Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Thursday July 22 2021.
”Fifty Shades . . .” woman – STEELE
”Great Big World of Science” author – NYE
Achy, say – INPAIN
Aesthete’s interest – ART
After everyone else – LAST
Airy farewell – ADIEU
Anagram/antonym of ”unite” – UNTIE
Austen novel – EMMA
BBC competitor – ITV
Beverages rated by bitterness – ALES
Bits of wit – PUNS
Boot-camp command – ATEASE
Carried out – DID
Cash in Kolkata – RUPEE
Channel once seen on many airport screens – CNN
Coin in Chihuahua – PESO
Comics bark – ARF
Commuter line – RAIL
Concern for oneself – EGO
Current choices – ACDC
Data – STATS
Dealt with a spill – MOPPEDUP
Expend – USE
Fails to be – ISNT
Farm structures – STIES
Fiction genre – HORROR
Flat hat – TAM
Four of a kind – TETRAD
Free from tangles – UNKNOT
Gasps or grins – REACTS
Gets ready, as a grand – TUNES
Guinea pigs’ cousins – AGOUTIS
Horseshoe-shaped letter – OMEGA
In-a-pinch coat hanger – NAIL
Incapable of insight – OBTUSE
Indispensable team members – COREGROUP
Jet-engine sound – ROAR
Lemon leftovers – RINDS
Long-eared hoppers – HARES
Lunar plain – SEA
Much of paella – RICE
NL Central team – STL
Novelist Patchett – ANN
Olympics jacket logo – USA
Overflowed (with) – TEEMED
Place at risk – BET
Quirky habit – TIC
Recent USNA grad – ENS
Releases – FREES
Remain prone – LIE
Ruckus – FLAP
Run away (with) – ELOPE
Second of all – EVE
Senator in action – ENACTOR
Shore up – SUPPORT
Smooch – BUSS
Sounded scratchy – RASPED
Swimmer with flippers – SKINDIVER
Symbol for stopping – RED
Tablet accessory – STYLUS
Take over for – RELIEVE
They’re fundamental – BASICS
Tons – ALOT
Took off on – COPIED
Took off on – APED
Touchpad kin – MICE
Tourney favorites – TOPSEEDS
Town’s principal road – MAINSTEM
Travolta’s first film with Tarantino – PULPFICTION
Unduly curt – SNIPPY
Unimproved – NOBETTER
Unvarying practice – RUT
Very small swimmer – AMOEBA
Win back – RECOUP
Word before pack or pick – ICE
Work hard at – PLY
