Newsday.com Dec 29 2020 Puzzle Answers

 Newsday.com - Dec 29 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Moby-Dick'' captain	AHAB
''No __, ands, or buts!''	IFS
''Now I get it!''	AHA
Advertising sign gas	NEON
Apex	ACME
Appears to be	SEEMS
Audio system	STEREO
Balkan native	SERB
Beachgoer's building project	SANDCASTLE
Beer variety	PILSNER
Bread purchase	LOAF
Broker's customer: Abbr	ACCT
Chimney grime	SOOT
Clear frost from	DEICE
Clinton's vice president	GORE
Colas and root beers	SODAS
Contented comments from 27 Down	PURRS
Cost	PRICE
Curve of a foot	ARCH
Dangerous driving situation	ROADRAGE
Devout	PIOUS
E-flat equivalent	DSHARP
Easily irritated	TESTY
Family diagrams	TREES
Farm soil	EARTH
Farm storage tower	SILO
Fill with joy	ELATE
Fishing-rod attachment	REEL
Fizzled out	DIED
From the neighborhood	LOCAL
Gaggle member	GOOSE
Game-show host	EMCEE
Garden entrance	GATE
Gawk at	OGLE
Get ready, for short	PREP
Gusto	ZEST
Imitated	APED
Impudent	PERT
In a calm way	SERENELY
Jury member	PEER
Long, long __ (way back when)	AGO
Losing streaks	SLUMPS
Merciless	CRUEL
Midmorning ritual	COFFEEBREAK
Nautical staff	CREW
Norway's capital	OSLO
Not so much	LESS
Numbered musical work	OPUS
Oil cartel	OPEC
Old enough	OFAGE
Once __ blue moon	INA
Operates smoothly	HUMS
Perceived to be	SEENAS
Poems of praise	ODES
Poker-pot starter	ANTE
Popular pets	CATS
Pre-exercise ritual	WARMUP
Puts to work	USES
Scratch or dent	MAR
Set of clothing	OUTFIT
Shares top billing	COSTARS
Ship's backbone	KEEL
Snakelike swimmer	EEL
Speck of dust	MOTE
Squirrel away	HOARD
Step heavily (on)	STOMP
Strictness	RIGOR
Suffix for meteor	ITE
Teacher's favorite	PET
Third-place Olympics award	BRONZEMEDAL
Three feet	YARD
Toledo's state	OHIO
Use scissors	CUT
Very small	TINY
Villain's look	LEER
Walk on the stage	ENTER
What the penny used to be	COPPERCOIN
__ of the above	NONE