Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Jul 18, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Jul 18, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Checkmate''	YOULOSE
Applications	USES
Awesome	EPIC
Bakery buy	ECLAIRS
Be able to spare	AFFORD
Beast on Canberra coins	EMU
Beat rhythmically	PULSATE
Beaufort scale category	GALE
Big enchilada	BOSS
Brief vow	IDO
Challenger	FOE
Cool place to live	IGLOO
Cote quote	BAA
Cultural symbol	ICON
Dashboard button	DEFOG
Deposit	PAYIN
Do some pressing	URGE
English ivy and coleus	FOLIAGEPLANTS
Fabric made from cellulose	RAYON
Fairy-tale villain ''starting'' the longest Across answers	GIANT
Festive function	GALA
First act	OPENER
First group to get invitations	ALIST
Flaky	ODD
Galoot	APE
Gifts from Mom and Dad	GENES
Glorifying lines	ODE
Good judgment	REASON
Hat removers, maybe	GUSTS
Hon	DEARIE
Illustrious	FAMED
Inkling	IDEA
Intention	END
Jell-O pudding flavoring	OREO
Leave off	OMIT
Mare's-nest	MESS
Movie mentor with convoluted syntax	YODA
Much of the Mongol Empire	GOBI
Mushroom pests	GNATS
Name on the sheet music of '' 'S Wonderful''	IRA
Nine-symbol message	SOS
No-win situation	TIE
Note in a ''Sound of Music'' scale	FAR
Number on David Cameron's door	TEN
One-time towel, perhaps	RAG
Opening trattoria course	RISOTTO
Oral-care concern	GUMS
Palm product	DATE
Peace Nobelist right after Anwar and Menachem	TERESA
Perform perfectly	NAILIT
Periphery	RIM
Personal sensitivity	FEELINGS
Pixar products	FILMS
Ponies up	ANTES
Reddish brown	RUST
Regard	SEE
Rooster topper	COMB
Rudely terse	CURT
Schwab competitor	ETRADE
Set off	IGNITED
Shape of some speakers	CUBE
Skilled workmanship	ART
Southwestern grassland	LLANO
Start of a quotable boast	ICAME
Suffragist Stanton's colleague	MOTT
Symbol of December	YULELOG
Team with a leprechaun mascot	FIGHTINGIRISH
Tech sch	INST
Then	IFSO
They drop the ball	FUMBLERS
Third of a quarter	MONTH
Tight-lipped	MUM
Tipped off	CUED
Toter on tour	ROADIE
Vein contents	ORE
Word from the wise	HINT
Word on a Ouija board	YES
__ Cruces, NM	LAS