Newsday.com - Aug 26 2012

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Clues Answers
$5 bills ABES
''Be straight with me'' DONTLIE
''No __!'' (''Happy to do it!'') PROB
''Rescue me'' SOS
''Scram!'' GONOW
''__ formality!'' AMERE
'60s vice president HUBERTHORATIOHUMPHREY
650, to Caesar DCL
Acquisition GAIN
Active one DOER
After deductions NET
Alphabetic quartet DEFG
Anti-drug officer NARC
Audible range EARSHOT
Augmented ADDEDTO
Baby bottle NURSER
Baseball great Gehrig LOU
Battlegrounds ARENAS
Be adjacent to ABUT
Beginning ASOF
Bela Lugosi, in ''Son of Frankenstein'' YGOR
Ben Stiller's mom MEARA
Beseeches BEGS
Boat show array YACHTS
British racing town EPSOM
Call in a pledge DONATE
Capital of Fiji SUVA
Card in a seer's deck TAROT
Carry to extremes OVERDO
Cavalry outpost FORT
Cell phone's lack TOUCHTONE
Central American songbirds WHITETHROATEDTHRUSHES
Chicago mayor Emanuel RAHM
Coin in Cannes EURO
College cheer RAH
Composer Anderson LEROY
Computer input DATA
Concerning this HEREOF
Confront boldly ACCOST
Construct BUILD
Cookies in some ice creams OREOS
CPR expert EMT
Cuban leader Castro RAUL
Dog star LASSIE
Dream up HATCH
Drench SOAK
Dry as a bone ARID
Egg white ALBUMEN
Enimem mentor DRDRE
Every other hurricane HER
Exxon's ex-name ESSO
Face-to-face exam ORAL
Fireplace tools POKERS
Firesides HEARTHS
Fix deeply SETINTO
Flip-chart holders EASELS
For the asking FREE
Forbidden things NONOS
Frat letters RHOS
Frozen dessert chain TCBY
German exclamation ACH
Gloss over SKIP
Goes wrong ERRS
GPS calculations RTES
Guitarist's device CAPO
Have down cold KNOWTHROUGHANDTHROUGH
Hubbub STIR
Ideal example EPITOME
In the past AGO
Instrument of India SITAR
Island near Majorca IBIZA
Clues Answers
It might hatch in a barn OWLEGG
Italian word for ''milk'' LATTE
Japanese city OSAKA
Lacerated TORE
Legendary archer TELL
Liquid-__ (Drano rival) PLUMR
London neighborhood SOHO
Loses control GOESAPE
Lost traction SLID
Major movie channel HBO
Make a connection TIE
Make illegal BAN
Marriage broker MATCHER
Messy place STY
Motive REASON
Narrated yarn TALE
Neck of the woods AREA
No more than ONLY
Not even once NEVER
Not fooled by ONTO
Not very good SOSO
Novelist Calvino ITALO
Observes carefully NOTES
Opera fan's opposite of ''buffa'' SERIA
Oratorio solo ARIA
Org. for seniors AARP
Oscar winner as Lugosi LANDAU
Parcel (out) METE
Park bench board SLAT
Part of wpm WDS
Partner of Edward Jones DOW
Pastel shade AQUA
Pediatricians' wall hangings HEIGHTANDWEIGHTCHARTS
Pittsburgh pro athlete STEELER
Postgraduate study LAW
Prefix meaning ''both'' AMBI
Queued up INALINE
Rake projections TEETH
Rein for Rover LEASH
Religious group SECT
Rhetorical question of amazement WHOWOULDHAVETHOUGHTIT
Risk taker's challenge DAREME
Road-test component UTURN
Royal title: Abbr HRH
Russian dynasts CZARS
Satirical bit SKETCH
Seaport of Jordan AQABA
Sgt., for instance NCO
Sixer or Mav NBAER
Sound of distress GROAN
Specify NAME
Stadium employee USHER
Stinging remark BARB
Suffix meaning ''lizard'' SAUR
Summer cottage, perhaps RENTAL
Summer setting in St. Pete EDT
Superboy's girlfriend LANA
Synagogue scroll TORAH
Things kept on some people TABS
Throw out, with ''of'' DISPOSE
Thus ERGO
Time-line segments ERAS
Type of sports car roof TTOP
Verified fact TRUTH
What ''cat'' starts with HARDC
Wild guess STAB
Willy Wonka creator DAHL
Wine specification SEC
Word on a gift card FROM
Zilch NADA
__ Frank Baum LYMAN