Newsday.com - Jul 18 2014

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Clues Answers
''Checkmate'' YOULOSE
Applications USES
Awesome EPIC
Bakery buy ECLAIRS
Be able to spare AFFORD
Beast on Canberra coins EMU
Beat rhythmically PULSATE
Beaufort scale category GALE
Big enchilada BOSS
Brief vow IDO
Challenger FOE
Cool place to live IGLOO
Cote quote BAA
Cultural symbol ICON
Dashboard button DEFOG
Deposit PAYIN
Do some pressing URGE
English ivy and coleus FOLIAGEPLANTS
Fabric made from cellulose RAYON
Fairy-tale villain ''starting'' the longest Across answers GIANT
Festive function GALA
First act OPENER
First group to get invitations ALIST
Flaky ODD
Galoot APE
Gifts from Mom and Dad GENES
Glorifying lines ODE
Good judgment REASON
Hat removers, maybe GUSTS
Hon DEARIE
Illustrious FAMED
Inkling IDEA
Intention END
Jell-O pudding flavoring OREO
Leave off OMIT
Mare's-nest MESS
Movie mentor with convoluted syntax YODA
Much of the Mongol Empire GOBI
Mushroom pests GNATS
Clues Answers
Name on the sheet music of '' 'S Wonderful'' IRA
Nine-symbol message SOS
No-win situation TIE
Note in a ''Sound of Music'' scale FAR
Number on David Cameron's door TEN
One-time towel, perhaps RAG
Opening trattoria course RISOTTO
Oral-care concern GUMS
Palm product DATE
Peace Nobelist right after Anwar and Menachem TERESA
Perform perfectly NAILIT
Periphery RIM
Personal sensitivity FEELINGS
Pixar products FILMS
Ponies up ANTES
Reddish brown RUST
Regard SEE
Rooster topper COMB
Rudely terse CURT
Schwab competitor ETRADE
Set off IGNITED
Shape of some speakers CUBE
Skilled workmanship ART
Southwestern grassland LLANO
Start of a quotable boast ICAME
Suffragist Stanton's colleague MOTT
Symbol of December YULELOG
Team with a leprechaun mascot FIGHTINGIRISH
Tech sch INST
Then IFSO
They drop the ball FUMBLERS
Third of a quarter MONTH
Tight-lipped MUM
Tipped off CUED
Toter on tour ROADIE
Vein contents ORE
Word from the wise HINT
Word on a Ouija board YES
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