Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - Dec 25, 2014

 Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution  - Dec 25, 2014

Clue	Answer
''Forget it''	NOPE
A single time	ONCE
Abrades	CHAFES
Acclaim	KUDOS
Artist friend of Degas	MANET
Barbecue side dish	SLAW
Becomes tiresome	WEARS
Blanched	PALED
Bookstore category	HUMOR
Carpet surface	PILE
Caustic alkali	LYE
Chem-class expense	LABFEE
Church dignitary	ELDER
City north of Tel Aviv	HAIFA
Col.'s subordinate	MAJ
Creeps up on	NEARS
Cyberzine	EMAG
Dam on the Nile	ASWAN
Delinquent GI	AWOL
Dinner reservations	SEATS
Disagreed	BEGGEDTODIFFER
DNA segment	GENE
Droid download	APP
Earring support	LOBE
Essential thing	NEED
First responders: Abbr	EMTS
Fit for duty	ABLE
Fusses at a mirror	PREENS
Get the pot going	ANTE
Greenhouse gas	OZONE
Herbicide target	WEED
House painter's calculation	AREA
In fine fettle	HALE
In this very place	HERE
Irish dramatist	SHAW
Irish export	LACE
Kitchen enticement	AROMA
Lake that feeds Niagara Falls	ERIE
Likewise not	NOR

Clue	Answer
Membership symbol	PIN
Mixes in	ADDS
Naughts	ZEROS
Needle feature	EYE
Observed furtively	STOLEAGLANCEAT
Opening remarks	INTRO
Org, with online Pets of the Week	ASPCA
Paid parkers	VALETS
Play for a sap	USE
Ponder, with ''on''	CHEW
Portrait on a dime	FDR
Postgame summaries	RECAPS
Pulitzer's New York paper	WORLD
Range of some flutes	ALTO
Revlon rival	AVON
Road shoulder	BERM
Savoir-faire	TACT
Schnitzel meat	VEAL
Seats that hold hymnals	PEWS
Shogun's domain	JAPAN
Short literary work	PIECE
Shout of approval	YES
Showery	WET
Slapstick projectile	PIE
Snarly mess	TANGLE
Something dropped orally	HINT
Splendid formation	ARRAY
Sponge opening	PORE
Street often near Maple and Oak	ELM
Superman's foster parents	KENTS
Think ahead	PLAN
Tolerated	STOOD
Took needless risks	BORROWEDTROUBLE
Trowel cousin	SPADE
Typical emirate subject	ARAB
Verdi heroine	AIDA
Was in the red	OWED
Write-ins, for example	VOTES
Young male zebra	COLT