Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Saturday August 5 2017.

Ability to work – EFFICACY
Comfy – ATEASE

Made like trundle beds – SLIDABLE
Stubborn pair in a Seuss story – THEZAX
Bunches of bees and blackbirds – COLONIES
Super charge – TENANT
Date-night destinations, perhaps – ATMS
Surname that sounds like a newspaper – DAILEY
Sign based on a Herculean labor – LEO
__ money – PIN
No longer benched – SENTIN
Collar attachment – BELL
Postgame report of a sort – ILOST
Particulate collection – SILT
Southwestern Queso brand – LAYS
Errant, as some drives – SLICED
Northern Irish city – SLIGO
Billy Graham, by birth – TARHEEL
Roulette table transaction – EVENBET
Big name in Lincoln Continental history – EDSEL
Spark good feelings – ENDEAR
Far from bountiful – SLIM
Home to five national parks – UTAH
Regular in tanks – TETRA
”The English Patient” nurse – HANA
Fixes (into) – EMBEDS
Something seen from Milan – ALP
Stop quibbling – ACT
Jelly spread with hors d’oeuvres – STERNO
Trade in the ”Daily Mail” – SWOP
Unbelted attire – MUUMUU
Mideast capital – ABUDHABI

Not cool – UNICED
Traditional hula-skirt material – TILEAVES
Device much used in ”Huckleberry Finn” – SATIRE
Least flashy – STAIDEST
Entertaining, often – ESCAPIST
”Orbital battleship” video game – FLOTILLA
43 Down genre – FILMNOIR
They’re often said with raised hands – IDOS
Eighty-six – CAN
Last long – ABIDE
Wins big, with ”up” – CLEANS
Response to a skeptic – YESITIS
Obliging – ATTENTIVE
Nebulous rumor source – THEY
”__ pity scarce can wish it less!”: Byron – EEN
Focus of many cities’ spring festivals – AZALEA
Without hysteria – SANELY
Rhapsodizes over – EXTOLS
City where Pasteur was a college dean – LILLE
No nag – STEED
Word from Middle French for ”light brown” – BLONDE
Conceptual framework – SCHEMA
Obsolescence – DESUETUDE
They’re bound to be refined – GENTS
Aid offer – LETME
Wakefulness indicator on EEGs – BETAWAVE
Some external adipose tissue – EARLOBES
Venerable beer brewer – TRAPPIST
Subjects of much nutritional research – LABRATS
Hardboiled novel stock character – SHAMUS
Logical gap – LACUNA
Pick up somehow – INTUIT
Weed source of pollen for honeybees – HENBIT
Obstetric aide – DOULA
Side of a case – SUER
Sardine cousin – SHAD
Introducer of 1-800-COLLECT (1993) – MCI
”Ad majorem __ gloriam” (Jesuit motto) – DEI