Newsday.com Crosswords Answers – Thursday June 24 2021

Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Thursday June 24 2021.
”I won’t eat that!” – BLECCH
”Latest” prefix – NEO
Aficionado’s cheers – OLES
Ancient manuscript – CODEX
Blush alternative – ROUGE
Books reviewers – CPAS
Catches on – GETSIT
Certain sandwich exteriors – PITAS
Clicks-dependent business – ETAILER
Collectors’ quests – WANTS
Construct – MAKE
Deplete – USE
Detangle – UNSNARL
Dewey, to Donald – NEPHEW
Endeavor (to) – TRY
Entice – LURE
Euro fraction – CENT
Exclusionary connector – NOR
Family guy – PAPA
Far below par – POOR
Filmdom’s Sweeney Todd – DEPP
Gag reaction – HAHA
Give an address – ORATE
GPS reading – NNE
Grind together – GNASH
Having talons – CLAWED
Highest importance – PRIMACY
Historical studies – ERAS
Indebtedness initials – IOU
Inspiration for ”Wicked” – BAUM
It looks like H – ETA
Italian endearment – CARA
Just barely – ATAD
Kit __ (Hershey bar) – KAT
Little hairy pet – FURBALL
Major Russian river – URAL
Make a __ of (bungle) – HASH
Mideast capital – AMMAN
Muscular – SINEWY
Office attention-getter – STICKIE
Patron of Galileo – MEDICI
Plot’s progression – ARC
Pod in some soups – OKRA
Prefix for pilot – AUTO
Prismatic gem – TOPAZ
Repeated exactly – ECHOED
Resume speed, on a score – ATEMPO
Shove off – SAIL
Smartphone cover – SKIN
Soggy dirt – MUD
Something plucked by Polynesians – UKE
Sound during some drives – MOO
Sounded disappointed – TSKED
Southeast Asian hot sauce – SRIRACHA
Spills it – BLABS
Strait-laced – PRIM
Summing-up – RECAP
Superficial appearance – VENEER
Take over, as land – ANNEX
Thinks much of – ESTEEMS
Thrills – ELATES
Timetable stat – ETD
Toy tooter – KAZOO
Treble instrument – OBOE
UV-blocking number – SPF
Verne’s being – ETRE
Victorious general at the Battle of Carabobo (June 24, 1821) – SIMONBOLIVAR
What Spaniards call jai alai – PELOTA
What the battle led to, for 37 Across – INDEPENDENCE
What to call a catamaran – SHE
What’s served last – DESSERT
Where the battle took place – VENEZUELA
Whichever – ANYOLD
Whom Gauguin and Degas admired – CEZANNE
Wording – VERBIAGE
__ Moines, IA – DES