Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Aug 18, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Aug 18, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Plastic'' payment method	CHARGECARD
Alan of ''M*A*S*H''	ALDA
Angora fabric	MOHAIR
Apex	ACME
Approach quickly	RUNTO
Bad-weather alert	STORMWATCH
Be worthy of	EARN
Begin conducting an orchestra	STRIKEUPTHEBAND
Billiards stick	CUE
Black-and-white cookies	OREOS
Blacken on the barbecue	CHAR
Bullets, for short	AMMO
Cash advance	LOAN
Chauffeured auto	LIMO
City near Phoenix	TEMPE
Crimson and scarlet	REDS
Desertlike	ARID
Egg-shaped	OVAL
Enjoy the pool	SWIM
Expo with new yachts	BOATSHOW
Fail to mention	OMIT
First part of a play	ACTI
Four-door car	SEDAN
Frightening	SCARY
Give a speech	ORATE
Granola grain	OAT
Group of eight	OCTET
Group of performers	CAST
Happy feeling	MIRTH
Homes for canaries	CAGES
Huff and puff	PANT
Husband or wife	MATE
Identical	SAME
Impolite look	LEER
Is deceitful	LIES
Keep out of sight	HIDE
Kid's coloring stick	CRAYON
Kitchen or den	ROOM
Lamb owner of nursery rhyme	MARY
Last-yr. high-schoolers	SRS
Lounge around	LOLL
Major blood vessel	AORTA
Make an escape	FLEE
Make happy	ELATE
Nest eggs held at S&Ls	IRAS
Netlike fabric	MESH
New person on the payroll	HIREE
Numerical fact, for short	STAT
Oak seed	ACORN
Office attire	SUIT
Oil-cartel acronym	OPEC
One of the Great Lakes	ERIE
Pie pans	TINS
Piece of a chain	LINK
Publicity guy, for short	PRMAN
Rabbit relative	HARE
Ram of the zodiac	ARIES
Region	AREA
Roads that often cross aves	STS
Round specks	DOTS
Rural hotel	INN
Separate into stacks	SORT
Ships' poles	MASTS
Showed again on TV	RERAN
Siamese or Persian pets	CATS
Spanish ''good-bye''	ADIOS
Sulks	MOPES
Thaw	MELT
Tie up, as a boat	MOOR
Toward sunset	WEST
Trumpets and bugles	HORNS
Two hours before noon	TEN
Viewing wildlife in Africa, perhaps	ONSAFARI
Water ridden by a surfer	WAVE
West Point students	CADETS
Yellowish-brown lion color	TAWNY
__ and crafts	ARTS
__ of two evils	LESSER