Newsday.com May 08 2011 crossword clues & answers

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Newsday.com May 08 2011

Clue	Answer
''Jumbo shrimp,'' for one	OXYMORON
''Piano Man'' singer	JOEL
''The Gold-Bug'' writer	POE
''Wheel of Fortune'' category	PHRASE
Abrasive minerals	EMERIES
Action-packed	SLAMBANG
Actor Willis	BRUCE
Actress Olin	LENA
African capital	DAKAR
Agitate	STIR
Amaze	STUN
Atomizer output	MIST
BACKUP	PLANB
Ben Stiller's mom	MEARA
Bend out of shape	WARP
Benny Hill, to Jack Benny	NAMESAKE
Blondie Bumstead's maiden name	BOOPADOOP
Boston's airport	LOGAN
Bound to get	INFOR
Brussels-based alliance	NATO
Building sites	PLOTS
Bunch of buffalo	HERD
Busy time for 121 Across	APRIL
Calendar abbr.	MON
Carried the day	WON
Certain TVs	RCAS
Chapters of history	ERAS
Charged towards	RANAT
Cheese lovers	MICE
Cherished	NEARANDDEAR
City on Route 66	AMARILLO
Civil rights org.	NAACP
Coffee-break time	TEN
Complain	MOANANDGROAN
Counting-rhyme start	EENY
Crier's cry	HEARYE
December songs	NOELS
Depreciation	WEARANDTEAR
Devotion to pleasure	HEDONISM
Dinner order	SURFANDTURF
Disneyland shuttles	TRAMS
Drink impolitely	SLURP
Dry as a desert	SAHARAN
Dry, as wine	SEC
Easy catch	POPFLY
Element #5	BORON
Engrave	ETCH
Eradicates	STAMPSOUT
Escape from	DODGE
European capital	MADRID
Family cars	SEDANS
Feathery scarf	BOA
Flip-chart holder	EASEL
Flower holder	STEM
Former Common Market letters	EEC
German article	EIN
Give up	CONCEDE
Green land	ERIN
Have a hunch	FEEL
Height enhancer	STILT
Height enhancers	HEELTAPS
Highly efficient	LEANANDMEAN
Hinged (on)	DEPENDED
Hole-punching tools	AWLS
Horatio Alger novel	LUCKANDPLUCK
Housekeeper's quarry	DUST
I, as in Innsbruck	ICH
Important	MAJOR
In that case	IFSO
In that role, with ''as''	SUCH
Insignificant	MERE
Item on tap	BEER
Jazz singer Vaughan	SARAH
Kids' game	ISPY
Large waterfowl	SWANS
Law partner	ORDER
Like a lot	ADORE
Likewise not	NOR
Looked up to	ADMIRED
Mandlikova of tennis	HANA
Maple Leafs and Coyotes	NHLERS
Midmonth day	IDES
Mont. neighbor	IDA
Musical postscripts	CODAS
Needing sharpening	DULL
Numbers game	LOTTO
One-band appliances	AMRADIOS
Opposite of ''to''	FRO
Outer layer	SKIN
Outfield material	SOD
P&L preparers	CPAS
Peeved	NETTLED
Peeved	SORE
Persian's plaint	MEOW
Piano parts	PEDALS
Place quickly	SLAPON
Prepare to drive	TEEUP
Presidential middle name	EARL
Progress unit	NOTCH
Propelled an antique sewing machine	TREADLED
Ranch pen	CORRAL
Remained unused	SAT
Repeat for emphasis	RAMHOME
Rite place	ALTAR
Seize illegally	USURP
Shipping shortcuts	CANALS
Shout when seeing 111 Down	EEK
Sierra __ (Mexican mountains)	MADRES
Simple song	DITTY
Sitar tune	RAGA
Snacked on	ATE
Some singers	ALTOS
Something boring	RUT
Something boring	DRAG
Sorority sisters	COEDS
Speaker introducer	EMCEE
Special Forces topper	BERET
Stack	HEAP
Start the pot	ANTE
Stinted on supper	UNDERFED
Stuff in some soups	NOODLES
Sugar serving, at times	ONELUMP
Suit material	SERGE
Sweeping in scope	EPIC
Tanning-lotion brand of yore	SEAANDSKI
Televise	AIR
Toulon twosome	DEUX
Ukraine port	ODESSA
Uncool	GEEKY
Unit of force	DYNE
University of Nevada locale	RENO
Unwraps	OPENS
Uruguayan uncle	TIO
Vacationer's objectives, often	SUNANDFUN
Vocal	ORAL
Went alone	SOLOED
Western Indian	UTE
Winter bug	FLU
Wore down	ERODED
You are here	EARTH
Youngest Ivy League school	CORNELL
__ chi (martial art)	TAI

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