Newsday.com - December 27 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solution

Newsday.com - Dec 27 2019

Clues	Answers
''Avril'' follower	MAI
''Butter Battle Book'' faction	YOOKS
''Casablanca'' role	ILSA
''Christina's World'' artist	WYETH
''Havana'' actress	OLIN
''Lost World'' beast	TREX
''Simpsons'' bus driver	OTTO
''Ta-ta!''	IMOFF
''__ Is Born''	ASTAR
'60s sitcom kid, for short	BEAV
AOL et al	ISPS
Arrogant one	SNOB
As well	TOO
Assemble a scarf	KNIT
Attraction	DRAW
Brewer or Pirate	NLER
Bunco-squad concern	FRAUD
Cause for alarm	SCARE
Chapters of history	WARS
Charged particle	ION
Church councils	SYNODS
Closes in on	NEARS
Common bio subtitle	ALIFE
Creator of Jett in ''Giant''	EDNA
Deadlocked	TIED
Do word processing	EDIT
Fairy-tale creature	TROLL
Five-spot	ABE
French Sudan, today	MALI
Genesis city	SODOM
Gets around	SKIRTS
Green-light	OKAY
In the short term	FORNOW
Is not up to snuff	WONTDO
Jazz instrument	SAX
Knowing about	ONTO
Lack of movement	INACTION
Miami suburb	DORAL
MPG agency	EPA
Newton formulation	LAW
Norse god	ODIN
Outcome	RESULT
Overlook	OMIT
Pack (away)	STOW
Power source	MOTOR
Pro __	TEM
Property attachments	LIENS
Returns data: Abbr	SSNS
Rihanna's music	RANDB
Santa __ winds	ANA
Scintilla	IOTA
Scottish landowner	LAIRD
Scuba gear	SNORKEL
Second starter	NANO
Sheer delight	BLISS
Showed happiness, maybe	WEPT
Singer Lopez	TRINI
Slips into	DONS
Start again, as talks	REOPEN
Steel city	ESSEN
Stitched	SEWN
Sure winners	SHOOINS
The whole shebang	ALL
Throw about	STREW
Totaled	RANTO
Totally	EVERYBIT
Tugs at	PULLS
uBid.com competitor	EBAY
Uncertain	INDOUBT
Unimportant	MICKEYMOUSE, PENNYANTE, OFNOACCOUNT, SMALLTIME
Varied: Abbr	MISC
Volatile liquid	NITRO
Went after	SETAT
Zero-star	POOR
__ colada	PINA