Newsday.com - Aug 26 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com Puzzle - August 26 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''No wager''	IPASS
Actor Neeson	LIAM
Actor Penn or Connery	SEAN
Actress Stone or Thompson	EMMA
Adversities	WOES
All __ (fully attentive)	EARS
Any assistant	AIDE
Author Austen	JANE
Author Truman	CAPOTE
Away from the office	OUT
Basketball's contents	AIR
Be a debunker	EXPLODETHEMYTH
Bunch of sheep	HERD
Cake decorator	ICER
CIO's union partner	AFL
Common urban tree	ELM
Congregation's affirmation	AMEN
Courage	METTLE
Cow complaint	MOO
Cry of triumph	TADA
Daughter, for one	CHILD
December song	CAROL
Degs. in finance	MBAS
Dental exam image	XRAY
Doing nothing	IDLE
Drop feathers	MOLT
Espionage org	CIA
Establish a new standard	SMASHTHERECORD
Even if, in verse	THO
Feline treat	CATNIP
Furious	IRATE
Gator's cousin	CROC
Gentle, as zoo animals	TAME
Gold purity measure	KARAT
Gorilla or chimp	APE
Have a meal	EAT
Hotel room cleaners	MAIDS
In itself	PERSE
Iraq neighbor	SYRIA
Johnny who played Willy Wonka	DEPP
Keep your __ on (watch)	EYES
Lasting mark	SCAR
Mock-denial question	WHOME
Moral climate	ETHOS
Observed	SAW
Of bad character	EVIL
Online auctioneer	EBAY
Oscar actor Kevin	KLINE
Pan on a stove	SKILLET
Plant's underground part	ROOT
Played CDs at a party	DJED
President in 2015	OBAMA
Princes, for instance	SONS
Prod with a finger	POKE
Rodeo bull	BRAHMA
Roof overhang	EAVE
Sell from a soda machine, say	VEND
Singer Clapton	ERIC
Sound of satisfaction	AAH
Southwestern Native Americans	APACHES
Squad of best players	ATEAM
Star's dealmaker	AGENT
Succeed in decryption	Crackthecode
Tell what just happened	BREAKTHENEWS
Three-ingredient sandwich, for short	BLT
Three-layer cookie	OREO
Tiny bit	TAD
Tiny bit	IOTA
To date	ASYET
Tropical island inlet	LAGOON
Typical TV drama length	HOUR
Urban area, briefly	METRO
Useful	OFHELP
Very hard to find	RARE
Vietnam neighbor	LAOS
Walking speeds	PACES
Winter hours in DC	EST
__ and kicking	ALIVE