Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Saturday January 2, 2021.
”Real” thing – ESTATE
”__ Variations” (Beethoven piece) – EROICA
10-time ”’Muscle & Fitness” cover subject – FERRIGNO
4.184 gigajoules, vis-à-vis TNT – ONETON
Age – ERA
Becomes careless – NODS
Blame takers – GOATS
Brit’s gold coin – SOV
Burning sensation – IRE
Chafes – RUBSRAW
Cheaters – SPECS
Cherished – DEAR
City on New Providence – NASSAU
Color close to cream – ECRU
Consist of – ARE
County northeast of London – ESSEX
Cuts short – CROPS
Exceptional – RARE
Fine drawer features – TENONS
Flavors – TASTES
Flop – DUD
Fully – INTOTO
Galleries – TIERS
George I predecessor – ANNE
Go before – ANTECEDE
Hall of Famer, by definition – ENSHRINEE
Hall of Famers, by definition – GREATS
Havana? No – STOGIE
Having bounced once – ONAHOP
HHH successor as VP – STA
Honker – SNOOT
Ibsen character – ASE
Laugh, perhaps – REACT
Less windy – TERSER
Like a lot, perhaps – AUCTIONED
Main point – THRUST
Marimba mallet material – RATTAN
Murphy, per O’Toole’s Corollary – OPTIMIST
Not as practical – DREAMIER
Not for here – TOGO
Odin’s wife in 2011’s ”Thor” – RENERUSSO
Of rest – SABBATIC
Ottoman conquest of 1458 – ATHENS
Peace Nobelist after Anwar and Menachem – TERESA
Plenty of nothing – GOOSEEGGS
Proteus, e.g – SEAGOD
Realize – NET
Salon offerings – ARTSONGS
Second-string players? – CHARACTERACTORS
Serving and protecting – ONPATROL
Shakespearean title character – CRESSIDA
Ship in a Longfellow poem – HESPERUS
Sound effect – REVERB
Spousal __ – IRA
Stimulus – CUE
Suit tag letters – REG
Tchaikovsky’s ”Souvenir de Florence,” e.g – SEXTET
The least bit of concern – HOOT
Took in – ATE
Tot’s coat attachment – MITTEN
Tried – HADAGO
US stamp series subject of 1945-46 – FDR
Venerable boarding school – ETON
Video category – ANIME
Waited – SAT
War zones – SECTORS
What botanists call ”Ambrosia” – RAGWEEDS
Works with a certain stick – GLUESON
