Newsday.com - May 28 2016

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Clues Answers
''Backwoods Barbie'' artist PARTON
''Batman'' comics explosion sound BLAM
''Big'' choreographer ABDUL
''Sure do'' YEP
''To Be or Not to __'' (Dizzy Gillespie memoir) BOP
''__, lad'' (apt anagram for a UN member) ERIN
About five pounds of letter-size REAM
Allowing a peek AJAR
Ark builder in a 2007 film EVAN
Athena guided its construction ARGO
Basis of a platform TENET
Brand name on Yoplait's Cotton Candy yogurt TRIX
Break or time preceder DAY
Bring up with, with ''on'' WEAN
Brown sphere ACADEMIA
Canceled a reservation, say DINEDIN
Center of many comparisons THAN
Cleared for launch OKED
Daschle's ex-Senate collaborator on a 2016 book LOTT
Defensive fortification REDOUBT
DVD player part TRAY
Egg whites, to some ALLERGEN
First audience-participation TV talk show DONAHUE
Focused grp ASSN
Future star debuting in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' DEPP
Get into DON
Giant of the Enlightenment KANT
Grand fraction CSPOT
Grape-Nuts developer CWPOST
Hard to resist, in a way ADORABLE
Heated denial LIES
Heels SCOUNDRELS
Hooey BILGE
Ideal model PARADIGM
Lacking backing ACAPPELLA
Literally, ''publicity'' GLASNOST
Clues Answers
Make a bad impression on DENT
Many TV drama heroes PIS
Marked to move ONSALE
Medium effort SEANCE
Only veep born in DC ALGORE
Parlor decoration TAT
Part of four NFL logos BIRD
Pegged IDED
Posh mall GALLERIA
Practice PLY
Really let have it FLAY
Refiner's activity HONING
Relaxes IDLES
Reptile house supplies ANTIVENINS
Return business TAXPREP
Roaring start RIP
Sketch not drawn ANECDOTE
Snake in a nut can, essentially BOOBYTRAP
Sponge, for one ANIMAL
Staggering ONTHEROPES
State with the shortest international land border IDAHO
Teed off NOTAHAPPYCAMPER
Through DONE
Tom Wolfe, circa 1956 ELI
Top of slopes SKICAP
Torpedo features FINS
Toward the tow rope ASTERN
Watson's ''How we discovered DNA,'' for one TEDTALK
Webster autograph, in part DANL
Went to see LOOKEDINON
Where chestnuts might be found JOKEBOOK
Wring (out) EKE
Write over RECOPY
__ order GAG
__ order TALL
__ thruster (type of rocket engine) ION