HUBBY: Sorry, no Grub or Stub
Across
- Deception
- USCG VIP
- 3/14, at MIT
- Housetop room
- Eurasia's __ Mountains
- Auto body style
- Help-line callers
- Casual eatery
- Snobbish mannerisms
- SUB HUB
- Flood barrier
- Vigorous, as a walk
- Ivy Leaguer
- Falco of The Sopranos
- Worked strenuously
- Yuletide tunes
- Show runner, for short
- Upper regions
- Cavernous opening
- Pennsylvania port
- Collector's __ (rarity)
- Soybean container
- Remote control battery
- SHRUB HUB
- Bar bottle
- Hernando's house
- Electronics/film giant
- Kinds of pears
- See 51-Across
- With "the" and 52-Across, started work
- Nail down
- Argument intro
- Pay attention
- Add to
- Two-Oscar Stone
- Requirement
- SCRUB HUB
- Out of Africa byline
- No later than
- Barbadian singer's nickname
- The Right Stuff aviator
- Guatemala galas
- Access
- Evil grin
- + in physics, for short
- CBS prime-time franchise
- Not feral
- "THE HUB" HUB
- Lucasfilm sound system
- Star Trek skipper
- Film studio structure
- Begin to unravel
- Sci-fi assistant
- Is capable
- LAX monitor datum
- Prepare carefully
- LuPone or LaBelle
- Thoreau book
- Land parcel
- Slacken off
- Thwarted
- French condiment
- Slender instrument
- CLUB HUB
- Sand hill
- "...against __ of troubles": Shak.
- Henry Ford's kid
- Word like gracias
- Longest armbone
- Teachers' deg.
- Darling
- Uniform for 77-Across
- Nickname for Theresa
Down
- Natural bandage
- Rants and raves
- March instructor
- Half of A/V
- Positive
- NASDAQ milestone
- Lipstick holder
- Donut-shaped
- Military school
- High fashion monogram
- Upstart
- Served up
- Oral acknowledgment
- Baby seal
- Soccer great Lionel
- Cape Town tongue
- Manicurist employer
- Guided
- Witch, for instance
- Didn't give up
- Mine haul
- Dad, to Grandma
- Informal residence
- Hot time in France
- Never existed
- 2025 achievement for Spielberg
- Shoveled into
- Cathedral section
- Sch. a few miles from Columbia
- Of sovereigns
- Elle alternative
- Bathwater tester
- Dojo teaching
- Mad About You star
- Roast host
- Novelist E. __ Proulx
- Natural successors
- Are right for
- High-spirited
- Crank (up)
- Genesis 1 arrival
- Toon in a polka-dot dress
- Had guests over
- Baseball great Jeter
- Exodus author
- Early 1900s __-Japanese War
- Classroom furniture
- Some line learners
- Rip apart
- Typeface faces
- Rec room furniture
- Any-hr. cash source
- Artful
- '90s "nifty"
- Ltd. cousin
- Go __ great length (ramble)
- Mushroom top
- Grass in rolls
- Rude observer
- Plodded along
- Type of auto tire
- Hostile opponent
- Brook fish
- Gandhi colleague
- Thin cookie
- Request earnestly
- Brews from bags
- Focal points
- Frozen princess
- Vitamin agcy.
- Peach center
- "Wow!" text
- Praiseful verse
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, August 30, 2026 is titled “HUBBY: Sorry, no Grub or Stub” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 146 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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