Newsday.com - Aug 17 2014

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Clues Answers
''Hey, slow it down!'' EASY
''If I Only Had the Nerve'' singer LAHR
''Moneyball'' star PITT
''On the Beach'' author Nevil SHUTE
''Silly me!'' IMAFOOL
''The Jungle Book'' star SABU
''Welcome to Maui!'' ALOHA
Accelerate, with ''up'' REV
Actress Witherspoon REESE
Agree silently NOD
All thumbs INEPT
Ancient legend MYTH
Author Murdoch IRIS
Baker's dozens EGGS
Bank-poster datum CDRATE
Be in charge RUNTHESHOW
Bedroom piece BUREAU
Bet first OPEN
Betting tactic PARLAY
Bit of hail PELLET
Blow one's top ERUPT
Book-jacket bit BIO
Bowl over AWE
Brazilian writer Jorge AMADO
Bring to bear EXERT
Business phone no. add-on EXT
By way of VIA
Calendrical brink EVE
Capitol Hill VIP SEN
Carbon-14, e.g ISOTOPE
Careen LURCH
Caribou relative ELK
Casserole tidbit NOODLE
Catchphrase TAGLINE
Cause of inflation HIKEINPRICES
Celebrity chef Bobby FLAY
Certain groomer's specialty DOGHAIR
Connection LINKAGE
Corporation's regulation BYLAW
CPR expert EMT
Cranial cavity SINUS
Derby town of England EPSOM
Discontinues CEASES
E-commerce facilitator PAYPAL
Early afternoon hr TWOPM
Elates LIFTS
Emulate Gutenberg SETTYPE
Enrapture RAVISH
Far from the spotlight OBSCURE
Fill the tank GASUP
Find great fault with CLIMBALLOVER
Form of oxygen OZONE
Founded BEGAN
Full of energy ALIVE
Garish signs NEONS
Get __ on the back APAT
Get-up-and-go PEP
Give permission SAYOK
Go rather briskly TROT
Golden State sch UCAL
Good buddies CHUMS
Greek omelet ingredient FETA
HBO competitor TMC
Hi-fi system STEREO
Hi-tech classroom PCLAB
Hold 'em fee ANTE
Holden's brother in ''Catcher in the Rye'' ALLIE
Holes in your shoe EYELETS
Home of Wichita St KAN
House-salad alternative BOWLOFSOUP
HS support org PTA
In a state of fusion MOLTEN
Indecisive one FENCESITTER
Clues Answers
It's north of Chile PERU
Ivanhoe creator SCOTT
Jump to one's feet LEAPUP
Justice Dept. division ATF
Katmandu native NEPALI
Kitchen cleaners MOPS
Kitchen-gadget brand EKCO
Likely to offend folks, for short NOTPC
Long (for) ACHE
Lose traction SLIP
Lug around TOTE
Mag's space seller ADREP
Main-course combo SURFANDTURF
Make mention of CITE
Mattress support BOXSPRING
Melody TUNE
Melville's monomaniacal mariner AHAB
More despicable BASER
Most Iraqis SHIITES
NASCAR great Earnhardt DALE
Nodded off SLEPT
Obvious EVIDENT
Of two minds TORN
One-celled organism AMEBA
One-quarter of zero ZEE
Opposing teams SIDES
Optimistic comment IHOPESO
Parking area LOT
Part of FDA DRUG
Part of TNT NITRO
Payable DUE
Permissive LAX
Photo blowup: Abbr ENL
Piercing tool AWL
Plug away TOIL
Posh properties ESTATES
Pre-coll. exam PSAT
Precious thing GEM
Prepare to propose KNEEL
Pseudocultural ARTY
Rd. atlas listings STS
Reach GETTO
Reels of yarn SKEINS
Repurposed T-shirt, maybe RAG
Retro headgear BEANIE
Rights reader COP
Rural storehouse SILO
Self-centeredness EGOTISM
Skim-milk descriptor NOFAT
Slangy suffix for switch EROO
Some cats and goats ANGORAS
Stage platform RISER
Store announcement SALE
Strongly suggesting URGING
Submerged SUNKEN
Suffix for self ISH
Tai __ (martial art) CHI
The girl, in Granada LANINA
Toyota rival SUBARU
Treat hurriedly SKATEOVER
Under the weather ILL
What an unhappy buyer bemoans BADDEAL
What Caesar called France GAUL
Whispered call PSST
Whitman and Whittier POETS
Winding curve ESS
Window part SASH
Winter garment TOPCOAT
Woodpile covering TARP
Word to the wise TIP
Wyoming's __ Range TETON
Yank TUG
__-tac-toe TIC