Newsday.com Crossword Answers - Apr 28, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Apr 28, 2014

Clue	Answer
''If all __ fails . . .''	ELSE
''Roses __ red . . .''	ARE
''Sorry to hear that''	ALAS
Actual	REAL
Airline's prime concern	SAFETY
Aroma	ODOR
Bees' homes	HIVES
Bell sound	DING
Bit of a cloud	WISP
Bit of DNA	GENE
Bump on a toad	WART
Bygone period	PAST
Calculates a total	ADDS
Cashews and pecans	NUTS
Catch sight of	SEE
Celebrate boisterously	REVEL
Chinese side dish	RICE
Close by	NEAR
Cobful of corn	EAR
Confusing pathways	MAZES
Copenhagen resident	DANE
Cries loudly	WEEPS
Day-care enrollees	TOTS
Ebb	RECEDE
Fail to include	OMIT
Female deer	DOE
First Amendment right	FREESPEECH
Fixed, as a squeak	OILED
Folk stories	TALES
Fries lightly	SAUTES
Frizzy hairdo	AFRO
Get acquainted with	MEET
Gobbled down	ATEUP
Grade-school break	RECESS
Hardwood source	BEECHTREE
Hole for a shoelace	EYELET
Intermission follower	ACTTWO
Italian fashion city	MILAN
Lambs' dads	RAMS
Large stringed instrument	CELLO
Letter before tee	ESS
Made changes to	ALTERED
Major blood vessel	AORTA
Mechanic's greasy jobs	LUBES
More smart-mouthed	SASSIER
Netlike fabric	MESH
New person on the payroll	HIREE
Not doing anything	IDLE
Not well maintained	SHABBY
Numbered rd	RTE
One of the Great Lakes	ERIE
Opera solos	ARIAS
Point opposite WNW	ESE
Practices boxing	SPARS
Prone to snooping	NOSY
Put on clothes	DRESS
Sailor's ''Help!''	SOS
Seaside cities	PORTS
Severe cold snap	DEEPFREEZE
Shoe's sparkle	SHINE
Simplifies	EASES
Small, narrow valley	GLEN
Snow vehicle	SLED
Sock's diamond pattern	ARGYLE
Soothing ointment	SALVE
Sport with tees and clubs	GOLF
St. Patrick's Day bar serving	GREENBEER
Stadium level	TIER
Suffix for kitchen or luncheon	ETTE
Swiss peak	ALP
Three-person band	TRIO
Took part in a robbery	STOLE
Used a keyboard	TYPED
Wall-climbing plants	IVIES
Wave's high point	CREST
Worm, for a fisherman	BAIT
Worry nervously	FRET
__ and aahs	OOHS