NetWord Crossword December 17, 2022
Author: by Anna Stiga
Across
One paid to talk since the 1920s | SPORTSCASTER |
Capture the moment | TAKEAPICTURE |
Much more than moist | SOAKEDTOTHEBONE |
Choice for a charge | TNT |
Not as sensible | DOTTIER |
State with a 45 mi. northern border | IDA |
Not a true friend | USER |
Hefty helping | SLAB |
Surpassing in pleasing | NICER |
They help Hades in Disney’s “Hercules” | FATES |
Slice pairing well with peaches | EDAM |
Painter’s canvas | TARP |
Taquito | FLAUTA |
Bumps in the road | SNAGS |
Guidance computer backup for Apollo astronauts | SEXTANT |
It articulates with the femur | KNEEPAN |
Stabilization specialist | ERDOC |
Hit the big time | EMERGE |
Queen dowager of the 1540s | PARR |
No longer dubious | SOLD |
Sweet sandwich | SMORE |
Only four-Pulitzer poet | FROST |
Landlocked neighbor of China | LAOS |
Took off | SPED |
Early 10th century year | CMX |
Add to another’s upset | RUBITIN |
Mother __ | HEN |
Supermarket checkout staple | SOAPOPERADIGEST |
Hardly in a sorry state | UNAPOLOGETIC |
Without letup | RELENTLESSLY |
Down
Extra charge of a sort | STATETAX |
Common Korean surname | PAK |
Let pass | OKED |
Second chances | REDOS |
Spill something | TATTLE |
Show stoppers | SPOTADS |
Early user of ATMs | CITIBANK |
Exercise obstacle | ACHE |
Uncompromising | STERN |
Cotton candy purchase | TUB |
“The greatest symphony,” per “BBC Music Magazine” | EROICA |
Melt down or hand down | RENDER |
Does some cramming | STUFFS |
With something taken off | ONSALE |
Iconic peace officer | EARP |
Name in the news since 1851 | REUTERS |
Evidential intro | ITSEEMS |
One in the lead | STAR |
Groom’s growing concern | MANE |
Supplementary details | ANDS |
Tours de force | GEMS |
“Home Improvement” prop | TOOLBELT |
Any of three in “Macbeth” Act 4 | PROPHECY |
Is with you | AGREES |
Is unobliged to | NEEDNT |
Find My Shade online quiz offerer | CLAIROL |
“The backbone of the Marines” | PFCS |
Galahad garb | ARMOUR |
__’s Kiss (Act III of a Rostand play) | ROXANE |
Excess of affection | DOTAGE |
Cinematic convention for conveying a concept | TROPE |
Song releases, in the music business | SIDES |
Very soon after | UPON |
Trivia | NITS |
Homie | PAL |
What a Washington portraitist wasn’t called | GIL |