Newsday.com - Dec 31 2016

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
''Fire'' brigade? ANTS
''How often have I __ beneath rain'': Faulkner LAIN
''Take it away!'' ICK
Activity for stunt coordinators BONSAI
American acquisition of 2001 TWA
Angel's opposite BRAT
Ankle tickler, maybe HEM
As recently as ONLY
Awarder of America's oldest pro-sports trophy NHL
Banjo sequence ARPEGGIO
Bring pessimism into RAINON
Bulls' traditional rivals KNICKS
Cast off SLOUGH
Caterer's discard PIETIN
Certain wind shield EARLAP
Check from an act DETER
Choice to minimize clashing BEIGE
Depict as innocent, say ENHALO
Diversionary tactic ENDRUN
Earliest-born Oscar actor (''Disraeli,'' 1929) ARLISS
Film often shot in stages OATER
Frolicsome LARKY
Golf attire staple ARGYLE
Gosling collaborator in ''The Big Short'' CARELL
Harry Potter novels et al SEPTETS
Ilsa, to Rick OLDFLAME
In public SEEN
Insincere agreement ILLBET
Insulate COCOON
Is swooning over ADORES
Italian progenitor SABINE
Kick oneself for REPENTOF
Legendary turncoat knight MODRED
Merest hints IOTAS
Metaphorical floor NADIR
Mexican progenitor OLMEC
Clues Answers
Mishandled BLEW
Name associated with honesty ABE
Name of two ''Bridge of Spies'' co-writers COEN
Orange sauce in French cuisine BIGARADE
Out now PASSE
Oversee a port transfer DECANT
Point (to) REFER
Program executors, for short CPUS
Sale announcement of a sort FLYER
Sarcastic shout of nonsuccess NAILEDIT
Scrutinize PEERAT
See 27 Across COKE
Some investment criteria RATIOS
Source of brilliant bands AURORA
Spot hiked by Twain in ''A Tramp Abroad'' ALP
Spousal __ IRA
Square since the '80s DWEEB
Surfboard storage site CABANA
Symbol for an object IDEOGRAM
They might range from green to red ALERTS
They're cured for heroes SALAMIS
Together again REWED
Tried to sell URGED
Virtuosity PROWESS
Wag FARCEUR
Washouts FIASCOS
What Aqua Chem is made to remove ALGAE
What clubs hit you with DUES
What Katharine Hepburn called herself YANKEE
With 24 Across, ill-fated grocery debut of 1985 NEW
Woman in white in 100+ ads FLO
Word from the Greek from ''fine language'' EULOGY
Word in an endocrine system diagram ADRENAL
Word with etymology similar to ''feud'' FOE
You're instructed to ''beat it'' in ''Eat It'' EGG
__ Center (Atlanta tourist attraction) CNN