Newsday.com Crossword Answers – Friday November 17 2017

Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Friday November 17 2017.

“Bus Stop” dramatist – INGE
About 1% of the Vatican – ACRE

Acts as a sub – SITSIN
After-dinner wines – SHERRIES
Area beyond the cockpit – NOSE
Assign to, as a desk – SEATAT
Be in sync – JIBE
Big name in ’70s tennis – ILIE
Blade that’s a propeller – OAR
Bottle part – NECK
Briefly big thing – FAD
Caroling tune – NOEL
Celeb tourney, often – PROAM
Celebrated star – IDOL
City on the Seward Peninsula – NOME
Coal region of Poland – SILESIA
Commission of a sort – FINDERSFEE
Composer pal of Gershwin – ARLEN
Convenient, as shopping – ONESTOP
Craig’s boss in “Skyfall” – DENCH
Deep down – ATHEART
East Asian stews – HOTPOTS
End of quote – BUTAPIECEOFCAKE
Ender meaning “tooth” – DENT
Fl. oz. fraction – TSP
Hoops turnover – STEAL
Kay Thompson kid character – ELOISE
Kemper of Netflix’s “. . . Kimmy Schmidt” – ELLIE
Lacks – HASNT
Liven (up) – PERK
Lookout – EYER
Makes haste – HIES
Mere pittance – TRIFLE
Middle of quote – SLICEOFLIFE
Miscellaneous category – OTHER
Moneda mexicana – PESO
Monopoly outlay – RENT
Newly done with – RIDOF
Night chirper – CRICKET
On the losing end – BEATEN
Opposite of “passé” – HIP
Outskirts – PERIPHERY
Own (up) – FESS
Peanut-butter cup creator – REESE
Phone button letters – OPER
Pier group – BOATS
Pointillist from Paris – SEURAT
Police blotter data – PRIORS
Reason for a dash do-over – FALSESTART
Scholarly attainment – PHD
Scottish version of Johann – IAN
Señor’s sun – SOL
Senator seen in Burns’ “The War” – INOUYE
Shoulder muscles – DELTS
Sneaker support – ARCH
Soothes with cubes – ICES
Spellbind – ENTHRALL
St. Pete setting – EST
Start of a Hitchcock quote – THECINEMAISNOTA

Starter for 60 Across – TRI
Stephen King canine – CUJO
Student wearing a Y – ELI
Subcontracted, with “out” – JOBBED
Tic-tac-toe symbols – HYPHENS
Tom, in “Apollo 13” – JIM
Transmission lever – GEARSHIFT
Trojan War instigator – ARES
Volleyball arbiter – REF
Where Ford is “F” – NYSE
With no skill – INEPT
Wordsworth line – POETRY
Wordsworth, for one – ODIST