NewsDay Crossword December 25 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• Exams for some college srs.
  GMATS
• Is overproud
  BOASTS
• Stop insisting
  BACKOFF
• Actress Zellweger
  RENEE
• Choice word
  EITHER
• Embarrassing error
  BLOOPER
• Line from ‘The Christmas Waltz’
  CANDLESGLEAMINGINSIDE
• Spanish article
  UNA
• Drain-cleaner ingredient
  LYE
• Diamond official
  UMP
• Razorbill birds
  AUKS
• Insignificant detail
  NIT
• Group of wolves or lies
  PACK
• ‘Li’l Abner’ cartoonist
  ALCAPP
• Symbol in Tolkien novels
  RUNE
• Transgressions
  SINS
• Standard of excellence
  IDEAL
• Summer Games org.
  IOC
• Designer Cassini
  OLEG
• Flora + fauna
  BIOTA
• Line from ‘Jingle Bells’
  DASHINGTHROUGHTHESNOW
• Opposite of paleo-
  NEO
• Where the buoys are
  SEA
• Spots for cookouts
  PATIOS
• CD ancestors
  LPS
• AMA members
  DRS
• Name that means ‘sorceress’
  SYBIL
• Leave port
  SETSAIL
• King Charles __
  III
• Selects, so to speak
  TAPS
• __ day (frequent vitamin dose)
  ONEA
• Prefix for present
  OMNI
• Line from ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town’
  BEGOODFORGOODNESSSAKE
• Reverberate
  ECHO
• Loose soil
  DIRT
• Latch (onto)
  GLOM
• Meditative sect
  ZEN
• Nation surrounded by South Africa
  LESOTHO
• Rodeo accessory
  LASSO
• Most Wanted List compiler
  FBI
• Mag execs, for short
  EDS
• Limits risk
  HEDGES
• Mean, to a statistician: Abbr.
  AVG
• Part of TGIF
  ITS
• Line from ‘Let It Snow! . . .’
  THEFIREISSODELIGHTFUL
• Varnish source
  RESIN
• Pays for
  BUYS
• Main color of a Santa suit
  RED
• Not exactly, conversationally
  SORTA
• S&L customer
  ACCT
• Brief upturn
  BLIP
• Shooting star
  METEOR
• Star of the ‘Ocean’s’ films
  PITT
• RR stop
  STA
• Ruminate
  MULL
• Haddock cousin
  COD
• Cut (off)
  LOP
• Deep black
  JET
• Line from ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’
  HAPPYGOLDENDAYSOFYORE
• Straight up
  ERECTLY
• ‘Forget it’
  NODICE
• Climb up
  SCALE
• Got angry
  SEETHED
• Balance-sheet details
  ASSETS
• Showed disapproval
  TSKED

DOWN

• Alhambra’s locale
  GRANADA
• Threatens
  MENACES
• In addition
  AND
• Relate
  TELL
• Informal farewell
  SEEYA
• Command to a canine
  BEG
• Salad dressing ingredient
  OIL
• Devoured
  ATEUP
• Hotel freebie
  SHAMPOO
• Fill-in worker
  TEMP
• __ Lanka
  SRI
• Pellet shooter
  BBGUN
• Similarly
  ALIKE
• One side of an issue
  CONS
• Bout enders
  KOS
• Point of view
  OPINION
• Was a tributary of
  FEDINTO
• Furniture maker’s tool
  FRETSAW
• Matchmaker of 116 Down
  CUPID
• Former commissioner of baseball
  SELIG
• Zilch
  NAUGHT
• Actress Madeline
  KAHN
• Bivouac beds
  COTS
• Sore spots
  ACHES
• Entertained lavishly
  REGALED
• Family member
  SIS
• Deceived
  LIEDTO
• Ida of ’40s/’50s films
  LUPINO
• Outdo
  BEST
• US/Canada defense group
  NORAD
• Sunbeam
  RAY
• ‘__ the season . . .’
  TIS
• Ground-breaking implement
  HOE
• Type of tort
  LIBEL
• Portion
  PIECE
• Sounds relieved
  SIGHS
• Sunscreen letters
  SPF
• Part of a Santa costume
  BOOTS
• Nine-symbol message
  SOS
• Flabbergast
  AMAZE
• Signed, as a contract
  INKED
• Property claims
  LIENS
• Product of a certain farm
  SOD
• Director __ Lee
  ANG
• Tic-tac-toe victory
  OOO
• Gets angry
  RILESUP
• Like lawns
  GRASSY
• Santa subordinate
  ELF
• Edna Ferber novel
  SOBIG
• Craftspersons
  SMITHS
• Sparsely distributed
  THIN
• Every other hurricane
  HER
• Rhapsodic verse
  ODE
• Downcast
  SAD
• Out in the open
  OVERT
• Boon for WWII vets
  GIBILL
• Great joy
  GLEE
• Cool it
  STOP
• Speaks ill of
  TRASHES
• About 2.5 acres
  HECTARE
• Person on the run
  ESCAPEE
• In good shape
  FIT
• Seven-sibling performing family
  OSMONDS
• Role models
  IDOLS
• Mexican bean
  FRIJOLE
• Spoke
  UTTERED
• Italian word for ‘milk’
  LATTE
• Reveille player
  BUGLE
• Frank __ Wright
  LLOYD
• Murphy of ‘Shrek’
  EDDIE
• Place to perch
  ROOST
• Ancient legend
  MYTH
• Corporate brass
  CEOS
• Single-stripe GIs
  PFCS
• %
  PCT
• Crime scene evidence
  DNA
• Pretense
  ACT
• ‘You bet!’
  YES
• Talk too much
  YAK