Newsday.com - December 21 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Newsday.com - Dec 21 2019  

Clues	Answers
''Daughter of the wind'' plant	ANEMONE
''Extreme Weather'' author	ALROKER
''Gotcha''	OKAY
''Regina'' counterpart	REX
''You are not an __ less than they'': Whitman	IOTA
''__ law is unjust . . .'': Jefferson	IFA
12 preceder	PAC
Abdicates responsibility	PUNTS
Airport-closing visibility	ZEROZERO
Alleghenies' ''Railroad City''	ALTOONA
Backstage staff	DRESSERS
Battle of the Bulge forest	ARDENNES
Be affected by	FEEL
Bike's low handle	DROPBAR
Brag about	TRUMPET
Change of plans	NEWAPPROACH
Common Parisian prename	RENE
Comparable level	PAR
Confined	LOCAL
Court order	OYEZ
Curl, at times	REP
Curved shape of some mirrors	OGEE
Dear relative	HONEY
Do a balancing act?	PAYUP
Excessive interest	MANIA
First Amendment restriction	GAGLAW
Fog machine user of yore	ROLLERDISCO
Folcare and Pilogro, generically	ROGAINE
Fresh again	RESTED
Get to	ROIL
Haberdashery array	SIZES
Head & Shoulders sister brand	PANTENE
HR might pay for them	RELOS
Hybrid that runs on grass	BEEFALO
Inedible spreadable	RUMOR
It's poured from ''tokkuri''	SAKE
Kid's art supply	POSTERPAINT
Less	LOWERPRICED
Less lumbering	SLEEKER
Less than nothing, for short	NEG
Loofah alternative	WASHRAG
Mad-dash metaphor	RATRACE
Melodrama focus	HEROINE
Mining by-product	OPENPIT
Name of a doll in the Toy Hall of Fame	ANN
New Yorker's hero	TORPEDO
Out of sight	OBSCURED
Out-and-out	PURE
Preparing to steal, perhaps	ONFIRST
Press passes?	IRONING
Put forth	EXERTED
Rest (on)	PERCH
Room on a ship	STOWAGE
Serve	WAITON
Source of many stings	REDANTS
Taj Mahal distinctive feature	DOME
Tender since 2009	BITCOIN
To whom ''. . . sweet sorrow . . .'' is said	ROMEO
Type of hair dryer	TOWEL
Undisciplined	LOOSE
Venerable synchronous orbiter	MOON
Voice of 'Puter in ''The Lego Batman Movie''	SIRI
Went for	ELECTED
What's in many a glove	LISLE
Whom Aristotle mentions in ''On the Parts of Animals''	AESOP
Word from Old English for ''malefactor''	SCATHE
__ Fest (annual Nashville bash)	CMA
__ weather	SWEATER