Daily Themed Crossword December 29, 2023, Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• (3/5) Part of a New Year’s countdown… or a trio’s number
  THREE
• ___ humbug!
  BAH
• The chickens have come home to ___
  ROOST
• Oral hygiene-promoting organization: Abbr.
  ADA
• Provide schooling for as students
  EDUCATE
• Hooded serpent with a supportive undergarment hidden in its name
  COBRA
• Reality show judged by Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara: Abbr.
  AGT
• Pig’s sound
  OINK
• Lodging with a keeper
  INN
• Letters that follow cees
  DEES
• Solver of this clue?
  YOU
• Professor’s classroom helpers: Abbr.
  TAS
• ___ Gatos California
  LOS
• Popular sandwich fish with a Spanish number hidden in its name
  TUNA
• Handle clumsily?
  PAW
• Monotonous routine
  RUT
• Quick-witted
  CLEVER
• Like a room lit by a single candle
  DIM
• Sweetie informally
  HON
• Home to Beaver Stadium: Abbr.
  PSU
• Furry hibernating mammal with a drummed organ hidden in its name
  BEAR
• Les Girls actress Taina
  ELG
• Mane safari attraction with a physicist’s particle hidden in its name
  LION
• You can contact me ___ email (through)
  VIA
• Slender wind instrument similar to a Piccolo
  FLUTE
• Cavity-fighting expert
  DENTIST
• A Kiss Before Dying novelist ___ Levin
  IRA
• Big blower in the sea with a hoppy beverage hidden in its name
  WHALE
• Actor Dennehy from Peaky Blinders
  NED
• Of supreme quality say: Hyph.
  AONE

DOWN

• Tire pattern (rhymes with bread)
  TREAD
• ___-podge (messy situation)
  HODGE
• Postman’s trail
  ROUTE
• PC bailout key
  ESC
• Pilot’s This is when we’re landing: Abbr.
  ETA
• Amy Winehouse’s ___ to Black
  BACK
• It’s ___ or die situation!: 2 wds.
  ADO
• Ocean for a dolphin or bamboo forest for a panda
  HABITAT
• Santa’s sackful
  TOYS
• Vowel triplet after a
  EIO
• Single-stranded genetic messenger: Abbr.
  RNA
• Reply to a question for short
  ANS
• Tough ___ to crack
  NUT
• Balkan resident informally
  SLAV
• Be in debt
  OWE
• ___ Geller who is a self-proclaimed psychic
  URI
• Feeling nothing say
  NUMB
• Tuxedoed Antarctic bird with a writer’s tool hidden in its name
  PENGUIN
• White hat wearer in the kitchen
  CHEF
• Hang loose
  LOLL
• Private research university in Troy: Abbr.
  RPI
• Desert mound
  DUNE
• Roll of lawn
  SOD
• Bottled water from France
  EVIAN
• Aircraft walkway
  AISLE
• Give stars to a movie say
  RATE
• Starring role
  LEAD
• Uno due ___
  TRE
• Straight Outta Compton hip hop group: Abbr.
  NWA
• However in text lingo
  THO