Newsday.com - Feb 23 2014

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Clues Answers
''It is the nature of ambition to make men __'': Tynan LIARS
''Where Happiness Means the World'' sloganeer CLUBMED
10th-century pope LEOV
Accounts REPORTS
Added detail EXPANDED
AL West team, on scoreboards LAA
Approximate ROUND
Barbering spot NAPE
Bars TAVERNS
Brilliant finish INE
Bring home NET
Celluloid smuggler HANSOLO
Climactic APOGEAL
Coops up ENCAGES
Cord material FIREWOOD
Date, for short APPT
Desired SOUGHT
Despotic organization OCTOPUS
Did a number on WRONGED
Doll SWEETIE
Don't use OMIT
Double-edged cutters LANCETS
Earth __ TONE
Elvis' ''Hound Dog,'' for one BSIDE
Fool, to Felipe TONTO
Fringe group TASSELS
He told you so GLOATER
Intimates GETSAT
Javert in 2012's ''Les Misérables'' CROWE
Largest New Deal agcy WPA
Lays down some green SODS
Lock up ICE
Major disasters FIASCOS
Merest trace SHRED
Mind OPINION
Mini successors in 2005 NANOS
Clues Answers
Noah Webster, circa 1777 ELI
Now powerless DEPOSED
Off the team CUT
Oil company, in Wall Street lingo PETE
One of Machiavelli's ''Five Good Emperors'' HADRIAN
Opposite of ''alt'' NEU
Outlet for driving ambition CARRACE
Overruns MOBS
Persistence over resistance SIEGE
Petrarchan forms SESTETS
Pool supplies ACIDS
Proscriptions NONOS
Renaissance music staple LUTE
Respond to pressure, in a way DARE
Separate UNHITCH
Seven-time Presidents Cup competitor ELS
Short stop? ETC
Showed defiance, perhaps GRINNED
Sight from the Great Glen Way LOCHNESS
Signaled DENOTED
Split open RIP
Spoil, perhaps DOTEON
Stadium cannon fodder TSHIRT
Stew SNIT
Stirring EMOTIVE
Stretches out RATIONS
Terra-cotta novelty CHIAPET
Threshold EVE
Tie down INHIBIT
Tough guy's challenge WHOSNEXT
Triangle ultimatum HIMORME
What a reader may interpret TAROT
Where it should be INPLACE
Wind up COIL
Word from the Italian for ''wine cellar'' CANTEEN
__ Foundation (major NPR donor) SLOAN