Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - Dec 27, 2014

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - Dec 27, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Verbe irrégulier de base''	ETRE
A ton	OCEANS
Automotive introduction of 1968	HOTWHEELS
Bargaining topics	PLEAS
Bearing	RELEVANCY
Began damage control, perhaps	APOLOGIZED
Blocks or tops	TOYS
Brand that promotes its RESIDON'T	PAM
Buffer material	EMERY
Choirboys, frequently	ALTOS
Cocoa __	BEACH
Dhaka's region	BENGAL
Didn't give up	KEPT
Double-digit display	VSIGN
Downloadable sci-fi audio mag	ESCAPEPOD
Dungeons & Dragons danger	TRAP
Email program named for a Pulitzer author	EUDORA
Evasive maneuver of a sort	CRASHDIVE
Excuse, at times	LIE
Expression of scorn	HEH
Far reaches	EDGES
First tropical storm after the name list is used up	ALPHA
Flip-flop alternative	ESPADRILLE
Game with racks	STAGS
Get together with	AGREEUPON
Gives up	BAGSIT
Gogol title diarist	MADMAN
Habitués, so to speak	RATS
Had trouble standing	HATED
Hay catcher, often	TINE
Hillary campaign focus	EVEREST
Hub	EPICENTER
Intent	RAPT
Jack Bauer's wife on ''24''	TERI
Kevlar kitchen product	MITT
Labor leader	ELL

Clue	Answer
Like some accounts	ORAL
Locale of a perennial best-seller set in 1922	WESTEGG
Lose, as a shadow	ELUDE
Mason's mortar layers	BEDS
More than fancy	LOVE
Movement shorthand	LIB
Nicholson, in ''About Schmidt''	RVER
Numbers can be read in it	TORAH
One to avoid	OGRE
Opposite of philo-	MISO
Org. behind the AirNOW app	EPA
Pair from ''Glee'' that hit #1	EPS
Pass out	DISTRIBUTE
Patchwork software	HACK
Physicist made a count by Napoleon	VOLTA
Private practice	DRILL
Prowler	SNEAK
Pulled (down)	TORE
Rock garden grower	ALOE
Say ''Hah!'', say	GLOAT
Seagram's product	GINGERALE
Sherwin-Williams green paint color	KOIPOND
Skye Terrier's origin	HEBRIDES
Stroller-rental site	ZOO
Style	VEIN
Target, e.g	CHAINSTORE
The sun, eventually	REDGIANT
The world's tallest one is in Casablanca	MINARET
Thin margins	NOSES
Tops in tallness?	LAMEST
Vegan pick-me-ups	SOYLATTES
Verb of the Bard	SEEST
Weaves and waves	DOS
Word from the Latin for ''dignitary''	PRIMATE
Word seen twice on the UN roster	ARAB
__ card	SIM