Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Nov 16, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Nov 16, 2014

Clue	Answer
''America's Got Talent'' network	NBC
''Count me in!''	IMTHERE
''Have a sample''	TASTEIT
''Othello'' role	IAGO
'60s fashion	MINISKIRT
48 Across, for instance	TREE
Ab's neighbor	PEC
Ancient Andean	INCA
Apt. coolers	ACS
Ask for divine guidance	PRAY
Astronaut Collins	EILEEN
Author Wharton	EDITH
Became frayed	WORE
Beef designation	PRIME
Berates	RANTSAT
Blossom buzzer	BEE
Breakfast pastry	SCONE
Brings to a close	ENDS
Briny expanse	SEA
British nobles	DUKES
Brownish gray	TAUPE
Bylaws, briefly	REGS
Cash drawer	TILL
Cellphone button	SEND
Chore	TASK
Cloaked in secrecy	VEILED
Clutter-free	NEAT
CNN founder	TURNER
Connecting points	NODES
Cook's collection	PANS
Creative notion	IDEA
Current measurer	AMMETER
D-backs, on scoreboards	ARI
Dark movie genre	NOIR
Desertlike	ARID
Dine at a friend's house	EATOVER
Disney head	IGER
Driver's license datum	SEX
Drought ender	RAINFALL
Embroidered hole	EYELET
Employee badge	IDCARD
Evolutionary mystery	MISSINGLINK
Explosion	BLAST
Extremity	TIP
Federal benefits issuer: Abbr	SSA
Figure of speech	IDIOM
Final: Abbr	ULT
Formal order	DECREE
Foul mood	SNIT
Four qts	GAL
Fruit covers	RINDS
Fundamental facts	BASICS
Future stallions	COLTS
Gangster's weapon	GAT
Garlicky dressing	AIOLI
George III and Edward VIII	BRITISHKINGS
Get in the game, perhaps	ANTE
Glossy fabric	SATIN
Goes on to say	ADDS
Graph line	AXIS
Healthful, in product names	NUTRI
HMO members	DRS
Houston-to-Chicago dir	NNE
How fries are fried	INOIL
Hunter's garb, for short	CAMO
Insistent exclamation	ICANSO
Intend	MEAN
Jack toppers, in solitaire	TENS
Japanese religion	SHINTO
Jubilation	HIGHSPIRITS
Land in ''la mer''	ILE
Leafy lunch	SALAD
List-shortening abbr	ETAL
Located rearward	HIND
Loses color	FADES
Lost color	PALED
Low-ranking sailor	DECKHAND
Martian or Venusian	ALIEN
Maxim	ADAGE
Memorization method	ROTE
Mosquito-bite reaction	ITCH
Move like molasses	OOZE
Narrow gap	SLIT
Not in the office	OUT
Not much of a choice	SLIMPICKINGS
Not slouching	ERECT
Novelist Calvino	ITALO
One from Waco	TEXAN
Openwork fabric	MESH
Peach __ (dessert)	MELBA
Philadelphia-area hero	HOAGIE
Piedmont wine area	ASTI
Plane or pliers	TOOL
Potential juror	CITIZEN
Precise	EXACT
Proof of ownership	TITLE
Punctual	ONTIME
Punctual	PROMPT
Puts a strain on	TAXES
Quash	VETO
Quick drive	SPIN
Rather close	WITHINSIGHT
Religious belief	TENET
Satisfied sounds	AHS
Set of tools	KIT
Short letter	NOTE
Short-tempered	TESTY
Sky safety org	FAA
Small, for short	LIL
Snake-dancing people	HOPI
Spider web, essentially	TRAP
Sports-bar screen	TVSET
Stand out in a crowd	SHINE
Stand up	ARISE
Stands in a studio	EASELS
Star bestower	FILMCRITIC
Start of a baseball game	FIRSTINNING
Storekeeper's stock: Abbr	INV
Story surprise	TWIST
Storytelling specialists	LIARS
Subsidiary building	ANNEX
Suffix for novel	IST
Suite spot	HOTEL
Sunscreen letters	SPF
Support column	PILLAR
Surreptitious sound	PSST
Symbol of two states	ELM
Symbols of six states	OAKS
Theater divider	AISLE
Thin puff	WISP
Timetable, for short	SKED
Tip off	TELL
Trade org	ASSN
Twinge	PANG
Underwater sport	SKINDIVING
Unifying concepts	THEMES
Unlawful activity	CRIME
Vexes	IRKS
Wading bird	EGRET
Wear a grin	SMILE
What American Plan includes	MEALS
Where the Ganges flows	INDIA
Whittle (down)	PARE
Wiped off	ERASED
With regret	SADLY
__ cotta	TERRA