Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Tuesday October 27, 2020.
”Dear old” father – DAD
”Half” prefix for sphere – HEMI
”If it __ broke . . .” – AINT
”Not guilty,” for example – PLEA
”Same here” – SOAMI
”You have my word __” – ONIT
”__ sesame!” – OPEN
35 Across city on the Rio Grande – LAREDO
Actress Close – GLENN
Athlete who’s paid – PRO
Attorney’s expertise – LAW
Beasts in a sty – PIGS
Belly muscles – ABS
Belongs to, as a club – ISPARTOF
Blue-to-red horizon – THESKYATSUNSET
Cancels an editorial deletion – STETS
Chooses, with ”for” – OPTS
Coin in Italy – EURO
Con game – SCAM
Corrodes, as iron – RUSTS
Diner take-out order – TOGO
Doesn’t attend – SKIPS
End of a power cord – PLUG
Falling-apart cars – HEAPS
Forest clearing – GLADE
Game played at Wimbledon – TENNIS
General vicinity – AREA
Green-to-red BLT ingredient – RIPENINGTOMATO
Green-to-yellow foliage – LEAVESINTHEFALL
Helpful hints – TIPS
In the past – AGO
Just hangs around – IDLES
Justice Kagan – ELENA
Large crowd – HORDE
Little pies – TARTS
Long-running feud – VENDETTA
Love, in Italy – AMORE
Map out – PLAN
Memo header – INRE
Netherlands’ floral symbol – TULIP
Nose, informally – SNOOT
Not worth debating – MOOT
Online diary – BLOG
Page in an atlas – MAP
Pampering place – SPA
Perched on – ATOP
Petroleum measure: Abbr – BBL
Piece of a flower – PETAL
Planet’s line of rotation – AXIS
Plop down on a chair – SIT
Point of a constellation – STAR
Practice for a bout – SPAR
Pulverized, as potatoes – MASHED
Radiate, as rays – EMIT
Reduced-price event – SALE
Remove a pencil mark – ERASE
Rings __ (sounds familiar) – ABELL
Rock source of petroleum – SHALE
Rung of a ladder – STEP
School semester – TERM
Shape of a hockey puck – DISC
Sharpen, as skills – HONE
Skeptical person – CYNIC
Stray from the script – ADLIB
Stuck-up person – SNOB
Thaw – MELT
The Lone Star State – TEXAS
Tiny amount – IOTA
Triumphed in the end – WONOUT
Vapor from a radiator – STEAM
War horse – STEED
What a spider spins – WEB
Where a ship docks – PIER
Work hard – TOIL
Would like to have – WANTS
__ days (time long past) – OLDEN
