Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Sep 28, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Sep 28, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Absolutely!''	SURE
''Odyssey'' poet	HOMER
''Stand up and say yea or nay''	RISETOVOTESIR
''They beat us''	WELOST
Adore to excess	DOTE
Affleck film of 2012	ARGO
All tied up	EVEN
Aroma	ODOR
Arrow launcher	BOW
Arrow Shirt rival	IZOD
Auger or drill	BORER
Avoid work	SHIRK
Bit of theater litter	STUB
Bowling-lane button	RESET
Buttonhole, for instance	SLIT
Cabbage concoction	SLAW
Car parker	VALET
Cat-food flavor	TUNA
Chain with a cat/dog logo	PETCO
Chinese zodiac beast	PIG
Cockpit announcement	ETA
Cold-shoulders	SHUNS
Computer data	FILES
Computer fixers	TECHS
Convent attire	HABIT
Copacabana city	RIO
Covers fully	COATS
Crazes	MANIAS
Darth of sci-fi	VADER
Deceives, so to speak	SNOWS
Defiant refusal	NEVER
Deflates with a pin	POPS
Didn't avoid	FACED
Distance runner	MILER
Dwelt	LIVED
Earthy colors	OCHERS
Egg on	GOAD
Election time	NOVEMBER
Embellish	ORNAMENT
Ending indicating residency	ITE
Ending meaning ''merchandise''	WARE
Engine parts	PUSHRODS
Euro fractions	CENTS
Expenditures	COSTS
Fallen Russian orbiter	MIR
Feature of some oranges	NAVEL
Felt nostalgic	PINED
Female whale	COW
Fierce competitors	TIGERS
Fight off	REPEL
Fighting it out	ATWAR
First TV appearance	TUBEDEBUT
Flag down	HAIL
Flag maker Ross	BETSY
Flowed back	EBBED
Flying Pan	PETER
Forest rangers' worries	FIRES
Frat letters	PHIS
Frees (of)	RIDS
Goof up	ERR
Got wind of	HEARD
Great expectations	HOPE
Greek letter lover's comment	IPREFERPI
Guiding light	POLESTAR
Halloween decorations	BATS
Hand-holding events	SEANCES
Hefty horn	TUBA
Help in a holdup	ABET
Horatian work	ODE
Hurts badly	MAIMS
In support of	FOR
Inclined (to)	PRONE
Inexperienced	RAW
Informal denial	NAH
It's west of Afghanistan	IRAN
Jockey's ride	MOUNT
Keaton of ''Annie Hall''	DIANE
Large parrot	MACAW
Lawyers' org	ABA
Lipstick mishap	SMEAR
Long (for)	ACHE
Long lock of hair	TRESS
Manscript changes	EDITS
Map detail	INSET
Med. scans	MRIS
Metallic sound	CLANK
Military chaplain	PADRE
Move swiftly	RACE
Not many	AFEW
Of birds	AVIAN
Old West transport	STAGE
Old-school maxim hater's cry	EGADANADAGE
On the road	AWAY
Overlord, for D-day	CODENAME
Pack rat	SAVER
Parroted	APED
Passover meal	SEDER
Pint-sized	WEE
Plain to see	OVERT
Pocket breads	PITAS
Prehistoric	OLD
Pringles competitor	LAYS
Pulled ahead	DRAWNONWARD
Reduced to rubble	RAZED
Remark from one awed by generators	SOMANYDYNAMOS
Remorseful feeling	SHAME
Rich cake	TORTE
Risky business, for short	SPEC
Roddick of tennis	ANDY
Run easily	LOPE
Rural structure	SILO
Saintly aura	HALO
Saw socially	DATED
Scattered about	SOWED
Schedule letters	TBA
School session	TERM
Shady area	ARBOR
Skylit lobbies	ATRIA
Small bill	ONE
Smash, as a door	BASHIN
Sob stories	SADTALES
Some crew-team trophies	OARS
Sonata finale, often	CODA
Star in Cygnus	DENEB
Superlative prefix	UBER
Supplies with new hands	REDEALS
Sushi condiment	WASABI
Tag declaration	NOTIT
The Bard's river	AVON
Tones down	MUTES
Trades	SWAPS
Truth in Lending stat	APR
Two ways to get cash	BORROWORROB
VCR successor	TIVO
Walk through a stream	WADE
Wannabe stereo owner's lament	IFIHADAHIFI
Was lost in thought	MUSED
Water carrier	PIPE
What Yosemite Sam calls Bugs	VARMINT
Win the favor of	ENDEAR
Wine-list presenter	STEWARD
Wisdom tooth, for one	MOLAR
Wise people	SAGES
Wunderkind	PHENOM
Zillions	TONS
__ a clue (is lost)	HASNT