Newsday.com - May 18 2014

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Clues Answers
''60 Minutes'' airer CBS
''Necessary'' downside EVILS
''Pardon me . . .'' AHEM
''Yeah, sure!'' HAH
''__ it a pity?'' ISNT
'70s Egyptian leader SADAT
Alabama athletes CRIMSONTIDE
Ambiance AURA
Annual Pamplona runners TOROS
Athenian statesman SOLON
Bad-mouth ASPERSE
Baldwin of ''30 Rock'' ALEC
Beanery handouts MENUS
Birth of a notion SEED
Black Russian ingredient VODKA
Brunch fare OMELETS
Buffalo NHLer SABRE
Bugs Bunny insult WHATAMAROON
Bump in the road SNAG
Business partner, perhaps SON
Cash advance LOAN
Cash in 20+ countries EUROS
Cheese partner at lunch MAC
Columnists' page OPED
Company with an ''inc.'' name CORP
Compass point WEST
Court orders WRITS
DC contingent GOP
Depiction on some slippers BUNNY
Designer Kenneth COLE
Do perfectly NAIL
Druid, for one PAGAN
Elaborate scams SETUPS
End of a ''Casablanca'' toast KID
English sculptor MOORE
Evening hour SEVEN
Exchanges, as an auto TRADESIN
Fairly tight SNUG
Ferrell's anchorman role RONBURGUNDY
Fill to excess SATE
First pope STPETER
Five-star review RAVE
Forest growth LICHEN
Former OLD
Full of foam SUDSY
Get in a stew FRET
Go downhill, perhaps COAST
Herring's cousin SHAD
High-school math TRIG
Hoedown seats BALES
Hold back, as breath BATE
Hornets' home NEST
How fries are fried INOIL
Ink stain BLOT
Innocent ones BABES
Italian autos FIATS
Itsy-bitsy WEE
Kagan of the Supreme Court ELENA
Kemper of ''The Office'' ELLIE
Kitchen gadget RICER
Lacking culture CRUDE
Lasting mark SCAR
Legendary Native American athlete THORPE
Letters on Forever stamps USA
Logical flaw HOLE
Long, long time EON
M __ ''mnemonic'' ASIN
Male aardvark BOAR
Many-trunk tree BANYAN
Mason's tool BRICKTONGS
Microwave setting THAW
Mrs. Sprat's no-no LEAN
Nation that lost a day in 2011 SAMOA
Clues Answers
Ned's wife on ''The Simpsons'' MAUDE
New Year's broadcast ROSEPARADE
Not so kind MEANER
Novelist Tan AMY
Overly sweet ICKY
Panasonic's headquarters OSAKA
Part of UPC CODE
Periphery EDGES
Pharmacy order, for short SCRIP
Philosopher who inspired Jefferson LOCKE
Poet Whitman WALT
Pointy beard VANDYKE
Prefix for cycle UNI
Pucker-producing TART
Pulitzer composer Ned ROREM
Push hard SHOVE
Put the collar on ARREST
Put up ERECT
Quarterback great Terry BRADSHAW
Radio station sign ONAIR
Red-haired explorer ERIC
Repetitive practice DRILLS
Restaurant bill addition TIP
Salon sound SNIP
Sauerkraut trait ODOR
Savoir-__ FAIRE
School-zone warning SLOW
Serious lapse CARDINALSIN
Shaped like jellybeans OVOID
Sharp pull TUG
Sharpen HONE
Shepherd of Genesis ABEL
Small sums MITES
Snowman of song FROSTY
Soft-drink variety CHERRYCOLA
Some economic stats AVGS
Soup eater's faux pas SLURP
Stands to lose RISKS
Staying power, so to speak LEGS
Stocking shade BEIGE
Striking scene TABLEAU
Strong ale BARLEYWINE
Sub __ (secretly) ROSA
Sunbather's risk BURN
Sunflower Stater KANSAN
Superman's birth name KALEL
Sushi-bar soup MISO
Suspect in Clue MISSSCARLET
Swarm TEEM
Take under one's wing ADOPT
Takes heed of NOTES
Talent for banter WIT
TGI Friday's rival RUBYTUESDAY
Think (over) MULL
Tolerate ABIDE
Tot stuff TOYS
Usher's beat AISLE
Van renter MOVER
Virtuoso performer ARTIST
Voting alliance BLOC
Walled city of Spain AVILA
Went awry ERRED
What a fare is for RIDE
Winds up CLOSES
With it HIP
With no match ODD
Words following ''sleep'' or ''step'' ONIT
Yalie ELI
Youngsters' ballfield SANDLOT
Zebralike STRIPY
__ carotene BETA
__ Island Immigration Museum ELLIS
__ Sea (Antarctic expanse) ROSS