MUSIC TO YOUR EARS: Ending the five longest answers
Across
- Half-oz. measure
- Asked earnestly
- Twilled fabric
- Lite, on food labels
- Marine mammal
- Small songbirds
- First strategy
- Turkish money
- Way, way off
- Coups for tackles
- Email status
- Provo's place
- Best-flavored
- Sci-fi visitors
- Website visits
- Shows stamina
- Magazine mgrs.
- Golf peg
- Irish actor Stephen
- Prepares, as pies
- Prudent
- + and -
- Grow weary
- Rosary prayer
- Video game pioneer
- Cubic-shaped
- Melville sea captain
- Walk heavily
- Vast depth
- Fr. holy woman
- Originate (from)
- Mono- kin
- Mane, for instance
- Post-robbery directive
- Short sleep
- Adversities
- Mars alias
- San Diego attraction
- Nice and snug
- Oklahoma city
- Boot-shaped land
- Medicare section
- Timberland limit
- Uttered
- Copenhagen natives
- Military plane port near DC
- Sea plea
- Write (down) quickly
- Etching solutions
- Alaska gold rush city
- Scheduled takeoff hrs
- 60 Minutes airer
- Fridge brand
- Preserve the status __
- Per annum
- High point
- Breaks into bits
- Compulsive deceiver
- Messy pile
- Memo's "about"
- Reaction to a bad pun
- More ashen
- Actress Moore
- What many college sports are
- Sharpshooter Oakley
- Icy shower
- Creative inspiration
Down
- Chef's hat
- Feathered missile
- Chapters of history
- Biography
- Tartan pattern
- Russian news agency
- Canadian singer Paul
- Almanac info
- Slangy suffix
- Vinyl records
- Intensify
- Bug in a swarm
- Puzzle with pictures
- Go wrong
- Nobel, by birth
- Remove, as a rind
- Lingering marks
- Main impact
- Army uniform color
- South Pacific resort
- Sports colleagues
- Grew molars
- Hr. fraction
- Bag-screening org.
- 99-Across logo
- Yale students
- Those women, in Spain
- Cautious
- Sharp point of a wire fence
- Invitation request
- Prudent saying
- Little Havana locale
- On the __ (fleeing)
- Biblical tower town
- Author Morrison
- Border on
- Standing upon
- "Sorry to say..."
- Evens, as a score
- Tulsa sch.
- Lose, as fur
- Sledding spot
- Secure occupation
- Santa's burden
- Move like sap
- Atmospheric layer
- Neptune's spear
- Extreme fright
- Itinerary word
- Stage direction
- Grade-school orgs.
- Violin holder
- All __ (attentive)
- Serving from samovars
- Tech sch.
- Kremlin neighbor
- Pisa's river
- __ Jima
- Bubbly beverages
- Silent film heroine
- Tattoos
- Not alterable
- Terse affirmation
- Color TV pioneer
- Neighbor of Jordan
- Hold responsible
- Uttered loudly
- Banishment
- __ Martin (British auto)
- Called strikes
- City near Carson City
- Discount grocery chain
- Alike: Fr.
- US Women's Open org.
- High-style
- Be entitled to
- So-so grade
- Small bill
- Japanese assent
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, June 14, 2026 is titled “MUSIC TO YOUR EARS: Ending the five longest answers” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 146 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.
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