NetWord Crossword December 16, 2022
Author: by Chris Gross
Across
New “Today” cohost in 2018 | KOTB |
Shortened form, for short | ABBR |
Something tendered | OFFER |
Texter’s intro | IMHO |
Liz Truss, for one | TORY |
Actress Watts | NAOMI |
Gaming novice | NOOB |
Pronounced | SAID |
Evenly matched | EQUAL |
English horns and bassoons | DOUBLEREEDS |
Tell it like it isn’t | LIE |
Designation for all gasoline since ’96 | LEADFREE |
Underhanded | SLY |
Yakked at length | JAWED |
LDS HQ | SLC |
Former airline to Kona | ALOHA |
Dairies | MILKFARMS |
Lodge letters | BPOE |
Explorers’ org. | BSA |
Glittery mineral | MICA |
Weather-dependent illumination | SOLARLAMP |
Are fluent in | SPEAK |
Capital of Delaware | DEE |
Some babysitters | AUNTS |
USMC rank | PFC |
Certain leathers | DOESKINS |
Poor Richard’s preposition | ERE |
Counting backward | TICKINGDOWN |
Former First Daughter | SASHA |
Ex of Julia | LYLE |
“Understood” | ISEE |
At the ready | ONTAP |
Each | APOP |
Periodical for women | ELLE |
What the four longest Across answers each have two parts of | SCALE |
Subject to analysis | TEST |
Didn’t keep a secret | TOLD |
Down
Benevolent | KIND |
Melville novel | OMOO |
Grand, for short | THOU |
Ballpark souvenir | BOBBLEHEAD |
Mystified | ATSEA |
Advisory group | BOARD |
Short-winded | BRIEF |
U-Haul rival | RYDER |
What it’s usually best to be | ONESELF |
URL with answers | FAQ |
Hoops infractions | FOULS |
Net notes | |
“The Hoosier Poet” | RILEY |
Mother of Castor and Pollux | LEDA |
Spot for a blotter | DESK |
Verbal criticism | JABS |
Purina sister brand | ALPO |
Australian export | WOOL |
Freshman fare | CAMPUSDIET |
Typical hedge fund hire | MBA |
Ideology ender | ISM |
Once around | LAP |
Nothing, in Nice | RIEN |
Exam with many biology questions | MCAT |
Upscale retail chain | SAKS |
Impediment to progress | REDTAPE |
Fifth-century pope | LEOI |
Sent out a tweet | SANG |
“Dinero” for “ocho” countries | PESOS |
A euro predecessor | FRANC |
Sporting ball basket | CESTA |
Ceremonial splendor | ECLAT |
Webcam app | SKYPE |
Tonne fractions | KILOS |
Feckless | INEPT |
Third-northernmost national capital | OSLO |
All right | WELL |
It might be pressing | NEED |
Falstaff pal | HAL |