News Day Crossword Puzzle Answers December 24 2017

Clue	Solution
__ Gabriel Mountains	SAN
". . . __ and a button nose . . ."	WITHACORNCOBPIPE
". . . but the children know __ . . ."	HOWHECAMETOLIFEONEDAY
". . . Don't you cry, __"	ILLBEBACKAGAINSOMEDAY
". . . He began to __ . . ."	DANCEAROUND
"Permission granted"	YOUMAY
"Simpsons" grandpa	ABE
"South Park" boy	KENNY
"Understood"	IGOTCHA
A Bobbsey twin	NAN
Academic period	TERM
Actor Hawke	ETHAN
Address an audience	ORATE
Amalgamation	UNION
Amateur	NONPRO
Art in a park	STATUE
Athens eatery	TAVERNA
Austrian peak	ALP
Behavior to avoid	NONO
Ben-__ (Heston role)	HUR
Bigwigs	NABOBS
Blixen's pen name	DINESEN
Border on	ABUT
Boutique	SHOP
Boy Scout Law adjective	LOYAL
Cambodia neighbor	LAOS
Canoe implement	OAR
Car with no gas tank	TESLA
Certain vaccine's target	TETANUS
Comics bulldog	OTTO
Compass reading	ENE
Continental prefix	AFRO
Day planner abbr.	THU
Director Buñuel	LUIS
Durable hardwood	TEAK
East Asian capital	SEOUL
Eminent anthropologist	MEAD
Energetic	SPRY
Everyone	HUMANS
Family members	KIN
Feminizing suffix	ENNE
First course of a sort	SALAD
Five-star	TOPRATED
Foolish one	DOLT
France's patron saint	DENIS
Furthermore	ALSO
German mathematician	GAUSS
Goblin starter	HOB
Grammy category	OPERA
Green beverage	LIMEADE
Hankering	ITCH
Heights of perfection	ACMES
Hog-calling shout	SOOEY
Hot under the collar	IRATE
Hourglasses, for instance	TIMERS
How a dog is walked	ONALEAD
In working order	OPERATING
Infant's ailment	COLIC
Informal refusal	NAH
Innocent one	LAMB
It means "both"	AMBI
Kid's coat closer	SNAP
Kids' shoebox projects	DIORAMAS
Large collection	BEVY
Large primate	APE
Ledger entry	DEBIT
Londoner's lav	LOO
Made sure of	SAWTO
Main course	ENTREE
Make a mess of things	ERR
Makes known	LETSON
Makes one's home	RESIDES
Many coll. professors	DRS
Margarine holder	TUB
Me, in Marseilles	MOI
Meander	ROAM
Mexican shawl	SERAPE
Midmorning hr.	TENAM
Molecular makeup	ATOMS
More spirited	LUSTIER
Mutt	CUR
Neighbor of Peru	ECUADOR
Novelist Jong	ERICA
Occult activities	SEANCES
Offer as explanation	POSIT
Out-of-date, for short	OBS
Palette array	HUES
Pandemonium	CHAOS
Paramedic designation	EMT
Passover feast	SEDER
Perpetual	ETERNAL
Person on commission	SALESREP
Place for peas	SEEDPOD
Planted, as seeds	SOWED
Played a flute	TOOTLED
Portuguese woman	SENHORA
Possessive pronoun	OUR
Pungent or popular	HOT
Radar reading	SPEED
Rainbow's location	SKY
Real hoot	RIOT
Regarding	ASTO
Rhett Butler's last word	DAMN
Santa assistant	ELF
Santa's burden	SACK
Say again	ECHO
Shia of the Transformers films	LABEOUF
Single statistic	DATUM
Spa staffer	MASSEUR
Spiral shape	COIL
Sports replay mode	SLOMO
Stable gear	BRIDLES
State-run game	LOTTO
Stops hiking for a bit	RESTS
Street where Elizabeth Barrett lived	WIMPOLE
Study a script	READ
Subject of the carol lines	FROSTYTHESNOWMAN
Successful legislation	ACTS
Suze of personal finance	ORMAN
Swimmer's ailment	EARACHE
Tai __ (martial art)	CHI
Title in Uncle Remus tales	BRER
Trattoria beverage	ESPRESSO
Unfortunate	SAD
University near Boston	TUFTS
Unlike rolling stones, supposedly	MOSSY
Unpleasant task	ONUS
Used for dinnerware	ATEON
Venomous snake	ASP
Venomous snakes	MAMBAS
Ventilation tube	DUCT
Vintage-phone trio	PRS
Viral Web phenomenon	MEME
Vivid crayon category	NEON
Wanderer's adventure	ODYSSEY
What might fill a mill	SEASALT
Wicker material	RATTAN
Winery employees	TASTERS
Winter Olympics race	SLALOM
Without help	ALONE