Newsday.com - December 25 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 25 2016 

Clues	Answers
''A Christmas Carol'' clerk	BOBCRATCHIT
''Coming __ going out?''	INOR
''I approve!''	GOOD
''Julius Caesar'' conspirator	CASCA
''Jurassic World'' menaces	DINOS
''Knight of the road''	HOBO
''Sunset Boulevard'' star	SWANSON
''The Very Hungry Caterpillar'' author	CARLE
A bit	SOME
Act of twisting	TORSION
Aleppo's land	SYRIA
As compared to	THAN
At leisure	IDLE
Attendees	GOERS
Bakers' implements	PEELS
Barbecue spot	PIT
Bass-baritone Simon	ESTES
Become less intense	MODERATE
Believe in	TRUST
Bird on the back of a buck	EAGLE
Bit of hearsay	RUMOR
Brainchild	IDEA
Burrito alternative	TAMALE
Can't do without	NEED
Cantina order	TACO
Carole who cowrote ''Nobody Does It Better''	BAYERSAGER
Chalet spot	ALP
Chin adornment	GOATEE
Christmas VIP	SANTA
Classic Christmas gifts for kids	SLEDS
Command to a canine	SICEM
Concerning	INRE
Conforms (with)	JIBES
Cozy retreat	INN
Cozy retreats	DENS
Cultivating tool	HOE
Debussy piece	LAMER
Desert plant	ALOE
Didn't mind donating	SPARED
Direction opposite ''norte''	SUR
Distinctive period	ERA
Dress carefully	PREEN
Educator Montessori	MARIA
Ethereal instruments	HARPS
Evade	SIDESTEP
Ex-president who swore in Hoover	TAFT
False show	PRETENSE
Fast punch	JAB
Felipe VI, to his subjects	ELREY
Finger pointers	NAMERS
Flute, for instance	WOODWIND
Gave seconds to	REFED
Golf course teachers	PROS
Greek column type	IONIC
Greenhouse pest	APHID
Half of a Lewis Carroll twosome	TWEEDLEDEE
Have good intentions	MEANWELL
Historical French region	GASCONY
Hoodlum	GOON
In the course of	AMID
In unison	ASONE
Is downcast	MOPES
Ishmael's captain	AHAB
Job bonuses	PERKS
Karol Wojtyla's better-known name	JOHNPAULII
Keel over	SWOON
Keg contents	BEER
Kilo- times 1,000	MEGA
Lasso loop	NOOSE
Lasting mark	SCAR
Mideast airline	ELAL

 

Clues	Answers
Minor falling-out	SPAT
Move higher	RAISE
Mrs. Smith's rival	SARALEE
No longer happening	OVER
No longer squeaking	OILED
Not as fresh	STALER
Not as prevalent	RARER
Old-school cheer	RAH
One of a carol's 11	PIPER
One of Canada's First Nations	CREE
One-spot	ACE
Ones in a hurry	RACERS
Pal of Frodo	SAM
Performs hip-hop	RAPS
Pompeo of ''Grey's Anatomy''	ELLEN
Procrastinate	STALL
Purchase authorization	ORDER
Raise the price of, at auction	BIDUP
Range of Russia	URALS
Religious doctrine	TENET
Rich soil	LOAM
Robin Hood beverage	ALE
Roddenberry, re ''Star Trek''	CREATOR
SeaWorld orca	SHAMU
Second attempts	REDOS
Second word of ''Gone With the Wind''	OHARA
Senior member	DOYEN
Seven-Emmy actor	ASNER
Shape of a rainbow	ARC
Shed tears	WEEP
Sigma follower	TAU
Signal via beeper	PAGE
Singer of Carole King's ''You've Got a Friend''	JAMESTAYLOR
Sitcom where Carroll O'Connor was Helen Hunt's dad	MADABOUTYOU
Slices of a century	DECADES
Social outing	DATE
Some balloon animals	POODLES
Something in the way	OBSTACLE
Speak unclearly	SLUR
Spellbinding speaker	ORATOR
Spiral-horned antelope	ELAND
St. since 1863	WVA
Statistical collection	DATA
Steps off	PACES
Stoops suddenly	DUCKS
Tampa Bay baseballers	RAYS
Tilted	LEANT
Tom Hanks, in ''Sully''	PILOT
Transitional period	PHASE
Twerp	DWEEB
Two-time honor for Joyce Carol Oates	OHENRYAWARD
UK defence arm	RAF
Up to now	ASYET
Use scissors	SHEAR
User-friendly feature	AMENITY
Uses scissors	SNIPS
Uttered	ORAL
Very cold	GELID
Vessel to sail on or drink from	SCHOONER
Weaver in rattan	CANER
Web page ID	URL
What the Carolina Hurricanes won in 2006	STANLEYCUP
Where Biden was senator	DELAWARE
Where Caroll Spinney has been a Bird and a Grouch	SESAMESTREET
Where the Caroline Islands are	NORTHPACIFIC
World Cup cheer	OLE
Wrongdoer	SINNER
Yale student	ELI
__ ''en scène'' (stage setting)	MISE
__ citato (footnote phrase)	OPERE
__ the aisle (theater ticket request)	TWOON