New York Times Crossword Solutions - Aug 24, 2014

Clue	Answer
'A Journal of the Plague Year' novelist, 1722	DEFOE
'A Streetcar Named Desire' role	STELLA
'Breaking Bad' commodity	METH
'Bugsy' star	BEATTY
'But wait ... there's more!' items	BONUSES
'Hee Haw' heyday, say?	ERAOFCORN
'It's true whether or not you believe in it,' per Neil deGrasse Tyson	SCIENCE
'Joseph Anton: A Memoir' autobiographer	RUSHDIE
'Keep climbing' sloganeer	DELTA
'Lolita' subject	LECHERY
'Rock-a-bye Baby,' e.g	LILT
Absence justification	ILLNESS
Absorb	SOPUP
Aerodynamic	SLEEK
Anne Frank, e.g.?	DIARYMAID
Author Dinesen	ISAK
Be behind	TRAIL
Beaver Cleaver exclamation	GEE
Big name in trucking	CONWAY
Black Friday events	SALES
Blanchett of 'Blue Jasmine'	CATE
Boccaccio wrote a biography of him	DANTE
Brady Campaign opposer, for short	NRA
British eatery	TEASHOP
Bugs that weigh tons	VWS
Burn	SCALD
Candlelight diners, perhaps	COUPLE
Care providers, for short	HMOS
Cells displaced them	PAGERS
Channel-surfing catalysts	ADS
Cheat	SHYSTER
Close the set?	WRAP
Collective effort	TEAMPLAY
Connie's husband in 'The Godfather'	CARLO
Dampen, perhaps	BEDEW
Dated	SAW
Device that can tell if someone's recently vacationed in Hawaii?	LEIDETECTOR
Director of the 'Dark Knight' trilogy	NOLAN
Driven group	CATTLE
Eschew modesty	CROW
Ex-mayor seen in 'The Muppets Take Manhattan'	EDKOCH
Family business abbr	BROS
Fashion lines	SEAMS
Fasten, as a rope	BELAY
Figure skater Mao	ASADA
Game drawers	DECOYS
Garbage collection?	FLIES
Given	AXIOM
Goes downhill?	SLEDS
Grammatical concept	MOOD
Grieve openly	WEEP
Handles	SEESTO
Hankerings	YENS
Have in mind	MEAN
Heels	CADS
High country	NEPAL
Higher-up	EXEC
Home of the first U.N. secretary general	OSLO
Honey Bunches of Oafs, e.g.?	CLODCEREAL
Honor	ESTEEM
Humble dwellings	HUTS
In a moment	ANON
In most cases	ASARULE
It starts with a celebration	YEAR
Item from the Victoria's Sweetness catalog?	BRAOFCHOCOLATE
Kennedy Center focus	ARTS
Kind of	INAWAY
Kind of rock	CLASSIC
Kovacs of comedy	ERNIE
Last thing bid?	ADIEU
Letter arrangement?	LEASE
Like many hospital patients getting visitors	POSTOP
Long sentence	LIFE
Maintains the border, say	HEMS
Make do with, say	USE
Masseur's supply	TALC
Microscope part	EYEPIECE
Miss	LASS
Miss ___	USA
Modern-day capital that King David ordered besieged	AMMAN
Mortgage adjustment, briefly	REFI
Narrow shaft in a mountain?	SLIVERMINE
Nautical command	AVAST
Novelist Danielle without her glossy dress?	SATINLESSSTEEL
One in a tight space, perhaps	SMALLCAR
One who may be grand?	NIECE
Ones manifesting Manifest Destiny	SETTLERS
Paintball gun?	BLOTACTIONRIFLE
Palindromic name	OTTO
Particle in a salt solution	ION
Peaceful protest of the 1960s	LOVEIN
Pen name of columnist Pauline Phillips	ABBY
Phoebe's twin on 'Friends'	URSULA
Poetic contraction	OER
Poetic contraction	EER
Poker set?	SUITS
Reasons to resurface	RUTS
Rink maneuver	AXEL
Rock growth	LICHEN
Salt source	SEA
Semidome site	APSE
Send to the ocean bottom	SCUTTLE
Set a price of	ASK
Shingle sealant	TAR
Sign of rot	ODOR
Site of many IVs	ICU
Slithery swimmer	EEL
Some credit card rewards	MILES
Sound off	RANT
Soup after it's been taken off the burner?	CALMCHOWDER
Spellbound	RAPT
Sri Lanka export	PEKOE
Stomach settler	BICARB
Stop it	DESIST
Summits	ACMES
Take a shot?	IMBIBE
The Cardinals, on scoreboards	STL
The Roman poet Ovid, once	EXILE
Trifling amount	SOU
Truck-driving competitions	ROADEOS
TV 'explorer'	DORA
U.K. news source, with 'the'	BEEB
Union general Wallace	LEW
Walking distance	STEP
Walks noisily	CLOMPS
Wash. Square campus	NYU
What might determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore?	CROONERSINQUEST
When repeated, cry before 'They're catching up!'	FASTER
Where the rubber meets the road?	SOLE
Whip tip	LASH
Who: Lat	QUA
Willing to take risks	BOLD
Work with a number	OPUS
Yom Kippur War figure	MEIR
___ Cantor, German mathematician who invented set theory	GEORG
___ clef	ALTO
___ Lane, acting first lady during Buchanan's tenure	HARRIET
___-Ball	SKEE