Newsday Crossword August 15, 2026 Answers

Across

Top drawer8 Dehydrates, in a way6 Setting for exposure8 Extremely noble6 Spoils8 Extremely6 Drop a line4 Lightens up5 Key duplication3 Slippery slope4 Cesky apostol5 Inside plant4 Center of convergence3 Show-off11 Come after or go after6 Stubbornness symbol5 Guess who?7 Juice boxes7 Went long5 Escaped slowly6 It's thought-provoking11 Pair of kings, say3 The Second Fifty publisher4 Has an unenviable feeling5 Word from the French for "small and detailed"4 Light of light3 High-spirited5 Home of a Water Lilies triptych4 Sends up6 Marvel Universe trope8 Take a break from blogging6 Barely balanced8 Intense or impressive6 Siege that named an SUV8

Down

Texan wearing a stallion logo3 Greek who wrote Theory of the Passions8 Start to boil8 Pop up5 Ballpark figure4 Sound like tsk3 Corn pancakes6 Copies over, perhaps7 Cups of tea11 Some fathers, for short4 Fit bit3 Luke's unfortunate news6 Whom Claudia called "the only remaining supermodel"6 One with goals6 Slow movement5 Nightmare tormentee in his first film (1984)4 Overly optimistic11 Bissell's German rival5 Chinese city, first with a COVID lockdown5 Large key5 Doctor's order5 Affaire de __5 Posters, postcards, pamphlets, etc.8 What Romeo and Juliet are8 School close to Coronado4 Talk over?7 Good-for-nothing6 Castigate6 Tireless force6 Hair __6 Fancy fungus5 Robin cousin4 Successor of NASDAQ's FB4 It's often rolled over3 Hard-boiled protagonist3 Handel's __ for the Birthday of Queen Anne3