Newsday.com - August 2 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com Puzzle - Aug 2 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Hush!''	BESILENT
''I'm not impressed''	MEH
''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' author	ODELL
''Look what I did!''	TADA
''Pardon me . . .''	AHEM
''Top Chef'' host Lakshmi	PADMA
''__ my watch!''	NOTON
'40s cast album pioneer	DECCA
21-time nomination for Streep	OSCAR
Absolut alternative	STOLI
Acquire, as a debt	INCUR
Allow to join	ADMIT
Anxious one	WORRIER
Any Brownie Scout	GIRL
Any day now	SOON
Approaches	DRAWSNEAR
Apt to wander	NOMADIC
Athlete with income	PRO
Bamboo-eating beast	PANDA
Bassoon's concert neighbor	OBOE
Befitting a monarch	REGAL
Big batteries	DCELLS
Big fights	MELEES
Big formal party	GALA
Body in a belt	ASTEROID
Bracing beverage	TONIC
Brief fanaticism	MANIA
Broody music genre	EMO
Canine comment	ARF
Chilling	ONICE
City near Snowmass	ASPEN
Clothing label annoyance	ITCH
Cold War-era letters	USSR
Commotion	ADO
Consecutive letters in the eight longest answers, eight different ways	NEWS
Corporate ''et al.''	ANDCO
Couldn't stand	HATED
Courtroom statement	PLEA
Crank (up)	AMP
Curator's deg., often	MFA
Decide to contribute	GOIN
Deserve	MERIT
Did some home work	ROOFED
Direction for batters	STIR
Duckling's dad	DRAKE
Edsel-era prez	IKE
Empty fully	DRAIN
Eventually become	ENDUP
Extreme brats	TERRORS
Fashion sense	STYLE
Film sequel title phrase	SONOF
Fine sweater material	ANGORA
Fish eggs	ROE
Flamingo, in Wonderland croquet	MALLET
Fly traps	WEBS
Former film-biz giant	KODAK
Former teen	ADULT
Founder of Methodism	JOHNWESLEY
Francisco's ''fried''	FRITO
Genesis Biblical tower	BABEL
Good, in Spanish class	BUENO
Hard-sell urging	ACTNOW
Heaps	TONS
Hogwarts Potions professor	SNAPE
Homes for hens	COOPS
Hotel for hounds	KENNEL
House overhangs	EAVES
In a way	OFSORTS
In the bag	ALLSEWNUP
Influence, so to speak	CLOUT
Intentions	AIMS
Iron wear	RUST
Isolate from others	SILO
Japanese film genre	ANIME
Just	ONLY
Kind of thing	ILK
L.A. district, for short	NOHO
Lasting marks	SCARS
Limits of Liverpool	ELLS
Marcus who cofounded MGM	LOEW
Maximally	ATMOST
Maze instruction	ENTER
Midmonth day	IDES
Milking machine attachments	UDDERS
Much more than moisten	SOAK
NFL three-pointers	FGS
Not as important	LESSER
Novelist Jong	ERICA
Old intro to guys	DEARSIRS
One of a train station pair	DOWNESCALATOR
Online crafts store	ETSY
Oracle of __ (Warren Buffett)	OMAHA
Paper Mate competitor	BIC
Penn pal	TELLER
Pictures you can click	ICONS
Place to swim	POND
Play with like a kitten	PAWAT
Poetry competition	SLAM
Pointless	OFNOUSE
Political campaign	RACE
Potatoey appetizers	SKINS
Practice punching	SPAR
Prefix for system	ECO
Puts no effort into, with ''off''	TOSSES
Renege on a promise	BREAKONESWORD
Revises or revisions	EDITS
Root vegetable	TURNIP
Rowboat implement	OAR
Rubber-__ (approve unquestioningly)	STAMP
Sailing hazards	REEFS
Sculpture, theater, dance, . .	ARTS
Shops for sandwiches	DELIS
Signs of spring	BUDS
Signs of winter	SNOWS
Sleepwear, for short	PJS
Small songbird	WREN
Soccer target	NET
Some nest eggs, for short	IRAS
Something added to gasoline	ODOR
Something to stick with	PASTE
Soother in lotions	ALOE
Squealer	RAT
State of comfort	EASE
Staying power	STAMINA
Steadfast	UNSWERVING
Stuck (to)	ADHERED
Tablet debut of 2010	IPAD
Take care of	SEETO
Temporary acquisition	RENTAL
Thick-skinned herbivore	RHINO
Ties, blazers, etc	MENSWARDROBE
Tool and __ company	DIE
Tools with teeth	RAKES
Toughen, as to hardship	INURE
Toy train sound	TOOT
Triumphant outburst	IWON
Turner or Danson	TED
Two less than ''tres''	UNO
Voicemails, for instance: Abbr	MSGS
What a speaker wants you to remember	TAKEAWAY
Where eagles fly	SKY
Wild equines	ASSES
Winter weather	SLEET
WWW addresses	URLS
Yoga accessory	MAT
You, in ''Hamlet''	THINEOWNSELF