NewsDay Crossword December 23 2022 Answers

• What the OED monitors
  WDS
• Pop
  DADDY
• Outfits for brokers
  FIRMS
• Shakespeare’s ‘shake a leg’
  HIE
• Grammy Award category
  OPERA
• Immobile
  INERT
• SEALs’ service
  USN
• With 60 Across, the message’s slanted place
  UPPERLEFTTO
• Mrs. __ (‘Beauty and the Beast’ teakettle)
  POTTS
• Stamp on sirloin
  USDA
• First ‘speaker’ in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
  LION
• Gets ready, as a range
  PREHEATS
• Sitcom medium
  BLURAY
• Novelist Buchanan
  EDNA
• Sandwich selections
  RYES
• Chopped down
  AXED
• Tenth of a statistical sample
  DECILE
• Charlie Brown outburst
  RATS
• Amber and balsam
  RESINS
• Turn a Monopoly corner
  PASSGO
• Singer in ‘Blazing Saddles’
  KAHN
• Curie’s homeland
  POLAND
• Look amazed
  GAPE
• Nirvana seeker
  YOGI
• Setting of Munch’s ‘Scream’
  OSLO
• Couturier offering ‘Collezioni’
  ARMANI
• Enters abruptly
  BURSTSIN
• Many trains, trucks and tractors
  TOYS
• Danish Physics Nobelist
  BOHR
• Something to take or drop
  AHINT
• See 18 Across
  BOTTOMRIGHT
• Amazon hunter in packs
  EEL
• Prove useful
  AVAIL
• Nickname like Beth
  ELLIE
• __ Lanka
  SRI
• Tightly wound
  TENSE
• Coasters for the outdoors
  SLEDS
• Poetic monogram
  TSE

• Defeated, la Ali
  WHUPPED
• Mayhem
  DISORDER
• What this clue is
  SENTENCE
• Plunge into water
  DOUSE
• Cell add-on
  APP
• Cabinet subordinate
  DEPUTY
• Theatrical aide
  DRESSER
• Furlong fraction
  YARD
• Something the Giant said
  FIE
• Mass arrival
  INFLUX
• Call it a night
  RETIRE
• ‘Wind in the Willows’ character
  MRTOAD
• Emotionless
  STONY
• Common service dog
  LAB
• Southeast Asians
  THAIS
• Place for a ticket office
  ARENA
• Rodeo prop
  LASSO
• Vermont harvest
  SAP
• Compare
  LIKEN
• Swinelike mammal
  TAPIR
• Self-effacing
  SHY
• Disinclination to exertion
  SLOTH
• Most long-winded
  GASSIEST
• Web regulars
  ONLINERS
• Where San Francisco’s best hotels are
  NOBHILL
• ‘Tell it like it is!’
  DONTLIE
• Smooth routine
  GROOVE
• ‘The Chinese Siamese Cat’ author
  AMYTAN
• Anise-flavored liqueur
  PASTIS
• Water cooler sound
  GURGLE
• Hitting now
  ATBAT
• Big name in cloud computing
  IBM
• Overindulges
  SATES
• Rocky natural resources
  ORES
• Chanter’s cheer
  OLE
• Didn’t show
  HID