Newsday.com - Feb 2 2020 Crossword Answer

Newsday.com - Feb 2 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Lord's Prayer opening	OUR
Low card in a royal flush	TEN
Low point	NADIR
Macramé elements	KNOTS
Major retail operation	CHAIN
Make adjustments to	ALTER
Makes amends	ATONES
Michelangelo masterpiece	DAVID
Minor misstatement	FIB
Mormon priest	ELDER
Narrow escape	SCARE
Nation on the Red Sea	ISRAEL
Night school subj	ESL
Norman Rockwell's painter neighbor	GRANDMAMOSES
Northern end of the Appalachian Trail	MAINE
Not much of a challenge	EASY
Novelist Deighton	LEN
Of birds	AVIAN
Org. for top drivers	PGA
Palm fruit	DATE
Part of a simplicity simile	ABC
Part of UNLV	LAS
Pay out	EXPEND
Pep rally shout	YAYTEAM
Personal quirk	TIC
Pithy saying	ADAGE
Portable water source	CANTEEN
Postgraduate's project	THESIS
Repetitive practice	DRILL
Rockies resort	ASPEN
Rope on the range	LASSO
Salt __ (recipe instruction)	TOTASTE
Savory stimulus	ODOR
Seaport structure	DOCK
Sidekick	PAL
Small ''número''	UNO
Small musical ensembles	DUOS
Small, sweet sandwich	OREO
Sneaker sole pattern	TREAD
Something in water or holding water	VESSEL
Song superstar	ARIANAGRANDE
Soon, in verse	ANON
Soul singer Baker	ANITA
Soup can artist	ANDYWARHOL
Spot of land in the ocean	ISLE
Spring zodiac sign	ARIES
Subject in English class	NOUN
Summer hours in Md	EDT
Take the role of	PLAY
Talk big	BOAST
Tennis great Steffi	GRAF
The Big Easy alias	NOLA
Theater path	AISLE
Tibet's capital	LHASA
Trial software	BETAS
Trident competitor	DENTYNE
TV actress Falco	EDIE
Type of high-rise dwelling	CONDO
Unpredictable	ERRATIC
Very pale	ASHEN
Vigorous	BRISK
Western writer Bret	HARTE
What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common	AND
Wildlife protector	WARDEN
Wind instruments	OBOES
With a candlelike feel	WAXY
Without exception	ALWAYS
Wizard's concoction	POTION
Works with acetylene	WELDS
__ monster (Southwestern lizard)	GILA
__ nous (confidentially)	ENTRE
__' Pea (''Popeye'' infant)	SWEE
__-mo replay	SLO

Clues	Answers
''All bets __ off''	ARE
''Can't argue with that''	TRUE
''Lawrence of Arabia'' star	OTOOLE
''Little'' Dickens girl	NELL
''Many years __ . . .''	AGO
''Murphy Brown'' star	CANDICEBERGEN
''No idea''	GOTME
''Peer Gynt'' playwright	IBSEN
''The Office'' administrator	PAM
''The Rock'' Johnson	DWAYNE
Advil alternative	ALEVE
Altercations	SETTOS
Approach shot club	IRON
Big name in rap	DRDRE
Big-box furniture chain	IKEA
Big-horned goats	IBEXES
Bits of thread	LINT
Blu-ray rental	DVD
Brainstorming success	NEWIDEA
Car wash cycle	RINSE
Carded at a club	IDED
Carell's assistant in ''Evan Almighty''	WANDASYKES
Carnival amusement	RIDE
Cartoon collectibles	CELS
Childish comeback	CANSO
Choir room garments	ROBES
Clandestine govt. org	NSA
Classified cost	ADRATE
Cold War-era council	SOVIET
Commando operation	RAID
Conniving	SLY
Consequently	ERGO
Contributes	ADDSIN
Costner or Bacon	KEVIN
Crescent points	CUSPS
De Klerk successor	NELSONMANDELA
Diamond foursome	BASES
Dodgers pitching great	SANDYKOUFAX
Draw the short straw, say	LOSE
Easy to prepare, as desserts	NOBAKE
English racetrack town	EPSOM
Envelope fasteners	CLASPS
Evening, in ads	NITE
Exodus brother	AARON
Favoritism	BIAS
Fender dings	DENTS
Fill with joy	ELATE
First chip thrown in	ANTE
Form an alliance	UNITE
Formal turndown	NAY
French wine valley	RHONE
Garden hose holder	REEL
Gemologist's measure	CARAT
Genre for 23 or 28 Across	POP
German Peace Nobelist	WILLYBRANDT
Glittery strands	TINSEL
Gourmet gastropod	SNAIL
Groups of clerics	ORDERS
Gucci of fashion	ALDO
Has a hunch	FEELS
Helical marker	DNA
Henry Ford II's father	EDSEL
Huff and puff	PANT
Hunter's garb, for short	CAMO
Impulsive episode	SPREE
In great demand	HOT
Inspirational source	MUSE
Irk	RILE
Ironing mishap	SCORCH
It means ''equal''	ISO
Japanese wrestling	SUMO
Keep clear of	AVOID
Leveling wedge	SHIM