Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Thursday September 16 2021.
”Can’t type now” text – AFK
”Height” prefix – ACRO
”Nature” network – PBS
”This is perfect!” – ILOVEIT
A musical’s singing – VOCALS
Annual report VIP – CEO
Brother in the family – UNCLE
Business designation – INC
Class for English majors – LITCRIT
Cleric, for short – REV
Clumsy ones – LOUTS
Cobra kin – ASP
Comes out with – UTTERS
Cosmetics regulator – FDA
Covert missions – OPS
Critical period – CRUNCHTIME
Employment – USE
Ends of pens – NIBS
Escapee’s plea – HIDEME
Eventuated – CAMETRUE
False undertaking – SHAM
Family member, for short – COZ
Featherbrain – SIMP
Feigns feelings – EMOTES
Floor-cleaning implement – SQUEEZEMOP
Flower part – PISTIL
French fry, in France – FRITE
French wine cocktail – KIR
Gobbled up – ATE
Great relish – ZEST
Greeting between bros – YODOG
Hawaii’s ”Garden Isle” – KAUAI
Help page header – FAQ
How some like their carrots – CRINKLECUT
I can stand for it – ONE
Impromptu band gig – JAMSESSION
Instructions section – STEP
Last word in liturgy – AMEN
Lullaby guy – BRAHMS
Mimosa family shrub – ACACIA
Modicum – ATOM
Monument Valley group – NAVAJO
Neurology test – EEG
NL West team – ARI
Olay alternative – AVEENO
Paddle pusher – CANOEIST
Peak performance – AGAME
Poetic green land – ERIN
Poetic twilight – EEN
Pole topper – ICECAP
Possible beach wedding observer – SEAGULL
Pull-up muscle – LAT
San Francisco’s __ Hill – NOB
Schnitzel meat – VEAL
School near Windsor Castle – ETON
Sharp yank – TUG
Sit-up muscles – ABS
Smartphone essential – CPU
Taiwanese PCs – ACERS
Tampa-St. __ – PETE
Tease gently – RIB
Thing with a trunk – TREE
Things to walk on – SOLES
Thrash about – FLAIL
Three-card con – MONTE
Tulane rival – LSU
Tuna at luaus – AHI
Types of alkalines – ACELLS
University official – REGENT
What a crash test tests – CRUMPLEZONE
What brass has – ZINC
What rubdowns remediate – ACHES
What the herder heard – BAA
When doubled, a cutesy meal – DIN
With a calico catlike coat – BLOTCHY
Worker wearing jingle bells – ELF
Yellow gem – TOPAZ
__ Royal Highness – HER
