Frontend display not supressing status=unpublished

Hi -

First day with CC and aiming to do a multi-table setup, but testing my first table I am finding that records marked unpublished in the backend via the default Joomla status field are nevertheless published in the frontend with the red-X displayed instead of filtered out. 

Is this expected behaviour or a bug?  I don't see an option to enable filtering the frontend display to only show "published" in the usual Joomla manner.  Suggestions?