NewsDay Crossword December 16 2022 Answers

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
  EMAIL
• ‘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