Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Thursday November 12, 2020.
”Amscray!” – SCAT
”Didn’t mean that” – OOPS
”Fire” gem – OPAL
”I’ll take that as __” – ANO
”It’s me” – IAM
”Odyssey”’s godfather of hunting – ORION
’80s First Lady – NANCY
A great deal – LOTS
Abbot’s subordinate – PRIOR
App development step – BETA
Apply lightly – DAB
April 13th, for one – IDES
Association football – SOCCER
Cantina drink, for short – RITA
Cereal box stats – RDAS
Certain soundtrack tracks – VOCALS
Chilling – ATEASE
Colas in quantity – CASES
Con artist’s quest – EASYMARK
Cook in hot oil – DEEPFRY
Creator of the Finches – LEE
Cross-promotion, e.g – TIE
Deletes for security reasons – REDACTS
Depart from the facts – LIE
Desserts with edible holders – ICECREAMCONES
Doc’s written order – SCRIP
Dots on a globe – CITIES
Dudes – MEN
Egg __ yung – FOO
Finger-shaped dessert – CHOCOLATEECLAIR
Fixate (on) – OBSESS
Fluffy colorful dessert – COTTONCANDYCAKE
Fool (with) – MESS
Footlocker – CHEST
Forecasting tool – RADAR
Formal denial – NAY
Govt. code crackers – NSA
Imposing work – EPIC
In a snit – SORE
Jr. and sr – YRS
Keg access – BEERTAP
Lackluster – BLAH
Marie’s ”to be” – ETRE
Mistypes or misplays – ERRS
Mosque leaders – IMAMS
Motor coach – BUS
Multi-rm. accommodation – STE
No time at all – INSTANT
Nonspecific amount – SOME
Not yet decided – OPEN
One of the Brontës – ANNE
Poetic direction – YON
Profit from – USE
Pulitzer rival – HEARST
Put __ on (limit) – ACAP
Real beauty – PEACH
Returned from work – CAMEHOME
Rights advocacy org – ACLU
Slightly, on a score – POCO
Sound of a small explosion – ACHOO
Soup, or salad, or steak . . – MENUITEM
Sour cream concoction – DIP
State of the Ozarks – ARKANSAS
Tiny colonists – ANTS
Tree with winglike seeds – ELM
Tunnel terminus – END
Upscale retreat – VILLA
Urban blight – LITTER
Visual perceptiveness – EYE
Waltz or rumba – DOADANCE
What the three longest answers have in common – CCC
Wryly funny – IRONIC
Yakety-yak – IDLECHAT
__ buco (Italian entrée) – OSSO
__ by (barely manages) – EKES
__’-shanter – TAMO
