Newsday Crossword April 4, 2025 Answers

Across

Draw, as flies7 Country folk6 Store clerk's erstwhile device7 "Grand old flag," per the song6 Pair of instruments14 Minestrone __ Milanese4 Mountain peaks4 IM Pei's US alma mater3 Measure for Dr. Tyson4 Brass instrument8 Health ratio stat.3 Nonstarter3 '70s day-care subject3 Home services website4 Easygoing4 Be a slacker5 He could play all the Across-answer instruments, at age six15 Is __ (likely will)5 Break in the action4 What commoners call queens4 Impress mightily3 Name on the cover of ...Red October3 Bar bottle3 Brass instrument8 Cocoon contents4 Extended "Anyway..."3 Big East overseer4 Declined slowly4 Pair of instruments14 "We can proceed"6 Was of value to7 Square, for one6 Confounds7

Down

Name on the annual National Inventors Day proclamation4 Bumper neighbor9 Hose-clamp fastener5 Some swim races6 Subject of Mailer's The Fight3 What succeeded the pfennig4 Genetic attribute5 Ruth's rookie team6 Decide what's fair3 Driving-home reward3 Famed Southwestern fortress5 Pravda cofounder5 Struck hard5 Network that turned 100 in '243 High-priority4 Scripts are written for them4 Witch craft5 Part of many a taqueria's name4 Quartet in Monopoly4 Bubble up4 Bifurcated5 What some 24-Down prevent3 What the planet's axis does4 Purchase incentive9 Dr. Watson exclamation4 Easy to manage4 Golden bear of cartoons4 Sit suddenly4 Ravioli relative6 5-Down, e.g.6 PC data format5 Burglarizes5 Sort of sculpture5 VCR pioneer3 Fruits, cutely5 Austrian Nobel physicist5 Letters atop some newspaper pages4 Taylor Swift wore them for a while4 Be a pest3 Compromise obstacle, often3 British novelist Weldon3