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NewsDay Crossword March 21 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Gear teeth

  COGS

• Navy noncoms: Abbr.

  CPOS

• Tear to shreds

  RIPUP

• Vegetable in gumbo

  OKRA

• Camel’s back feature

  HUMP

• Get out of bed

  ARISE

• Military invasion

  RAID

• Author Quindlen or actress Paquin

  ANNA

• Small gift ‘of appreciation’

  TOKEN

• Sport that includes handSPRINGs

  GYMNASTICS

• Geeky type

  NERD

• Response to ‘Look over there!’

  ISEEIT

• Brand-name of toaster waffles

  EGGOS

• Twist, as a wet towel

  WRING

• Man’s hairpiece

  TOUPEE

• Rolling stone’s supposed lack

  MOSS

• Black road surfaces

  TARS

• Group of top players

  ATEAM

• ‘Caught you!’

  OHO

• Commonplace

  TYPICAL

• Grand Canyon State campus: Abbr.

  ASU

• Remove suds from

  RINSE

• Wild guess

  STAB

• Hawaiian instruments

  UKES

• More inquisitive

  NOSIER

• Rear of a ship

  STERN

• ‘Otherwise . . .’

  IFNOT

• Strikes lightly, as a window

  TAPSAT

• After-dinner candy

  MINT

• Wearable timepiece once made with a mainSPRING

  WRISTWATCH

• Speak without a script

  ADLIB

• On the subject of

  ASTO

• Aloe __ (natural balm)

  VERA

• __ case (regardless)

  INANY

• Speak indistinctly

  SLUR

• Get __ (retaliate)

  EVEN

• ‘Leave immediately’

  NOWGO

• Chicken coop females

  HENS

• Office workstation

  DESK

DOWN

• Welsh __ (dog breed)

  CORGI

• Gives approval for

  OKAYS

• Laundry dirt

  GRIME

• ‘I’m sorry to say . . .’

  SADNEWS

• Moral purity

  CHASTITY

• Football kick

  PUNT

• Prefix meaning ‘all’

  OMNI

• Parking spot

  SPACE

• Mouse’s long-tailed relative

  RAT

• Resolve, as differences

  IRONOUT

• Mountain near Colorado SPRINGs

  PIKESPEAK

• Tech support caller

  USER

• Remain unresolved

  PEND

• Scuba tank filler

  AIR

• Police rank: Abbr.

  SGT

• Project’s objective

  GOAL

• Midday snoozes

  NAPS

• ‘Hominy’ side dish

  GRITS

• Make less difficult

  EASE

• Ostrich-like birds

  EMUS

• Pre-noon period, in poems

  MORN

• Cleveland’s state

  OHIO

• Male spouses of your offSPRING

  SONSINLAW

• ‘Shoo!’

  SCAT

• Adolescent

  TEEN

• Helpers in crime

  ABETTORS

• Refining, as flour

  SIFTING

• Needing to be topped with asphalt

  UNPAVED

• Line of theater seats

  ROW

• Uncooked, as sushi

  RAW

• Garbage in a can

  TRASH

• Apple cofounder Jobs

  STEVE

• Farmland measures

  ACRES

• Show gratitude to

  THANK

• Of primary importance

  MAIN

• Fig. on a driver’s license

  IDNO

• Castaway’s locale

  ISLE

• Astonish

  STUN

• ‘Liquor not provided’ letters

  BYO