Newsday.com - Aug 18 2014

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Clues Answers
''Plastic'' payment method CHARGECARD
Alan of ''M*A*S*H'' ALDA
Angora fabric MOHAIR
Apex ACME
Approach quickly RUNTO
Bad-weather alert STORMWATCH
Be worthy of EARN
Begin conducting an orchestra STRIKEUPTHEBAND
Billiards stick CUE
Black-and-white cookies OREOS
Blacken on the barbecue CHAR
Bullets, for short AMMO
Cash advance LOAN
Chauffeured auto LIMO
City near Phoenix TEMPE
Crimson and scarlet REDS
Desertlike ARID
Egg-shaped OVAL
Enjoy the pool SWIM
Expo with new yachts BOATSHOW
Fail to mention OMIT
First part of a play ACTI
Four-door car SEDAN
Frightening SCARY
Give a speech ORATE
Granola grain OAT
Group of eight OCTET
Group of performers CAST
Happy feeling MIRTH
Homes for canaries CAGES
Huff and puff PANT
Husband or wife MATE
Identical SAME
Impolite look LEER
Is deceitful LIES
Keep out of sight HIDE
Kid's coloring stick CRAYON
Kitchen or den ROOM
Lamb owner of nursery rhyme MARY
Clues Answers
Last-yr. high-schoolers SRS
Lounge around LOLL
Major blood vessel AORTA
Make an escape FLEE
Make happy ELATE
Nest eggs held at S&Ls IRAS
Netlike fabric MESH
New person on the payroll HIREE
Numerical fact, for short STAT
Oak seed ACORN
Office attire SUIT
Oil-cartel acronym OPEC
One of the Great Lakes ERIE
Pie pans TINS
Piece of a chain LINK
Publicity guy, for short PRMAN
Rabbit relative HARE
Ram of the zodiac ARIES
Region AREA
Roads that often cross aves STS
Round specks DOTS
Rural hotel INN
Separate into stacks SORT
Ships' poles MASTS
Showed again on TV RERAN
Siamese or Persian pets CATS
Spanish ''good-bye'' ADIOS
Sulks MOPES
Thaw MELT
Tie up, as a boat MOOR
Toward sunset WEST
Trumpets and bugles HORNS
Two hours before noon TEN
Viewing wildlife in Africa, perhaps ONSAFARI
Water ridden by a surfer WAVE
West Point students CADETS
Yellowish-brown lion color TAWNY
__ and crafts ARTS
__ of two evils LESSER