Newsday.com - May 7 2016

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''. . . __ like silversmiths / Beating and beating . . .'': Plath ADIN
''Endure,'' as in the seventh 007 film title ARE
1998 sports headliner SOSA
2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient STANMUSIAL
Abate RELAX
Attains HITS
Bit of caviar GLOB
Buffets, perhaps SLAPS
Cause of Chilean droughts LANINA
Cause of grammarians' separation anxiety OXFORDCOMMA
Certain freighter CARGOPLANE
Circulation path AORTA
Closer to zero-gravity INANER
Corolla competitor SENTRA
Darrow's fossil evidence in the Scopes Trial PILTDOWNMAN
Dependable TRIED
Disney fjord crosser ELSA
Ecclesiastes 3 verb SEW
Fails utterly TANKS
Far from fresh BANAL
Follower of coffee, milk, or wine BAR
Formula One ban since 2006 VTEN
Get perfect NAIL
Get ready to take off UNLACE
Gordon Brown, by birth SCOT
Grasps SEES
Heavy metal RADIUM
Ill-treat KICKAROUND
Impassioned AFLAME
In rarefied air ALPINE
Instruction for some suites LENTO
Irritant PEST
It costs a bit over a buck EURO
Kitchen nickname derived from a weed-digging tool SPUD
Lab equipment FLASKS
Labourite, to some Brits LEFTIE
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Latino Public Broadcasting cofounder OLMOS
Mechanical gauge TEMPLATE
Name on five Rolaids Relief Man Awards, 1999-2009 MARIANO
Nome informale famiglia MAMMA
On-and-off OCCASIONAL
One of the Golden State's Santas CLARA
Org. that won't abide hackers PGA
Part of many cords LOG
Paul Simon collaborator on 2015's ''New York Is My Home'' DION
Pillowcase dress' lack ARMHOLES
Pinch NAB
Polo shirt purveyor LACOSTE
Post area MANNERS
Professor at NYU's School of the Arts SPIKELEE
Reagan employee TSAAGENT
Recognition for some stars MVP
Remote ALOOF
See 52 Down MALE
Snap, with ''out'' WIG
Source of unwelcome strains FLU
Start of a contrarian tweet OTOH
Starting point YEARONE
Strike DELETE
Subject of the bio ''Auto Pioneering'' OLDS
They may get help from the FBI PDS
They're now rarely seen in American hotel lobbies ASHTRAYS
Tijuana shiner SOL
Timberlake tune with the lyric ''Can't fight no more'' TKO
Try to smack SWATAT
Wasn't anchored SLID
What a ''Buy Here, Pay Here'' establishment offers AUTOLOAN
What some might be drawn to scale SLOPE
With 55 Down, domineering type ALPHA
Without procrastination ASAP
Word from the Latin for ''he holds'' TENET
Zodiacal symbol ARCHER