Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Aug 20, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Aug 20, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Amscray!''	SCAT
''Certainly!''	YES
''Green'' beverage	TEA
''Six-pack'' muscles	ABS
Absconded with	STOLE
Allow	LET
Axed down	HEWED
Back of the neck	NAPE
Battery terminal	ANODE
Best-selling cookie	OREO
Big-ticket	PRICEY
Blockhead	TWIT
Brown seaweed	KELP
Budgetary excess	FAT
Cavalry weapon	SWORD
Closet pests	MOTHS
Comics caveman	ALLEYOOP
Customs tax	IMPOST
Dedicated verse	ODE
Did yard work	MOWED
Discards	JUNKS
Dismal	DREARY
Donald Duck nephew	DEWEY
Dracula's flying form	BAT
Earliest stage	ONSET
Excessively	TOO
Falcon's claws	TALONS
Fill with germs	INFECT
Find abominable	ABHOR
Formal promise	VOW
Gave a task to	ASSIGNED
Gets taller	GROWS
Hat worn by Indiana Jones	FEDORA
Historic times	ERAS
In a frenzy	AMOK
In favor of	FOR
In-flight info: Abbr	ETA
Indifferent	ALOOF
Is a conformist	FOLLOWSTHECROWD
Is a conformist	GOESWITHTHEFLOW
Is a conformist	DOESNTMAKEWAVES
It breaks every morning	DAY
Jam-packed	DENSE
Knight clothing	ARMOR
Like unswept hearths	ASHY
Made two-by-fours	SAWED
Make a gaffe	ERR
Movie's music	SCORE
One, to Juan	UNO
One-sided win	ROMP
Outbuildings	SHEDS
Paint crudely	DAUB
Paper Mate competitor	BIC
Pepsi rival	COKE
Peter Pan rival	JIF
Plea from the sea	SOS
Poetic ''before''	ERE
Product pitches	ADS
Prom partner	DATE
Put into action	USE
Quick tug	YANK
Religious doctrine	DOGMA
Royal-flush card	TEN
Shoe parts	HEELS
Shout of discovery	AHA
Slender candle	TAPER
State further	ADD
Stocking color	BEIGE
Strengthen, with ''up''	BEEF
Super Bowl org	NFL
Take on cargo	LADE
Temper, as metal	ANNEAL
The Big Apple, for short	NYC
Throws in chips	BETS
Two built for a bicycle	TIRES
Unwitting victim	STOOGE
Verbalize	SAY
Won every game	SWEPT