Newsday.com - Aug 5 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - August 5 2018 

Clues	Answers
''Army'' offspring	BRAT
''Attack, Fido!''	SICEM
''Closing Bell'' airer	CNBC
''Peter Pan'' dog	NANA
''Sure!''	YES
''That's what friends __ for''	ARE
''__ all good''	ITS
'Hood salutation	BRO
About 12,000 insect species	ANTS
About 350,000 insect species	BEETLES
About six trillion mi	LTYR
Adds while cooking	STIRSIN
Adopted, as a pet	TOOKIN
Any of the Florida Keys	ISLET
Appeals to	TEMPTS
Ares instigations	WARS
Armada craft	SHIP
At the apex of	ATOP
Attired for the office	INASUIT
Baby's first bed	CRIB
Backspace over, say	ERASE
Bank holding company (Washington Wizards and Capitals)	CAPITALONE
Best possible	IDEAL
Bibliography abbr	ETAL
Blood bank supply	SERUM
Botch something	ERR
Box spring supporter	SLAT
Broke off	ENDED
Brokerage firm (St. Louis Blues)	SCOTTRADE
Burden	ONUS
By __ of (owing to)	DINT
C.S. Lewis land	NARNIA
Camera type, for short	SLR
Camp David Accords signer	SADAT
Cartoonists' assistants	INKERS
Certain sandwich with Swiss	MELT
Character created by Pixar	TOON
Christmas carol	NOEL
Colorful aquarium swimmer	TETRA
Confused states	FOGS
Couric of TV news	KATIE
Cul-de-__	SAC
Disneyland shuttle	TRAM
Double-crosser	RAT
Drag (away)	TOW
Engineering school, for short	TECH
Ensnare	TRAP
Exploit to the extreme	MILK
Financial services giant (2006-2018, New Jersey Devils)	PRUDENTIAL
Financial services giant (Arizona State U.)	WELLSFARGO
First all-vegetable-oil shortening	CRISCO
Foes of the 65 Across	ROMANS
Forest Whitaker Oscar role	IDIAMIN
Frequent European erupter	ETNA
Fruit-beverage maker (Tampa Bay 131 Across)	TROPICANA
Full of zeal	ARDENT
Fuss	ADO
Galaxy Tab alternative	IPAD
Geese formation	VEE
Gentle	MILD
German forebears	TEUTONS
Get to volunteer	ENLIST
Get weepy	CRY
How '90s digital encyclopedias were bought	ONCD
How notebook paper is printed	LINED
Improv performer	COMIC
In the past	ONCE
Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)	PROGRESSIVE
Insurance seller (Columbus Blue Jackets)	NATIONWIDE
It first met in 1789	SENATE
Jazz great Fitzgerald	ELLA
Jokester's prod	GETIT
Junction points	NODES
Keats or Coleridge	ODIST
Left Coast state, informally	CALI
Links standard	PAR
Long-legged bird	STILT
Major league hitters	BATSMEN
Mambo king Puente	TITO
Manner of walking	GAIT
Manners of running	TROTS
Memorandum	NOTE
Metaphor for intrigue	WEB
Middle of the fourth century	CCCLI
Mongolian desert	GOBI
Monogram components: Abbr	INITS
More high-strung	TAUTER
Most minimal amount	IOTA
Needing some body work	DENTED
Neither fish __ fowl	NOR
Noteworthy periods	ERAS
Novelist Pasternak	BORIS
One of Marvel's original Avengers	THOR
Online commerce	ETAIL
Online lender (Cleveland Cavaliers)	QUICKENLOANS
Page for website help	FAQ
Piece of okra	POD
Pirate portrayer in ''The Princess Bride''	ELWES
Place for filming	SET
Place with thermal waters	SPA
Playing a role	ACTING
Presidential nickname	CAL
Presses, as dresses	IRONS
Prone to mischief making	ANTIC
Pub serving	ALE
Pub vessel	STEIN
Raced down slopes	SKIED
Renewable energy source	SUN
River known for its banks	SEINE
Roaring group	PRIDE
Salon sounds	SNIPS
Saturn or Jupiter	GOD
See 100 Across	RAYS
See 17 Across	NIN
Shape of a smile	ARC
Show shock	GASP
Slight fight	SPAT
Smeltery refuse	DROSS
Southwestern tie	BOLO
Sport with clay pigeons	SKEET
Steer catcher	LASSO
Sugarloaf locale	RIO
Tamed, for a cowpoke	RIDEABLE
Telecommunications company (Seattle Seahawks)	CENTURYLINK
Test for coll. seniors	GRE
Theme of the puzzle	NAMINGRIGHTS
Touches up, as text	EMENDS
Toys with tails	KITES
Typical homework assignment	READING
UFO crew	ETS
Unable to look away	STARING
Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer	LIN
Vouch for	ATTESTTO
Well-worn pencil	STUB
What ''p'' means to pianists	SOFTLY
What you eat	DIET
What's turned for much 29 Down	PAGES
With 9 Down, French diarist	ANAIS
Without peer	ALONE
Word of warning	DONT
Word of warning	STOP
Yankee great Jeter	DEREK
__ Arbor, MI	ANN
__ to go (gung-ho)	RARIN
__'-shanter	TAMO
__-Xer (boomer's kid)	GEN