Newsday.com - Oct 2 2016

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''Beauty and the Beast'' girl BELLE
''Funny Girl'' composer STYNE
''Goodness!'' OHMY
''Have some!'' TASTEIT
''In what way?'' HOWSO
''Not so!'' reply ISTOO
''Steady as __ goes'' SHE
'50s Fords EDSELS
Actor Nick NOLTE
Aficionado FAN
Airport shuttle VAN
Antioxidant berry ACAI
Avid aficionados ROOTERS
Baroque instrument VIOL
Base-clearing hits HOMERS
Battery pole ANODE
Be under the weather AIL
Bookcase fastener SCREW
Bradbury of sci-fi RAY
Brake sound SCREECH
Bridle attachment REIN
Bring under control TAME
British nobleman BARON
Brute SAVAGE
Can't do without NEEDS
Cantina fare TACO
Caravan stop OASIS
Carnival confection COTTONCANDY
Carrier to Tel Aviv ELAL
Champagne holder GLASS
Collar insert STAY
Colorful tabby CALICOCAT
Comics Viking HAGAR
Currently popular baby girl name AVA
Daydreamer WOOLGATHERER
Direct (to) REFER
Duke Ellington tune SATINDOLL
Easel, for example STAND
Economist Smith ADAM
Empty space GAP
Entertains lavishly REGALES
Etching compound ACID
Eternal AGELESS
Fabricated statement LIE
Festoon ADORN
Fill with love ENAMOR
Fixture in some basements OILTANK
Flat-topped hill BUTTE
Flat-topped hill MESA
Flour producer MILL
Flout the rules CHEAT
Flows forth EMANATES
Frigidaire rival AMANA
From Havana CUBAN
Frond-bearing plant FERN
Fruit skins PEELS
Gaggle sounds HONKS
Gentle-but-firm persuasion VELVETGLOVE
Gets ready PREPS
Go places TRAVEL
Gunk GLOP
Hard to come by RARE
Hardwood tree ALDER
Hunter's garb, for short CAMO
In this way THUS
Informal refusal NAH
Intertwine MESHTOGETHER
Invitation abbreviation RSVP
Jam-packed DENSE
Leaf blower brand TORO
Least distant CLOSEST
Lose energy FLAG
Make amends (for) ATONE
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Marine, slangily LEATHERNECK
Media mogul Turner TED
Money-managing exec CFO
More adorable CUTER
Morn's opposite EEN
Most flexible LOOSEST
Mrs. Smith's competitor SARALEE
Music genre ROCK
Name derived from Dolores LOLA
NASCAR sponsor STP
Natural drier AIR
No longer happening OVER
Nullifies NEGATES
Once more AGAIN
Opulent residence ESTATE
Paid players PROS
Part of a flight STAIR
Plant in Road Runner cartoons CACTUS
Poetic preposition ERE
Pokes fun at MOCKS
Poor treatment ABUSE
Pop singer Tori AMOS
Pop's pop GRAMPS
Pothook shape ESS
Prayer wrap-up AMEN
Prefix meaning ''recent'' NEO
Proclaim AVOW
Put a stop to END
Quick message NOTE
Raptor's grabber TALON
Road branches FORKS
Rooster or stallion MALE
Ruses PLOYS
Safari sighting RHINO
Scoff at DERIDE
Send payment REMIT
Sentence segment PHRASE
Shortly, to Shelley ANON
Shows compassion for PITIES
Six-pt. plays TDS
Skateboarding stunt OLLIE
Slangy suffix OLA
Small memento TOKEN
Smokestack buildup SOOT
Snowman accessory SCARF
Spanish gold ORO
Speed demons RACERS
Star-shaped flower ASTER
Strong point FORTE
Support bars RAILS
Take to task SCOLD
Team leader COACH
This, in Tijuana ESTA
Tibia's place SHIN
Timeline slice ERA
Toon mermaid ARIEL
Touch base via phone CALLIN
Tremendously ALOT
Trim, as bushes PRUNE
U.S.-Canada defense system NORAD
Ultimatum ender ELSE
Unburdened RELIEVED
Very light dessert CHIFFONCAKE
Vietnamese holiday TET
Vitality LIFE
Waters down THINS
Wistful word ALAS
Word on Irish stamps EIRE
Worries FRETS
WWII subs UBOATS
Yoga accessory MAT
__ for (chooses) OPTS