Newsday.com - Feb 8 2016

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Clues Answers
''Absolutely!'' YES
''All kidding __ . . .'' ASIDE
''Am not!'' reply ARESO
''That makes sense'' ISEE
11- or 12-year-old TWEEN
Appear to be SEEM
Bats' underground homes CAVES
Berets and bonnets HATS
Borscht vegetable BEET
Bullring cheer OLE
Bully's reply SAYSME
Capital of Norway OSLO
Car horn sound TOOT
Charming southern woman BELLE
Child not quite 20 TEEN
Clean vigorously SCRUB
Clock reading TIME
Computer buyer USER
Computer log-in entry SECRETPASSWORD
Cornfield birds CROWS
Cover with concrete PAVE
Decorate again REDO
Direct attention (to) REFER
Eat a formal meal DINE
End of a prayer AMEN
Fearless BOLD
Fireplace residues ASHES
Flat-topped hill MESA
Fork prongs TINES
Fortune tellers SEERS
Frolic ROMP
Granola grain OAT
Groups of warships FLEETS
High-speed pursuits in action films CARCHASES
Hunter's wooden duck DECOY
Hush-hush spy activity COVERTOPERATION
Kingly address SIRE
Low-power coffees DECAFS
Clues Answers
Lubricates OILS
Make amends (for) ATONE
Make happy ELATE
Metals in rocks ORES
Moral principle TENET
More unusual ODDER
Mornings: Abbr AMS
Munich mister HERR
One of the Great Lakes ERIE
Opera solo ARIA
Pear variety BOSC
Pebble or boulder STONE
Pirate's buried stash HIDDENTREASURE
Plumbing tubes PIPES
Poems of praise ODES
Polishes, as shoes SHINES
Prefix meaning ''against'' ANTI
Professionals' charges FEES
Pungent burger topping ONION
Rant and __ RAVE
Remove pencil marks ERASE
Ripped TORE
Roll-call response HERE
School semester TERM
Scottish caps TAMS
Scrooge's exclamation BAH
Shade tree ELM
Sing in the Alps YODEL
Small songbird WREN
Spuds TATERS
Stand up RISE
States of mind ATTITUDES
Take a risk DARE
Thrifty person SAVER
Wear away ERODE
Wickedness EVIL
Winter or summer SEASON
__ vera (skin-cream ingredient) ALOE