Daily Themed Crossword December 23 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• Pointy-eared toymaker
  ELF
• Space bar’s neighbor
  ALT
• Sign of a spider
  WEB
• Nick Jr.’s ___ the Explorer
  DORA
• Bering or Caribbean e.g.
  SEA
• It seems to me… in texts: Abbr.
  IMO
• Gloom’s rhyming partner
  DOOM
• Leak a secret
  BLAB
• ___ chance! (No way!)
  FAT
• I’m so great trait
  EGO
• December 25th delivery vehicle pulled by 21a 36a 43a 45a and 34d?
  SLEIGH
• Female fox?
  VIXEN
• Casual hello
  HEY
• Basketball rim’s go-with
  NET
• Garden party beverage perhaps
  TEA
• Mend’s rhyming antonym
  REND
• Watch your ___! (Look where you’re going)
  STEP
• Formal way of addressing a man
  SIR
• Spooky-sounding Great Lake
  ERIE
• Halley’s ___ (celestial wonder)?
  COMET
• Used a shovel say
  DUG
• It turns a drink from neat to not neat
  ICE
• Important chapter in time
  ERA
• Ballet or hip-hop performer?
  DANCER
• God with a bow and arrow?
  CUPID
• Rock to-be refined
  ORE
• Pet taught to speak or shake often
  DOG
• Election results predictor
  POLL
• Search engine offering for short
  INFO
• ___-prepared (not ready)
  ILL
• Squeeze as a pimple
  POP
• Stick in some cars
  GEAR
• Mom’s favorite month perhaps
  MAY
• Letters before an online confession
  TBH
• Move it! at a traffic light
  HONK

DOWN

• Cartoon’s Ed ___ n Eddy
  EDD
• London restroom informally
  LOO
• To and ___
  FRO
• Communication system with hand gestures: Abbr.
  ASL
• Pet’s collar attachment
  LEASH
• Coffee ___ (living room furniture)
  TABLE
• Password-protected internet connectivity: Hyph.
  WIFI
• Online issue of Vogue say for short
  EMAG
• This one and that one
  BOTH
• Visa card alternative briefly
  AMEX
• Body parts in an X-ray
  BONES
• ___ used to it!
  GET
• Jane ___ (Bronte classic)
  EYRE
• President’s absolutely not
  VETO
• One added to a grocery bill list
  ITEM
• Top-level defense advisory group: Abbr.
  NSC
• Band-___ (paper cut coverer)
  AID
• Clapton who sang For Love on Christmas Day
  ERIC
• Not naughty at the North Pole
  NICE
• Adult fawn
  DEER
• Quiet! Not another ___ from you!
  PEEP
• Maya ___ The Good Place actress?
  RUDOLPH
• Stumble over shoelaces
  TRIP
• Long-jawed fish
  GAR
• One way to become a pet parent
  ADOPT
• Horse’s I want hay!
  NEIGH
• Dark-colored fizzy drink
  COLA
• Word to describe a Christmas sweater perhaps
  UGLY
• Lower as a brightness level
  DIM
• High tennis shot that may result in a smash
  LOB
• Prefix with Darwinism or Freudianism
  NEO
• Star’s supporter
  FAN
• Mork & Mindy planet
  ORK