JEWEL OF DENIAL
Across
- Alert early
- Club branch
- Disagreeable person
- Village like in Fiddler
- What some get stuck in
- Added expense
- "How wonderful!"
- Arthur Miller contemporary
- View from a distance
- Beethoven's Third
- Austrian article
- Second half of quote
- Park or playground
- Oven section
- Some parties
- Food processor
- Retired (in 2023) soccer star
- Tex-Mex stuffed pepper
- First half on a quote
- Guilty pleasure
- Without compassion
- Slot's space holder
- "__ right!"
- "Little" Dickens girl
- Terre dans l'ocean
- Sport performed while seated
- Organic sealant
- Snoot
- Lyric lines
- 46th st.
- Dated now
- Source of quote, re the quotes attributed to him
- Word on a workout calendar
- Dressing acronym
- Sly guy or shady lady
Down
- In on
- Princely prerogative
- Facilitates
- Tough questions
- Work at busily
- Compatriot
- Catch-22 author
- Metaphorical source
- One of the "Twelve Caesars"
- VMI program
- Novelist Patchett
- Dentist's request
- High-class diner
- Unseen commercial
- Postal machine
- Commotions
- Marks, as a square box
- It's south of New Delhi
- Closing Bell airer
- Brit lit governess
- "+" or "-" particle
- Unprocessed
- 70-year sovereign
- Sugar Bowl org.
- Novel medium
- Beat tracker
- With 34-Down, Ivy founder
- Blue-collar, for short
- Ancestor to all
- See 29-Down
- Biodegrade
- Beating in carbonation
- Picture show of a kind
- Painter tutored by Titian
- Assyrian city cited by Kipling
- Web developers
- Rainy day farewell
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, January 31, 2025 is titled “JEWEL OF DENIAL” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 72 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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