Newsday.com - Dec 27 2015 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - Dec 27 2015 Sunday

Clues	Answers
''Beats me!''	IDUNNO
''Ciao!''	TATA
''Common sense __''	ISNT
''Star Wars'' princess	LEIA
''What a pity''	ALAS
''__ Misérables''	LES
Advil alternative	ALEVE
Air of mystery	AURA
Alphabetic trio	STU
Ankle-length dress	MAXI
Arizona Native American	HOPI
Ashley Judd's sister	WYNONNA
Aurora's Greek counterpart	EOS
Austen novel	EMMA
Bank take-back, for short	REPO
Be	EXIST
Be equal (to)	AMOUNT
Become cohesive	GEL
Brings to bear	USES
Bump into	MEET
Car with a four-ring logo	AUDI
Categorize	SORT
Center of activity	LOCUS
Circus performer	ACROBAT
Classic castaway	CRUSOE
Classroom accessory	ERASER
Coffee tidbit	BEAN
Cotton bundle	BALE
Cynical response	IBET
Doubt-ridden	INSECURE
Drive-__ window	THRU
Dutch river	AMSTEL
Engage	HIRE
Envelope abbr	ATTN
Fall back	RECEDE
Fiber source	BRAN
Fir tree	BALSAM
Flash-drive plug-in place	PORT
Fledgling	NESTER
Formal orders	DECREES
Friend in the 'hood	HOMIE
Frigidaire alternative	AMANA
Fritter away	WASTE
From here __ (henceforth)	ONIN
Gave up a seat	STOOD
Genesis peak	ARARAT
Golf standards	PARS
Got smart, with ''up''	WISED
Grazing ground	LEA
Greatly	ALOT
Group of Girl Scouts	TROOP
Hardships	WOES
Highest sudoku digit	NINE
Hold in check	REIN
Holiday lead-ins	EVES
In better order	TIDIER
In two	APART
In-basket sheet	MEMO
Ink mishap	BLOT
Innkeeper	HOST
Iowa State's city	AMES
iPhone add-ins	APPS
Kanye West's music	RAP
Keg contents	BEER
Key with four sharps: Abbr	EMAJ
Knocks on the noggin	BOPS
Lasagna features	LAYERS
Lavish parties	FETES
Lease signer	RENTER
Literary celebrity	LION
Lofty dignity	MAJESTY
Long-legged shorebird	AVOCET
Lost beasts of rhyme	SHEEP

Clues	Answers
Lowest sudoku digits	ONES
Lures successfully	ENSNARES
Maritime predator	ORCA
Money-back offer	REBATE
Monocle glass	LENS
Most populous NATO member	USA
Move suddenly	DART
Multitude	LEGION
Mystery novelist Buchanan	EDNA
National hero of 39 Down	ELCID
Neighbor of Francia	ESPANA
Night school subj	ESL
Noah Webster went there	YALE
Old enough to vote	OFAGE
Operatic solo	ARIA
Optical device	LASER
Overload preventer	FUSE
Overly	TOO
Painter Wyeth	ANDREW
Part of ''GWTW''	GONE
Part of a simplicity simile	ABC
Part of ICBM	INTER
Party giveaways	SWAG
Paycheck deduction fig	FICA
Percolate	OOZE
Places to build on	SITES
Poke fun at	KID
Pork cut	LOIN
Practically undetectable	BARELYTHERE
Predatory bird	SHRIKE
Pretended to be	APED
Prickly flora	CACTI
Professorial employment feature	TENURETRACK
Prove suitable for	BEFIT
Quite similar	AKIN
Real estate abbr	RMS
Register total	COST
Rooster's walk	STRUT
Rug rat	TOT
Salsa ingredient	ONION
Save for later	STORE
Scholar's award	GRANT
Selected	OPTEDFOR
Set straight	ORIENT
Shell game	SCAM
Shifter's choice	GEAR
Sleepwear part	PAJAMABOTTOMS
Smeltery supplies	ORES
Soldier's battle dress	COMBATFATIGUES
Some commercial ferries	HYDROFOILS
Some Halloween décor	WEBS
Stallion or stag	MALE
Steam engine inventor	WATT
Subordinate: Abbr	ASST
Successor of the mark	EURO
Suffix for slogan	EER
Suffix like -let	ETTE
Surnames hidden backwards in the six other long answers	PRESIDENTS
Takes down a peg	ABASES
Tear down	RAZE
Three-hulled boat	TRIMARAN
Tie at anchor	MOOR
Title given to Hitchcock	SIR
Toledo's water	ERIE
Tot's plea	CANI
United Kingdom citizen, formerly	BRITISHSUBJECT
Vegas entertainment	REVUE
Verdi opera	AIDA
Was successful	DIDIT
Wide-ranging	BROAD
Worker protection agcy	OSHA
Yearn (for)	ACHE
__ Scott decision	DRED