Newsday.com Crossword Answer - May 18, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - May 18, 2014

Clue	Answer
''60 Minutes'' airer	CBS
''Necessary'' downside	EVILS
''Pardon me . . .''	AHEM
''Yeah, sure!''	HAH
''__ it a pity?''	ISNT
'70s Egyptian leader	SADAT
Alabama athletes	CRIMSONTIDE
Ambiance	AURA
Annual Pamplona runners	TOROS
Athenian statesman	SOLON
Bad-mouth	ASPERSE
Baldwin of ''30 Rock''	ALEC
Beanery handouts	MENUS
Birth of a notion	SEED
Black Russian ingredient	VODKA
Brunch fare	OMELETS
Buffalo NHLer	SABRE
Bugs Bunny insult	WHATAMAROON
Bump in the road	SNAG
Business partner, perhaps	SON
Cash advance	LOAN
Cash in 20+ countries	EUROS
Cheese partner at lunch	MAC
Columnists' page	OPED
Company with an ''inc.'' name	CORP
Compass point	WEST
Court orders	WRITS
DC contingent	GOP
Depiction on some slippers	BUNNY
Designer Kenneth	COLE
Do perfectly	NAIL
Druid, for one	PAGAN
Elaborate scams	SETUPS
End of a ''Casablanca'' toast	KID
English sculptor	MOORE
Evening hour	SEVEN
Exchanges, as an auto	TRADESIN
Fairly tight	SNUG
Ferrell's anchorman role	RONBURGUNDY
Fill to excess	SATE
First pope	STPETER
Five-star review	RAVE
Forest growth	LICHEN
Former	OLD
Full of foam	SUDSY
Get in a stew	FRET
Go downhill, perhaps	COAST
Herring's cousin	SHAD
High-school math	TRIG
Hoedown seats	BALES
Hold back, as breath	BATE
Hornets' home	NEST
How fries are fried	INOIL
Ink stain	BLOT
Innocent ones	BABES
Italian autos	FIATS
Itsy-bitsy	WEE
Kagan of the Supreme Court	ELENA
Kemper of ''The Office''	ELLIE
Kitchen gadget	RICER
Lacking culture	CRUDE
Lasting mark	SCAR
Legendary Native American athlete	THORPE
Letters on Forever stamps	USA
Logical flaw	HOLE
Long, long time	EON
M __ ''mnemonic''	ASIN
Male aardvark	BOAR
Many-trunk tree	BANYAN
Mason's tool	BRICKTONGS
Microwave setting	THAW
Mrs. Sprat's no-no	LEAN
Nation that lost a day in 2011	SAMOA
Ned's wife on ''The Simpsons''	MAUDE
New Year's broadcast	ROSEPARADE
Not so kind	MEANER
Novelist Tan	AMY
Overly sweet	ICKY
Panasonic's headquarters	OSAKA
Part of UPC	CODE
Periphery	EDGES
Pharmacy order, for short	SCRIP
Philosopher who inspired Jefferson	LOCKE
Poet Whitman	WALT
Pointy beard	VANDYKE
Prefix for cycle	UNI
Pucker-producing	TART
Pulitzer composer Ned	ROREM
Push hard	SHOVE
Put the collar on	ARREST
Put up	ERECT
Quarterback great Terry	BRADSHAW
Radio station sign	ONAIR
Red-haired explorer	ERIC
Repetitive practice	DRILLS
Restaurant bill addition	TIP
Salon sound	SNIP
Sauerkraut trait	ODOR
Savoir-__	FAIRE
School-zone warning	SLOW
Serious lapse	CARDINALSIN
Shaped like jellybeans	OVOID
Sharp pull	TUG
Sharpen	HONE
Shepherd of Genesis	ABEL
Small sums	MITES
Snowman of song	FROSTY
Soft-drink variety	CHERRYCOLA
Some economic stats	AVGS
Soup eater's faux pas	SLURP
Stands to lose	RISKS
Staying power, so to speak	LEGS
Stocking shade	BEIGE
Striking scene	TABLEAU
Strong ale	BARLEYWINE
Sub __ (secretly)	ROSA
Sunbather's risk	BURN
Sunflower Stater	KANSAN
Superman's birth name	KALEL
Sushi-bar soup	MISO
Suspect in Clue	MISSSCARLET
Swarm	TEEM
Take under one's wing	ADOPT
Takes heed of	NOTES
Talent for banter	WIT
TGI Friday's rival	RUBYTUESDAY
Think (over)	MULL
Tolerate	ABIDE
Tot stuff	TOYS
Usher's beat	AISLE
Van renter	MOVER
Virtuoso performer	ARTIST
Voting alliance	BLOC
Walled city of Spain	AVILA
Went awry	ERRED
What a fare is for	RIDE
Winds up	CLOSES
With it	HIP
With no match	ODD
Words following ''sleep'' or ''step''	ONIT
Yalie	ELI
Youngsters' ballfield	SANDLOT
Zebralike	STRIPY
__ carotene	BETA
__ Island Immigration Museum	ELLIS
__ Sea (Antarctic expanse)	ROSS