Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Sunday November 8, 2020.
‘Check this out!” – LOOK
”Downton Abbey” countess – CORA
”GWTW” spread – TARA
”Here you go!” – THERE
”Peer Gynt” playwright – IBSEN
”This guy walks into __ . . .” – ABAR
”You __ kidding!” – ARENT
”__ was saying . . .” – ASI
7 Down collector – INNIE
Accepts, as a challenge – TAKESON
Actress Sorvino – MIRA
Ancient Andean – INCA
Arborist, in fall – RAKER
Art on ankles, perhaps – TAT
Ballet pivot point – TOE
Bassoon insert – REED
Be a moocher – CADGE
Bear with the too-soft bed – MAMA
Become slushy – THAW
Bibliography notation – ETAL
Big bully – BRUTE
Board game at a bar – DARTS
Boars and sows – SWINE
Bottom-of-business-letter notation – ENC
Bowling-alley apparatus – PINSETTER
Bridge collection – TOLL
By itself – PERSE
Came to prominence – AROSE
Canal gate – LOCK
Carousel carvings – HORSES
Cash equivalents of a sort – IOUS
Casino crew – DEALERS
Cello relative – VIOLA
Certain science course – PHYSICSLAB
CIA forerunner – OSS
Commandos’ weapons – UZIS
Commercials – TVADS
Comrade in arms – ALLY
Confiscate – SEIZE
Confucian principle – TAO
Continue to be – STAY
Crushed, as an exam – ACED
Designated successors – HEIRS
Desktop clickers – MICE
Didn’t pay enough to – SHORTED
Director DuVernay – AVA
Director Lee – ANG
Disgorges – SPEWS
Doesn’t play, as a piano – RESTS
Dryer trap collection – LINT
Eisenhower or Bradley, circa 1913 – WESTPOINTER
Examined closely – EYED
Fable finale – MORAL
Family guys – DADS
Farming students – AGGIES
Farsi speaker – IRANIAN
Fathers and sons – MEN
Favre of football fame – BRETT
Fella – BUB
Financial page letters – NYSE
Fitzgerald with 13 Grammys – ELLA
Form 1040 ID – SSN
Founded: Abbr – EST
From Beirut – LEBANESE
Gag’s start or end – HARDG
Geology buff – ROCKHOUND
German highway – BAHN
German industrial region – SAAR
Glide down slopes – SKI
Golfer’s accessory – BALLRETRIEVER
Golfer’s accessory – TEE
Greedy one’s cry – MINE
Greek goddess of peace – IRENE
Hammer’s rounded end – PEEN
Hershey’s neighbor on candy counters – REESES
Ideal environs – EDEN
Intensify, informally – AMPUP
Invoice add-ons – TAXES
Irish pop singer – ENYA
Israeli native – SABRA
It’s near the 71 Across – LENS
Like __ of bricks – ATON
Longfellow poem stand-in – ALDEN
Made ravenlike noises – CAWED
Manger visitor – LOWLYSHEPHERD
Mazda two-seater – MIATA
Melon variety – CRENSHAW
Metallic corrosion – RUST
Most elusive – RAREST
Move like a tortoise – PLOD
Newspaper ”calendar” listing – EVENT
Not as genteel – RUDER
Not so sunny – GRAYER
Off the mark – AMISS
Optic protector – SCLERA
Out, in a bout – KOD
Overfill – CROWD
Part of a roller coaster ride – LOOPS
Partnerless – LONE
Piece of fencing – SLAT
Portraitist’s prop – EASEL
Portraitists’ workshops – ATELIERS
Postal Service symbol – EAGLE
Puccini opera – TOSCA
Pugilist in training – SHADOWBOXER
Purina product – KITTENCHOW
Purloined – STOLE
Push, as a button – DEPRESS
Quoted as a source – CITED
Rafter’s propeller – POLE
Reached for one’s toes – BENT
Repairs, as some driveways – TARS
Response from a wrongdoer – SUEME
Rip apart – REND
Rowing equipment – OARS
Scan, as data – READIN
Screen-icon strip – TOOLBAR
Second son – ABEL
Shows contrition – ATONES
Small animal, in lit – BEASTIE
Social life metaphor – SPHERE
Something in the air – SCENT
Sought secrets – SPIED
Spa staffers – MASSEURS
Speculate with your cash – BET
Step __ (bow out) – ASIDE
Supermodel Bündchen – GISELE
Support for some bridges – ARCH
Take heed of – NOTE
Tarzan’s transport – VINE
Tech debut of 2007 – IPHONE
Thanksgiving Day: Abbr – THU
They may be late, especially on weekends – RISERS
Things we have – OURS
Throws out there as a price – ASKS
Took hold of – GOT
Touches on – ABUTS
Unoriginal work – RETREAD
Urban transportation element – BUSLINE
Vertical transportation giant – OTIS
Way of walking – GAIT
Wedding venue – ALTAR
What fills some veins – ORE
Wild guess – STAB
Zellweger of cinema – RENEE
__ out a victory (wins barely) – EKES
