Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Oct 05, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Oct 05, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Back to the Future'' lead role	MARTYMCFLY
''Fahrenheit 451'' author	RAYBRADBURY
''Mamma Mia!'' foursome	ABBA
''On the Waterfront'' lead role	TERRYMALLOY
''Roots'' writer	HALEY
''The King and I'' setting	SIAM
''Too,'' to ''two''	HOMONYM
3 Down selections	ARIAS
About six trillion mi	LTYR
Actor Neeson	LIAM
Ad-__ (improvises)	LIBS
Adjusts, as tires	REALIGNS
Air of mystery	AURA
Allan-__ (Robin Hood pal)	ADALE
Any 102 Across tune	OLDIE
Aspirations	GOALS
Aussie birds	EMUS
Bearded actor Woolley	MONTY
Before long, in a poem	ANON
Beseeched	PRAYED
Braying beasts	ASSES
Busey who portrayed 102 Across	GARY
Butterlike	OILY
Car shaft	AXLE
Cardiology concern	AORTA
Charged atoms	IONS
Civic service club	LIONS
Civil War historian	FOOTE
Coming right up	NEXT
Considers	DEEMS
Cover completely	ENCASE
Cube creator	RUBIK
Defeat, à la Oakley	OUTSHOOT
Devoid of vegetation	BARREN
Disembark	GOASHORE
Disney mermaid	ARIEL
Doggy-biscuit shape	BONE
Drop off	ABATE
Dude	BRO
Erratic	JERKY
Exchanged witticisms	BANTERED
Exited	LEFT
Feel bad for	PITY
Female turkeys	HENS
Fictional governess	EYRE
Film choreographer Berkeley	BUSBY
First 007 film	DRNO
Fossil preserver	AMBER
Fragrance	ODOR
Friend in the 'hood	HOMIE
Full of froth	SUDSY
Gallery event	ARTSHOW
Gathers dust	SITS
Good score for a duffer	BOGEY
Got sidetracked	STRAYED
Hard to come by	RARE
Has the nerve	DARES
Heron cousin	EGRET
HS exams	PSATS
Hymn instrument	ORGAN
Ill-tempered	SURLY
In the past	AGO
Industrious ones	DOERS
Inert gas	NEON
Jazz genre	BLUES
Justice Kagan appointer	OBAMA
Large group	ARMY
London high-rent district	MAYFAIR
Make eyes at	OGLE
Makes public	BARES
Many a newspaper	DAILY
Measuring device	GAUGE
Med. scan	EEG
Mideast airline	ELAL
Misfortunes	ILLS
Model-plane wood	BALSA
Monkey business	PRANKS
Motown Records founder	BERRYGORDY
Murphy of ''Shrek''	EDDIE
Nautical ''Halt!''	AVAST
Newcastle's river	TYNE
Nothing more than	ONLY
Novelist McMurtry	LARRY
Obliterate	ERASE
Olympic gymnast Korbut	OLGA
One of two bandleader siblings	JIMMYDORSEY
One of two bandleader siblings	TOMMYDORSEY
Onetime ''60 Minutes'' regular	ANDYROONEY
Outfielder who became an evangelist	BILLYSUNDAY
Paddled	ROWED
Paramedic: Abbr	EMT
Patron saint of Norway	OLAV
Physicist Sakharov	ANDREI
Presidential caucus state	IOWA
Pretty tall	SIXEIGHT
Put to rest	ALLAY
Rat Pack name	SAMMY
Really impress	DAZZLE
Religious belief	FAITH
Renders creatively	STYLIZES
River of Russia	URAL
Roamer	NOMAD
Rock-music pioneer	BUDDYHOLLY
Rooftop spinner	VANE
Ruckus	DIN
Scientific study	OLOGY
Second-generation reggae artist	ZIGGYMARLEY
Seeing red	IRATE
Singer Frankie or Cleo	LAINE
Singer Tori	AMOS
Single statistic	DATUM
Sixth word of ''A Tale of Two Cities''	TIMES
Societal norms	MORES
Spring zodiac sign	ARIES
Stadium seating for VIPs	SKYBOXES
Steed feeder	NOSEBAG
Stores securely	STOWS
Straw hat	BOATER
Succulent plants	ALOES
Sultan's wives	HAREM
Tallow source	SUET
Tampers with	RIGS
Tentative negative	MAYBENOT
Three, to Marie	TROIS
Tic-tac-toe win	OOO
Tickles pink	THRILLS
Toll roads	PIKES
Trash-bag closer	TIE
Trifled	TOYED
Ulla in ''The Producers''	UMA
Underhanded	SLY
US acquisition of 1898	GUAM
Utters impulsively	BLURTS
Verdi masterwork	AIDA
Very long time	AGES
Wharf	PIER
With skill	ABLY
Word-game pieces	TILES
Worship from __	AFAR
Wow	AWE
Zigzag	WEAVE
__ out a victory (barely wins)	EKES