Newsday.com Crossword Answer - Nov 18, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Solutions - Nov 18, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Absolutely!''	YES
''Speaking honestly . . .''	TOTELLTHETRUTH
''__ there be light''	LET
Annoying person	PEST
Appliances that cool: Abbr	ACS
Become ready to harvest	RIPEN
Beverages on tap	BEERS
Biblical garden	EDEN
Blacken on the barbecue	CHAR
Borscht veggie	BEET
Braid of hair	PLAIT
Brief confession	IDID
Call off a project	ENDIT
Camera glass	LENS
Cap-and-gown renters: Abbr	SRS
Cape Canaveral agcy	NASA
Casino machines	SLOTS
Chablis or claret	WINE
Chooses, with ''for''	OPTS
Competent	ABLE
Creme-filled cookie	OREO
Cruise-line stop	PORT
Drawer handle	KNOB
Dwelling	ABODE
Economic rise	UPTREND
Elbow's location	ARM
Embassy diplomat	ATTACHE
Ensnare	TRAP
Fail to mention	OMIT
Family men	DADS
Fan-club favorite	IDOL
Female choir voice	ALTO
Flow with force	GUSH
Gift-box decoration	BOW
Goes yachting	SAILS
Head-moving assents	NODS
High-society group	ELITE
In shreds	TORN
In __ of (replacing)	LIEU
Long, heroic story	EPIC
Lower-leg joints	ANKLES
Makes a wager	BETS
Most high schoolers	TEENS
Nautical ''Help!''	SOS
Nearby	CLOSE
Needle hole	EYE
Office neckwear	TIE
Performer's part	ROLE
Person from Stockholm	SWEDE
Piece of fabric	CLOTH
Poet's ''before''	ERE
Poisonous snakes	ASPS
Resigning employee's courtesy	TWOWEEKSNOTICE
Saudi, for one	ARAB
Saw socially	DATED
Sheep's coat	FLEECE
Short footraces	DASHES
Show concern	CARE
Skirt's sewed line	HEM
Skyscraper or warehouse: Abbr	BLDG
Smooch	KISS
Soft ''Hey!''	PSST
Speck of dust	MOTE
Spritelike	ELFIN
Stand-up performer	COMIC
Started a poker pot	ANTED
Sugary	SWEET
Summer clock setting in Pa	EDT
The vowels	AEIOU
Tops with icing	FROSTS
Underground plant part	ROOT
What thumb-twiddlers have	TOOMUCHFREETIME
Wide belt	SASH
Word of warning	DONT
__ by (obey)	ABIDE
__ Moines, IA	DES
__ of the time (now and then)	SOME
__ Vegas, NV	LAS