Newsday.com - Aug 22 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Newsday.com - Aug 22 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
''Bird'' prefix	AVI
''Family Guy'' mom	LOIS
''Fiery'' gemstone	OPAL
''Gone With the Wind'' surname	OHARA
''It ain't over. . .'' catching great	BERRA
''Lohengrin'' composer	WAGNER
''None of the above'' option	OTHER
''Star Wars'' princess	LEIA
''Uh-uh''	NAH
A-listers	ELITE
A-listers	BIGNAMES
Abrupt change	QUANTUMJUMP
Academic article postscripts	ENDNOTES
Adore to excess	DOTE
Allied (with)	SIDED
Apple cofounder Wozniak	STEVE
Apportion, with ''out''	METE
At the apex of	ATOP
Atlas, for instance	TITAN
ATM user's input	ACCT
Awareness raiser on social media	SIGNALBOOST
Barber's obstacle	EAR
Bedeviled	PESTERED
Big Apple's Bravest, briefly	FDNY
Bit of a blossom	PETAL
Bone-dry	ARID
Boomer's kid	XER
Brazilian dance	SAMBA
Bring cheer to	ELATE
Car sticker no	MSRP
Cartographic speck	ISLE
Casting slots	ROLES
Casual discussions	CHATS
Celestial bear	URSA
Certain cordless vacuums	ROBOTS
Chiding sounds	TSKS
Cities with docks	PORTS
Cluster of grass	CLUMP
Coils in sheds	HOSES
Combines, as resources	POOLS
Compose, as prose	WRITE
Creamy cheese	BRIE
Daughter of Lear	REGAN
Derisive shout	JEER
Destroy slowly	ERODE
Do not exist	ARENT
Don't allow	DENY
Drains of energy	SAPS
Drill (into)	BORE
Drizzles or downpours	RAINS
Egg-timer sound	DING
Embattled	BESET
Embedded decoration	INLAY
ER imperative	STAT
Ethanol source	CORN
Exercises at a bar	CHINS
Eyed rudely	LEEREDAT
For example	SAY
Former ruler of 2 Down	SHAH
Fountain serving	SODA
Fowl territories	HENCOOPS
Gain admission	GOIN
Galileo, by birth	PISAN
Gentle touch	CARESS
Give birth to	BEGET
Half of dodeca-	HEXA
Harms severely	MAIMS
Hauled (away)	CARTED
In the future	AHEAD
Inherently	PERSE
Jacob's twin	ESAU
Jam-packed	DENSE
JP Morgan creation	USSTEEL
Keyed in	TYPED
Knock-down-drag-out	MELEE
Left in a hurry	BOLTED
Literary luminary	LION
Little Pigs' antagonist	WOLF
Looks to be	SEEMS
Lose energy	SAG
Make known	AIR
Makes keener	HONES
Mao successor	DENG
Marquee names	STARS
Matching glove	MATE
More adorable	CUTER
Move effortlessly	COAST
Much of bulk mail	ADS
Mushroom seed	SPORE
Narrow valleys	GLENS
News for an accountant	TAXINCREASE
Objective of some diets	WEIGHTGAIN
Official emblems	SEALS
Origami bird	SWAN
Performance reward	MERITRAISE
Persian Gulf nation	OMAN
Phase of a plan	STEP
Phony coin	SLUG
Plan again, as a strategy	REMAP
Portfolio manager's objective	ASSETGROWTH
Pub's footrest	RAIL
Put up a stake	WAGER
Pythons' cousins	BOAS
Quick with puns, say	WITTY
Quipster	WAG
Rainbow shapes	ARCS
Ran in	ARRESTED
Rank below viscount	BARON
Repeat verbatim	QUOTE
Restriction removal, informally	DEREG
Ridicule	MOCK
Ring-shaped reef	ATOLL
Rode the rapids, perhaps	RAFTED
Scheming group	CABAL
Sculpt, as in scrimshaw	CARVE
Secret stockpile	CACHE
Shade of red	ROSE
Shade of red	CERISE
Shark filmers' enclosures	CAGES
Single-minded expert	NERD
Sketch out	PLAN
Slice of history	ERA
Soccer shout	OLE
Some libretto lines	ARIAS
Sore point	PEEVE
Sounded like	APED
Spirited mount	STEED
Steady guy	BEAU
Stretches across	SPANS
Supposedly cunning canines	FOXES
Teheran's land	IRAN
Trade-war tactic	TARIFFHIKE
Tupperware sounds	BURPS
Tuxedo accessory	BOWTIE
Two-toned crunchy treat	OREO
Unexcitable	STAID
Wartime strategy	TROOPSURGE
Waterfall	CATARACT
Web page ID	URL
Weightlifting exercises	CURLS
Went camping, say	SLEPTOUT
Where bills are stored	TILL
www.redcross.__	ORG
Yale athlete	ELI
Yosemite beast	ELK
[per the original]	SIC