Newsday.com Crossword Answers – Saturday November 25 2017

Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Saturday November 25 2017.

”That’s unfortunate!” – APITY
”The scales fell from my eyes” – ISAWTHELIGHT

42% of Scrabble tiles – AEIOU
900 -station network – NPR
Approval, so to speak – THENOD
Author admired by Sirs ACD and JMB – RLS
Becomes more driven about – LEANSINTO
Blessing-curse connector – ORA
Bolted – RAN
Certain wedding official – RABBI
Clear a storage unit – ERASE
Command the attention of – RIVET
Commission, e.g. – FEE
Congestion is likely to affect them – ETAS
Corporate cheque abbr. – LTD
Criminal signatures – MOS
Dalai Lama’s former home – LHASA
Designer in the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame – WANG
End of an early-dealing maxim – NINE
Energy source – SOL
Exodus 19 setting – SINAI
Festive cry – OLE
Former Miss Florida pageant home – STPETE
From this day forward – HENCE
German leaf-blower brand – STIHL
Hail in Oz – GDAY
Half a converse phrase – VERSA
Home for organic filaments – STAMEN
Hyperbolize, with ”on” – LAYIT
Italian nickname for Anthony – NINO
Legs on a lobster – TEN
Lilylike garden plant – HOSTA
Liquid in some flamb̩ed desserts РCOINTREAU

Make clear, or confuse – RAVEL
Mere shadows – GHOSTS
Mitigating – ALLEVIATIVE
Monsoon region designator – AFROASIAN
New England ”Public Ivy” – UCONN
Northern Rockies region: Abbr. – ALB
Open-pore material – SUEDE
Peruvian pronoun – ESA
Plugged in – HIP
Portfolio adjustments – REBALANCING
Potentate’s proclamation – DECREE
Promulgate – SOW
Reaches a new level – SOARS
Received avidly – ATEUP
Road blocker, at times – SNOWSTORM
Salsa verde ingredient – TOMATILLO
Semi- doubled – OMNI
Sesame, on Southern menus – BENNESEED
Smooth pivot – SEGUE
Soil’s growth potential – TILTH
Southeast Asian hot sauce – SRIRACHA
Special-event compositions – OCCASIONALPOEMS
Spots for wallet-size Kahlo portraits – PESOS
Started a growing season, maybe – HOED
Starter suggesting miscellany – VARI
Starting __ – GATE
Strapped – PENNILESS
Swells – ADDSTO
Terribly awkward – CRINGEWORTHY
Throws out – EMITS
Time for some wrap parties? – NOEL
Time for some wrap parties? – YULE
Unassailable – IRONCLAD
Urban graffitist’s ”canvas” – SUBWAYCAR
Voltage/amperage researcher – OHM
Whom Cleopatra identified with – ISIS
Word before pack or pick – ICE