Newsday.com - Aug 19 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Newsday.com - Aug 19 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

Clues	Answers
''Keep it'' notation	STET
''Pass''	NOBID
10-Grammy blues rocker	RAITT
African scavengers	HYENAS
Author of ''The Colonel and Little Missie''	LARRYMCMURTRY
Bass cousin	CELLO
Bat Appreciation Mo	OCT
Become unstable, as an orbit	DECAY
Big digs	ESTATE
Brief confirmation	ITIS
Came by	GOT
Cascades peak	SHASTA
Company with a stag logo	DEERE
Composer Stravinsky	IGOR
Constellation occupation	HUNTER
Covert meeting	TRYST
Creative knack	ART
Debt payee	CREDITOR
Defames	SMEARS
Easy runs	TROTS
Eel eggs	ROE
Ending for free or fan	DOM
Escalator developer	OTIS
Evil	BADNESS
Fantastical	UNREAL
Final word	SAYSO
First-in-line's line	IMNEXT
Former NBC owner	RCA
GPS reading	ENE
Headphone descriptor	INEAR
Horn blasts	TOOTS
Hubbub	DIN
Improv gear	MIKE
In a sly way	CAGILY
Intersected	MET
It means ''merchandise''	WARE
Latter-day contact request	TEXTME
Marine predators	ORCAS
Math book illustration	DIAGRAM
Mirthful	MERRY
Misstep	ERROR
Mount for Quixote's pal	ASS
Mr. Spock, in part	HUMAN
Mrs. Flintstone	WILMA
Much of Micronesia	ATOLLS
Obliterate	ERASE
On a road trip	AWAY
One of the first two ''American superstars,'' per 34 Across' book	ANNIEOAKLEY
One of the first two ''American superstars,'' per 34 Across' book	BUFFALOBILL
Parliament Hill city	OTTAWA
Pasta preference	ALDENTE
Prone to wearing	EROSIVE
Provides for permanently	ENDOWS
Rankle	ANNOY
Red wine grape	MERLOT
Red wine, for short	CAB
Rome's river	TIBER
Separate into categories	ASSORT
Sked stat	ETD
Smokestack-like	SOOTY
Something to do	ACTIVITY
Stockpile	AMASS
Synchronize	ATTUNE
Telephone trio	MNO
TV promo promise	ALLNEW
UK county	SHIRE
Ultimate proof	ACIDTEST
Unleash	LETLOOSE
Video device	CAM
Way off	AFAR
What a mechanic might fix	SETFEE
Whom a short-story award is named for	OHENRY