Newsday.com - December 23 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com - Dec 23 2019

Clues	Answers
''Are we __ yet?''	THERE
''Makes sense to me''	ISEE
''My __ are sealed!''	LIPS
''So what __ is new?''	ELSE
''Steady as __ goes''	SHE
Absolutely perfect	IDEAL
Adored celebrity	IDOL
Army-camp musician	BUGLER
Big sweater size: Abbr	LGE
Bird-feeder food	SEED
Bridle attachment	REIN
Cashew or pecan	NUT
Chimney dust	SOOT
China's continent	ASIA
Clothes-pressing appliance	IRON
College officials	DEANS
Colored part of the eye	IRIS
Cost	PRICE
Crumbly Greek cheese	FETA
December door decoration	WREATH
Difficult	HARD
Dilutes	THINS
Doing nothing	IDLE
Dressed (in)	CLAD
Egypt's capital	CAIRO
Female sheep	EWE
Fix, as a machine	REPAIR
Former Italian money	LIRA
Furious	IRATE
Furnace output	HEAT
Had shed tears	WEPT
Handbag attachment	STRAP
Has a lease	RENTS
Held the deed to	OWNED
Highways: Abbr	RDS
How fries are fried	INOIL
Ice-hockey surface	RINK
Information you wish wasn't so	BADNEWS
Inn for skiers	LODGE
Install on a wall	HANG
Is introduced to	MEETS
Japanese miniature tree	BONSAI
Kitchen or den	ROOM
Lower-level shopping site	BARGAINBASEMENT
Main idea	GIST
Marsh grasses	REEDS
Neighborhood shopping site	GARAGESALE
Offend, informally	MIFF
One of the Great Lakes	ERIE
Operatic solo	ARIA
Outdoor shopping site	FLEAMARKET
Patient-care grp	HMO
Pilot-light appliance	STOVE
Poker hand starter	ANTE
Prefix for freeze	ANTI
Refuses to	WONT
Region	AREA
Scored 100 on	ACED
Sheet of Arctic ice	FLOE
Silly	INANE
Sippers served with sodas	STRAWS
Snakelike fishes	EELS
Social outcast	MISFIT
Soft ''Hey you!''	PSST
Spicy beans/beef dish	CHILI
Springtime songbird	ROBIN
Stopwatch, for example	TIMER
Stray from the script	ADLIB
Suffix for kitchen	ETTE
Take a bold chance	DARE
Take the bus or train	RIDE
Tales	STORIES
Theater walkway	AISLE
Too trusting	NAIVE
Trucker who broadcasts	CBER
Wide belt	SASH
Wood-cutting tools	SAWS
__ the side of caution	ERRON