NewsDay Crossword December 17 2022 Answers

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