Premier Sunday – King Feature Syndicate – Dec 24, 2023, Clues and Answers

Clues Answers
“Adorkable” sort, perhaps NERD
“Buddy Holly” rock band WEEZER
“Fighting” NCAA team ILLINI
“Neon” fishes TETRAS
“Scram!” BEGONE
“Sorta” ISH
“Yeah, dude” IDIG
“— for Murder” (Hitchcock film) DIALM
* Flying Yuletide team REINDEER
* Fourth-day gifts in a Yuletide song CALLINGBIRDS
* Leafy Yuletide door decoration IVYWREATH
* Much-anticipated Yuletide visitor SANTACLAUS
* Phrase from the Yuletide carol “Silent Night” ALLISCALM
* Plant hung up for Yuletide MISTLETOE
* Scrooge in a Yuletide classic EBENEZER
* Time off for Yuletide, say VACATION
* Warming Yuletide drink HOTCIDER
* What “it’s lovely weather for” in a Yuletide tune SLEIGHRIDE
* Yuletide tinsel, ornaments and lights TRIMMINGS
* Yuletide tree, e.g EVERGREEN
Actress Reid TARA
Actress Sorvino MIRA
Adolescent TEEN
Alternatives to escaroles ENDIVES
Apt phrase spelled out by the first letters of the answers to the starred clues CHRISTMASEVE
Arrive at a stop, as a bus PULLIN
Asia’s — Sea ARAL
Astrophysicist — deGrasse Tyson NEIL
Auction site EBAY
Aykroyd of “Coneheads” DAN
Backup strategy PLANB
Bar brew BEER
Be a fan of ADMIRE
Be determined by HINGEON
Be litigious SUE
Bedazzled AWED
Bombardier’s attack AIRRAID
Book leaf FOLIO
Brazilian juice berry ACAI
Brewing fungi YEASTS
Buddy PAL
Camping gear retailer REI
Canadian gas station name ESSO
Capital of Ghana ACCRA
Chichi scarf ASCOT
Chip topper SALSA
Church cries AMENS
Chutzpah GALL
Circle parts ARCS
Circular square dance maneuver DOSIDO
Conference for UC Davis BIGWEST
Detested HATED
Dietary std RDA
Earthen cooking pot OLLA
Eat away (at) GNAW
Edge along SIDLE
Egg-holding capsule OVISAC
Einstein or Camus ALBERT
Empty talk PRATTLE
Epochs AGES
Fashion flair STYLE
Father, to a wee tot DADA
Fed, e.g AGT
Figure skater Dorothy HAMILL
For the stock issue price ATPAR
Forthright DIRECT
Group of nine ENNEAD
High trains ELS
Honda model ACCORD
Ill. neighbor WIS
In tidy order NEAT
In time past AGO
Intl. 1940s conflict WWII
Involving give-and-take TWOWAY
Clues Answers
Jenner of reality TV KRIS
Jessica of “King Kong” LANGE
Jr.’s exam PSAT
Keeps pelting BEATSON
Kind of poker STUD
Knightly title SIR
Lake that feeds the Mississippi ITASCA
Legal claim LIEN
Logging tool AXE
Lost traction SLID
Low voices BASSES
Make — for it (try fleeing) ARUN
Meanie’s look SCOWL
Misstep ERROR
More reasonable SANER
Nav. leader ADM
NFL scores TDS
Office tel. add-on EXT
Once more AGAIN
One-named supermodel IMAN
Online journals BLOGS
Opera queen DIVA
Oral health org ADA
Paper pack REAM
Paris art museum LOUVRE
Parolee, e.g EXCON
Pixar title fish NEMO
President Reagan RONALD
Quality evoking pity PATHOS
Religious branches SECTS
Richard of “First Knight” GERE
Roaring cat LION
Rocket part STAGE
Rotate TURN
Roth of horror films ELI
Scot’s denial NAE
Scrooge’s cry BAH
Seat of Ireland’s County Kerry TRALEE
Seeded loaf RYE
Shared by us OURS
Sigh of relief AAH
Skating jump AXEL
Small wine or oil container CRUSE
Smooth but unconvincing GLIB
Soften EASE
Some toy batteries AAS
Spacek of “Carrie” SISSY
Spock’s pointy part EAR
Subtle distinction NUANCE
Suffix with art IST
Sweater type VNECK
Targets GOALS
Test version BETA
Texters’ playful growl RAWR
Tilted ASLANT
To a huge degree VASTLY
Toon frames CELS
Tooth: Prefix DENTI
Totally spoil RUIN
Tough trial ORDEAL
Transparent, informally SEETHRU
Troubles ILLS
TV trophy EMMY
URL opener HTTP
Vanity EGO
Vid recorder CAM
Wall Street worker TRADER
Wearing stilettos, say INHEELS
Web feed format inits RSS
Word before while ERST
Wray of “King Kong” FAY
Zesty taste TANG
— fire under (stirred up) LITA
— mater ALMA

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