Newsday.com - December 22 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com - Dec 22 2019  

Clues	Answers
''Black gold''	TEXASTEA
''Famous'' cookie man	AMOS
''La Bohème'' character	MIMI
''Me too''	ASAMI
''My mistake!''	OOPS
''Oliver Twist'' villain	FAGIN
''Ship of the desert''	CAMEL
''You're correct''	RIGHT
Actor Rob	LOWE
Actress Hatcher	TERI
Actress Merrill	DINA
Advanced degrees: Abbr	PHDS
Ancient Mideast civilization	ELAM
Approximator's phrase	ORSO
Arizona Indian	HOPI
Arrive at	GETTO
Author Fleming	IAN
Author Haley	ALEX
Baker who sings	ANITA
Banquet hors d'oeuvres	SWEDISHMEATBALLS
Biological grouping	SPECIES
Blazing	AGLARE
Bodybuilder	HEMAN
Breakfast bread	ENGLISHMUFFIN
Breakfast order	CANADIANBACON
Brief missive	NOTE
Bringing up the rear	LAST
Brother of Prometheus	ATLAS
Bygone bird	DODO
Change for a five	ONES
Charlton Heston role	ELCID
Closet array	ATTIRE
Cologne's river	RHINE
Course hazard	SANDTRAP
Crude group	OPEC
Devour	EATUP
Diary length, often	YEAR
Digital forerunner	ANALOG
Din from a crowd	CLAMOR
Do a vet's job	SPAY
Doc bloc	AMA
Doo-wop group at Woodstock	SHANANA
Exist	ARE
Expeditious	RAPID
Fast-food order	FRENCHFRIES
Female prophets	SIBYLS
Fence made of stakes	PALISADE
Flintstones' pet	DINO
Floor noise	CREAK
Football great Tarkenton	FRAN
Frayed	WORN
Gives a title to	NAMES
GNP, e.g	STAT
Gold-medal Olympic skater Rodnina	IRINA
Got to work	BEGAN
Had aspirations	HOPED
Have the lead	STAR
Helper: Abbr	ASST
High point	ACME
Hire	ENGAGE
Holiday event	PARADE
Hot times on the Riviera	ETES
India.__ of R&B	ARIE
Inedible orange	OSAGE
Ineffectual one	WIMP
Insult, informally	DIS
Internet address	URL
It may be bright	IDEA
Jane Austen novel	EMMA
Kimono closer	SASH
Knock for a loop	STUN
License plates	TAGS
Loathe	HATE
Long-eared leapers	HARES
Lynx or leopard	CAT
Many a reef, essentially	CORAL
Menu phrase	ALA
Mideast dish	PILAF
Mythical king	MIDAS
Narc's org	DEA
NASA spacewalk	EVA
NBC show since 1975	SNL
Nose-in-air type	SNOB
One way to be paid	INCASH
One's ''who's who''	ALIST
One-dimensional	LINEAR
Opposite of paleo-	NEO
Oxen link	YOKE
Pacific island kingdom	TONGA
Pantry feature	SHELF
Pellet precipitation	HAIL
Plain, in a way	UNCOLORED
Porpoise	SEAHOG
Prefix for legal	PARA
Puts the collar on	NABS
QB's mishaps	INTS
Qum resident	IRANI
Rank above Major: Abbr	LTCOL
Record holders	SLEEVES
Remove, as rinds	PARE
Rent-__	ACAR
Rescued damsel's cry	MYHERO
Rich dessert	GERMANCHOCOLATECAKE
Royal address	SIRE
Sales rep	AGT
Saudi Arabia neighbor	YEMEN
Shore bird	GULL
Sociologist Shere	HITE
Solitary	LONE
Some verse writers	ODISTS
Sort of stock-market order	STOPLOSS
Spicy side dish	SPANISHRICE
Spicy stew	HUNGARIANGOULASH
Spiny houseplant	ALOE
Stair component	TREAD
Starts asking questions	FIRESAWAY
State of matter	SOLID
Take steps	ACT
Tango quorum	TWO
These: Sp	ESTAS
Time period	ERA
Tomato type	ROMA
Traditional knowledge	LORE
Transfixed	RAPT
Transgressions	SINS
Tributes	HOMAGES
Triple-decker treat	OREO
Trumpet call	CLARION
TV equine of yore	MRED
Vegan staple	TOFU
Video game pioneer	ATARI
Where K2 is	ASIA
Withstand	ENDURE
Words of wisdom	ADAGES
Writer Rand	AYN
You must remember this	ALAMO
Zero	NIL
__ Alto, CA	PALO
__ annum	PER
__ lazuli	LAPIS
__ out a living	EKE
__-cone	SNO