Newsday.com - Aug 15 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Newsday.com - Aug 15 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
''Darn it!''	DRAT
''Darn it!''	HECK
''Mona Lisa'' home	PARIS
''So what __ is new?''	ELSE
''What a shame!''	AWGEE
'70s 007	MOORE
'70s den innovation	VCR
Aesopian racer	HARE
Annual Pamplona runners	TOROS
Assist feloniously	ABET
Avoid skillfully	ELUDE
Avoid skillfully	DODGE
Awestruck	AGOG
Backs of necks	NAPES
Bagel's sweeter alternative	DANISH
Barbecue coatings	RUBS
Bit of heredity	GENE
Bread for 49ers	SOURDOUGH
Brown photo tone	SEPIA
Canine named Claude, perhaps	POODLE
Capture suddenly	SNARE
Carol contraction	TIS
Carry by truck	HAUL
Cause of 5 Down erosion	TIDE
Central element	HEART
Change in a pocket	COINS
Choo-choo sound	CHUG
Circuitous	ROUNDABOUT
Classico competitor	RAGU
Communicating	INTOUCH
Compote candidates	PEARS
Concrete construction	ROAD
Confirmation, e.g	RITE
Connecting	BETWEEN
Corporate shakeup, for short	REORG
D-Mark successor	EURO
Disconnected	APART
Do not disturb	LETBE
Dual-power	ACDC
E-file org	IRS
Entered quickly	RANIN
Errand runner	AIDE
Explosive initials	TNT
Financial review	AUDIT
Fly-by-nighters	BATS
Formally relinquished	CEDED
Ft. Worth campus	TCU
Grove, essentially	TREES
Has the nerve	DARES
Headed toward San Diego on I-5	SOUTHBOUND
How some like their omelets	WHITE
Ice cream/whipped cream dessert	SUNDAE
In the past	AGO
Japanese entertainer	GEISHA
Job particulars, idiomatically	ROPES
Joke around	JOSH
Juan Ponce de __	LEON
Key to the right of ess	DEE
Lakeside land	SHORE
Language of Pakistan	URDU
Latter-day prefix for call	ROBO
Lei Day greeting	ALOHA
Letters on Cognac labels	VSOP
Lion-hearted	COURAGEOUS
Looks over	EYES
Lost traction	SLID
Low-cal brews	LITES
Make from scratch	CREATE
Mass confusion	CHAOS
Match up	AGREE
Meat in gyros	LAMB
Meditative discipline	YOGA
Moisten while roasting	BASTE
Mongolian wasteland	GOBI
Mythical sky holder	ATLAS
Not appropriate	UNTOWARD
Not out of the question	DOABLE
Numbered musical work	OPUS
Obtained from a consultant, say	OUTSOURCED
Occult astrological symbol	SIGIL
Ocelot, for instance	CAT
One from Zagreb	CROAT
Operate properly	WORK
Operatic voice	BASSO
Opposing sides	FOES
Oregon Trail transport	WAGON
Org. with Bobcats and Eagles	BSA
Origami bird	CRANE
Origami move	FOLD
Oversized	TOOBIG
Part of YMCA	MENS
Patches up	MENDS
Pay tribute to	LAUD
Peace Prize city	OSLO
Piano student's first scale: Abbr	CMAJ
Police protection	VESTS
Pond hoppers	FROGS
Pretend to have	FEIGN
Prior nights	EVES
Protagonist	HERO
Pulls back	EBBS
Quick-wink link	ASA
Quite a lot	TONS
Resort town on the English Channel	BOURNEMOUTH
Running wild	ONASPREE
Samoan city	PAGOPAGO
School support grps	PTAS
Significant	OFNOTE
Solemn promise	OATH
Solo of sci-fi	HAN
Sonata movement	RONDO
Soothes with cubes	ICES
Source of ''Les Miz''	HUGO
Southwestern art center	TAOS
Spot for soaking	BATH
Spring shape	COIL
Spumante city	ASTI
Squealer	FINK
Sudden rushes	SPATES
Taxi alternative	UBER
Techno-nerd	GEEK
This and this	THESE
Threshold	VERGE
Tiler's mortar	GROUT
Touches on	ABUTS
Town square building	COURTHOUSE
Tribute from Tennyson	ODE
TV host role for Tom Hanks	MRROGERS
Unconventional	ODD
Unemotional one	STOIC
Unfamiliar to most	ARCANE
Unhelped	ALONE
Unrestrained	LOOSE
Villain's doings	EVIL
Wandering minstrel	TROUBADOUR
Web addr	URL
Welsh pooch	CORGI
What Colorado and Utah are	MOUNTAINOUS
What pals called Hemingway	ERNIE
Whodunit assistance	CLUE
Whodunit author Macdonald	ROSS
With ''in,'' stagnating	ARUT
Without __ (riskily)	ANET
Yemen's capital	SANAA
You are here	EARTH
__ Haute, IN	TERRE