Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Aug 17, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Aug 17, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Hey, slow it down!''	EASY
''If I Only Had the Nerve'' singer	LAHR
''Moneyball'' star	PITT
''On the Beach'' author Nevil	SHUTE
''Silly me!''	IMAFOOL
''The Jungle Book'' star	SABU
''Welcome to Maui!''	ALOHA
Accelerate, with ''up''	REV
Actress Witherspoon	REESE
Agree silently	NOD
All thumbs	INEPT
Ancient legend	MYTH
Author Murdoch	IRIS
Baker's dozens	EGGS
Bank-poster datum	CDRATE
Be in charge	RUNTHESHOW
Bedroom piece	BUREAU
Bet first	OPEN
Betting tactic	PARLAY
Bit of hail	PELLET
Blow one's top	ERUPT
Book-jacket bit	BIO
Bowl over	AWE
Brazilian writer Jorge	AMADO
Bring to bear	EXERT
Business phone no. add-on	EXT
By way of	VIA
Calendrical brink	EVE
Capitol Hill VIP	SEN
Carbon-14, e.g	ISOTOPE
Careen	LURCH
Caribou relative	ELK
Casserole tidbit	NOODLE
Catchphrase	TAGLINE
Cause of inflation	HIKEINPRICES
Celebrity chef Bobby	FLAY
Certain groomer's specialty	DOGHAIR
Connection	LINKAGE
Corporation's regulation	BYLAW
CPR expert	EMT
Cranial cavity	SINUS
Derby town of England	EPSOM
Discontinues	CEASES
E-commerce facilitator	PAYPAL
Early afternoon hr	TWOPM
Elates	LIFTS
Emulate Gutenberg	SETTYPE
Enrapture	RAVISH
Far from the spotlight	OBSCURE
Fill the tank	GASUP
Find great fault with	CLIMBALLOVER
Form of oxygen	OZONE
Founded	BEGAN
Full of energy	ALIVE
Garish signs	NEONS
Get __ on the back	APAT
Get-up-and-go	PEP
Give permission	SAYOK
Go rather briskly	TROT
Golden State sch	UCAL
Good buddies	CHUMS
Greek omelet ingredient	FETA
HBO competitor	TMC
Hi-fi system	STEREO
Hi-tech classroom	PCLAB
Hold 'em fee	ANTE
Holden's brother in ''Catcher in the Rye''	ALLIE
Holes in your shoe	EYELETS
Home of Wichita St	KAN
House-salad alternative	BOWLOFSOUP
HS support org	PTA
In a state of fusion	MOLTEN
Indecisive one	FENCESITTER
It's north of Chile	PERU
Ivanhoe creator	SCOTT
Jump to one's feet	LEAPUP
Justice Dept. division	ATF
Katmandu native	NEPALI
Kitchen cleaners	MOPS
Kitchen-gadget brand	EKCO
Likely to offend folks, for short	NOTPC
Long (for)	ACHE
Lose traction	SLIP
Lug around	TOTE
Mag's space seller	ADREP
Main-course combo	SURFANDTURF
Make mention of	CITE
Mattress support	BOXSPRING
Melody	TUNE
Melville's monomaniacal mariner	AHAB
More despicable	BASER
Most Iraqis	SHIITES
NASCAR great Earnhardt	DALE
Nodded off	SLEPT
Obvious	EVIDENT
Of two minds	TORN
One-celled organism	AMEBA
One-quarter of zero	ZEE
Opposing teams	SIDES
Optimistic comment	IHOPESO
Parking area	LOT
Part of FDA	DRUG
Part of TNT	NITRO
Payable	DUE
Permissive	LAX
Photo blowup: Abbr	ENL
Piercing tool	AWL
Plug away	TOIL
Posh properties	ESTATES
Pre-coll. exam	PSAT
Precious thing	GEM
Prepare to propose	KNEEL
Pseudocultural	ARTY
Rd. atlas listings	STS
Reach	GETTO
Reels of yarn	SKEINS
Repurposed T-shirt, maybe	RAG
Retro headgear	BEANIE
Rights reader	COP
Rural storehouse	SILO
Self-centeredness	EGOTISM
Skim-milk descriptor	NOFAT
Slangy suffix for switch	EROO
Some cats and goats	ANGORAS
Stage platform	RISER
Store announcement	SALE
Strongly suggesting	URGING
Submerged	SUNKEN
Suffix for self	ISH
Tai __ (martial art)	CHI
The girl, in Granada	LANINA
Toyota rival	SUBARU
Treat hurriedly	SKATEOVER
Under the weather	ILL
What an unhappy buyer bemoans	BADDEAL
What Caesar called France	GAUL
Whispered call	PSST
Whitman and Whittier	POETS
Winding curve	ESS
Window part	SASH
Winter garment	TOPCOAT
Woodpile covering	TARP
Word to the wise	TIP
Wyoming's __ Range	TETON
Yank	TUG
__-tac-toe	TIC