Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Saturday January 9, 2021.
”A great volcano of a man who sang fire,” per Bono – PAVAROTTI
”Are we good?” – HAPPY
”How do you figure THAT?” – HUH
”Let’s see who’s faster!” – RACEME
”Nouveau-Mexique,” for one – ETAT
”Zealot” apostle – STSIMON
Aerial attack – SWOOP
Alpine towers on the way out – TBARS
Analytics expert – DATAMINER
Annual ”People” cover word – SEXIEST
Antique letter opener – SIRS
Beatnik’s show of empathy – IDIG
Best imaginable results – OPTIMA
Bite – SHARPNESS
Bug out – GOONTHELAM
Certain supplemental coverage – MEDIGAP
Come up short – OWE
Compounds in fertilizer – PHOSPHATES
Dashiki, for instance – TOP
Determined to get it done – ONAMISSION
Devices with virtual keys – SMARTLOCKS
Do not exist – ARENT
Emancipation Proclamation, e.g – EDICT
Ersatz screwdriver – COIN
Existentialist’s void – NONBEING
For any reason – ATALL
Group game with Yoshi and Luigi – MARIOPARTY
Half hexadeca- – OCTO
Heyday for voice actors – RADIOERA
Hoop group – NBATEAMS
Household openers – KNOBS
Hypnogram reading – REMSLEEP
Inspirational assistance – SCUBA
Mandate for maturity – ACTYOURAGE
Maximal ascendancy – APEX
Media Player file format – AVI
Metaphor for fading – EMBERS
Musical instrument that can emulate whale calls – WATERPHONE
Name related to Ilie – ELIAS
Novel minimizer – ETTE
NYY rival – BAL
Once-popular middle name – MAE
One in a Rubik’s race – SPEEDCUBER
Ones with thick spines – TOMES
Onetime FDR employer – NYS
Passing fancy – MANIA
Pivotal place – EPICENTER
Platform for 40 Across – NES
Platters weighing only 120 g – LPS
Preferred, in a phrase – GOTO
Pushup muscle, informally – TRI
Put together early – PREMADE
Quirk – TIC
Recipe reduction – TSP
Reply to a back-seat driver’s warning – ISEEIT
Revolutionary movement – EDDY
Sensibly composed – SANE
Show place – STAGE
Son of Cain – ENOCH
Sounds of surprise – OHS
Starts slinging mud – GETSNASTY
Straw beds – PALLETS
Tanning salon array – OILS
Trick’s conclusion – STER
Very soon – INAMOMENT
What Julius Caesar once was – SENATOR
Worked on a board – SAWED
Wow factor – ECLAT
