Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Aug 10, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Aug 10, 2014

Clue	Answer
''As __ to recall . . .''	ISEEM
''I'm a Believer'' quartet	MONKEES
''If that doesn't work . . .''	ELSE
''Little Women'' sister	MEG
''Wheel of Fortune'' purchase	ANI
1770s in the US and 1790s in France	PERIODSOFREVOLUTION
ACLU concerns	RTS
Adored ones	IDOLS
Annie Oakley, notably	SHOOTINGSTAR
Annual sports awards	ESPYS
Artist Monet	CLAUDE
Asparagus servings	SPEARS
Auspices	EGIS
Backyard or patio	OUTERSPACE
Bashful	DEMURE
Blackboard assignment, perhaps	DONOW
Boo follower	HOO
Bricks that click	LEGOS
Business-jet pioneer	LEAR
Cameo stones	ONYXES
Chevron or BP	GASGIANT
Choir member	BASS
Closed, as blinds	DRAWN
Coffee alternative	TEA
College of Cardinals selections	POPES
Comics cry of dismay	ACK
Concerning	INRE
Conniving	SLY
Conversation filler	YKNOW
Craft-beer server	BREWPUB
Cul-de-__	SAC
Declares acceptable	OKAYS
Degree for George W. Bush	MBA
Destructive weather	TORNADO
Doggie	POOCH
Double Stuf cookie	OREO
Drain-cleaner chemical	LYE
English odist	KEATS
Exxon merger partner	MOBIL
Face-to-face exam	ORAL
Factory	PLANT
False front	ACT
Final Four org	NCAA
First Oscar winner for animated films	SHREK
Frank McCourt book	TIS
German camera	LEICA
Glinda's creator	BAUM
Go sky-high	SOAR
Granola descriptor	OATY
Grumpy or Doc, per their beards	WHITEDWARF
Guaranteed winner	SUREBET
Half a figure eight	ESS
Hammer or chisel	TOOL
Handy to have	USEFUL
Hedren of ''The Birds''	TIPPI
Holler	CRY
Home in the woods	CABIN
In a high-strung manner	EMOTIONALLY
Interior designs	DECORS
Inuit headgear	POLARCAP
Is sporting	HASON
Junk 47 Down	SPAM
Ladle, for instance	BIGDIPPER
Large vases	URNS
Little Red Book author	CHAIRMANMAO
Loch __ monster	NESS
Lone Ranger's farewell	ADIOS
LP material	VINYL
Male ''monarque''	ROI
Male turkeys	TOMS
May, in ''Spider-Man''	AUNT
Med. school subject	ANAT
Melodic	TONAL
Mess up	MISDO
Motel worker	MAID
Mouth tops	ROOFS
Much TV Land fare	RERUNS
New frat brother, perhaps	SOPH
New Hampshire city	NASHUA
New Testament king	HEROD
Nozzle	SPOUT
Obama's paternal ancestors	KENYANS
Ocean bottom	BED
Offend the nose	REEK
Offer a thought	OPINE
Old-style oath	EGAD
On __ (winning big)	AROLL
Online letters	EMAIL
Overly sentimental	SAPPY
Panels installed atop houses	SOLARSYSTEMS
Performs great, so to speak	ROCKS
Pester	NAG
Pharaoh's cross	ANKH
Prefix for sweet	SEMI
Prepares, as 72 Down	STEEPS
Preposterous	ABSURD
Prof. rank	ASST
Purloin	ROB
Queen's quarters	CASTLE
Region e. of Detroit	ONT
Require defrosting	ICEUP
Resistant to stretching	INELASTIC
Right-angle fitting	ELL
River through Lyon	SAONE
Rotation line	AXIS
Royal order	EDICT
Sculpted form	TORSO
Seafood garnish	LEMON
Self-esteem	EGO
Set off	TRIGGER
Shakes awake	ROUSES
Shakespearean teen	ROMEO
Shekel spender	ISRAELI
Silent-screen superstar	POLANEGRI
Singing syllables	TRALA
Slalom accessory	SKIMASK
Slow period for business	LIGHTYEAR
Smooth switch	SEGUE
Snobbish ones	SNOOTS
Solemn assent	IDO
Spotted horse	PINTO
Staying power, so to speak	LEGS
Suffix for nectar	INE
Swelter	FRY
Testified about	SWORETO
Thick board	PLANK
Thimbleful of a taste	SIP
Time for raking	AUTUMN
Totaled	RANTO
Toward the center	INNER
Turn to slush	THAW
Tuscan city	SIENA
TWA competitor	PANAM
Unseal, in verse	OPE
Unsettled	SHAKEN
Use as a source	CITE
USN noncom	CPO
Vegan staple	TOFU
Web computer language	HTML
Went (for)	OPTED
What a lot may be filled with	AUTOS
When shadows are shortest	MIDDAY
With it	HIP
Without a clue	LOST