pitch	SPIEL
Sci-fi weapon	LASER
Screen legend Garbo	GRETA
Serve specially	CATERTO
Set of eight	OCTAD
Sewed line	SEAM
Sharp, as vision	KEEN
Show disdain for	SCORN
Slip away from	ELUDE
Spanish-owned archipelago	CANARYISLANDS
Speak excitedly	RAVE
Speckled horse	ROAN
Split apart	SEVER
Sported	WORE
Sporty auto roofs	TTOPS
Spot for a soak	TUB
Square-corner shape	ELL
Stanley Cup awarder	NHL
Stine series	GOOSEBUMPS
Strong refusal	NOHOW
Supermarket department	DELI
Syrian __ Republic	ARAB
Telltale sign	ODOR
They're worked by push-ups	PECS
Throw into the mix	ADD
Tilted type: Abbr	ITAL
Tomato variety	ROMA
Took a risk	DARED
Try to prevent	DETER
Typical SAT takers	SRS
Ultimate purposes	ENDS
Value system	ETHIC
Vegetarian's avoidance	MEAT
Verbose	WINDY
Vigilant	ONALERT
Walk with a swagger	STRUT
Walked (on)	TROD
Walks heavily	PLODS
Western Hemisphere alliance	OAS
Wet dirt	MUD
Wind quintet member	OBOE
Winter wear	PARKA
Wood finish	STAIN
World Cup cheer	OLE