Newsday.com - Aug 9 2017

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Clues Answers
''Deck the Halls,'' for one CAROL
''Shoo!'' SCAT
''Understood'' ISEE
Affirmative votes AYES
Allow entrance LETIN
Animated ALIVE
Apple music player IPOD
Author Morrison TONI
Barbecue servings RIBS
Basic principle TENET
Be a busybody SNOOP
Besides that ELSE
Boot-shaped country ITALY
Bovine beasts of burden OXEN
Break open suddenly BURST
Bygone days PAST
Carpeting calculation AREA
Cassini of fashion OLEG
Castaway's locale ISLE
Cereal in party mix CHEX
Chimney passage FLUE
Choose formally ANOINT
Connive secretly PLOT
Contribute GIVE
Criticize, informally DIS
Crunchy sandwich, for short BLT
Declare with confidence ASSERT
Design detail, briefly SPEC
Drained of color ASHEN
Drained of color PALE
Duo PAIR
Easy toss LOB
Elevate RAISE
Evaluators RATERS
Fencing ploys FEINTS
Gawked at EYED
Genetic material DNA
German mister HERR
Go left or right TURN
Clues Answers
Hid, with ''up'' HOLED
Houston baseballer ASTRO
Icy precipitation SLEET
In __ straits (needing help) DIRE
Iridescent gem OPAL
Jury member PEER
Justice Sotomayor SONIA
Leprechaun land ERIN
Long dress MAXI
Makes a mistake ERRS
Mature, as fruit RIPEN
Moan and __ GROAN
Moving about ASTIR
Muddy up ROIL
People from 17 Across IRISH
Perched upon ATOP
Prefix for pod TRI
Public persona IMAGE
Raised, as horses BRED
Rummy variety GIN
School support grp PTA
Scuba diving venue SEA
Shout from Scrooge BAH
Snooty ones SNOBS
Some phone messages TEXTS
Speed-checking device RADAR
Stick on, as a stamp AFFIX
Supposedly crafty creature FOX
Surgical venues: Abbr ORS
Swerve VEER
Target-shooting sport SKEET
Tough spot BIND
Treating at a restaurant PAYINGFORDINNER
Treating at a restaurant COVERINGTHEBILL
Treating at a restaurant PICKINGUPTHETAB
Triple-decker cookie OREO
Wigwam relative TEPEE
__ and void (no longer valid) NULL
__-friendly apps USER