Newsday.com Dec 16 2020 Crossword Solutions

 Newsday.com - Dec 16 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''Beat it!''	SCRAM
''Big Blue''	IBM
''Haven't decided yet''	ILLSEE
''Keep it'' mark	STET
''What ___, chopped liver?''	AMI
), in an emoticon	SMILE
90-degree bend	ELL
Acted bold	DARED
Action-film gun	UZI
Advisory group	CABINET
After-dinner hot drink	TEA
Alphabet opener	ABC
Black-and-white cookie	OREO
Breathed out	EXHALED
Canterbury coins	PENCE
Capital city	SEATOFPOWER
Cereal grain	OAT
Coin with Abe's portrait	PENNY
Contributed, with ''up''	ANTED
Coop brooder	HEN
Cuban leader Castro	RAUL
Deemed worthy of	RATED
Diner loaf	RYE
Director Ang or Spike	LEE
Distribute, with ''out''	DOLE
Dressed like Dracula	CAPED
Early afternoon	ONE
Either of two African nations	CONGO
Emulated a banshee	WAILED
Excellent two-pair hand	ACESUP
Fabricate, as charges	TRUMPUP
Fairly long time	MONTHS
Fashion designer Christian	DIOR
Find a sum of numbers	ADDUP
Firm up, as muscles	TONE
Former Italian coin	LIRA
Gave the cold shoulder to	SHUNNED
Gavel wielder	CHAIRPERSON
Gen-___ (post-boom babies)	XERS
Genetic letters	DNA
Gourmet cook	CHEF
High society	ELITE
Homer Simpson's cry	DOH
ICU workers	RNS
Kind of camera, for short	SLR
Liquor in martinis	GIN
Miscellany abbr	ETC
Money-saving, in brand names	ECONO
Muff a grounder	ERR
Mushroom piece	STEM
New Orleans cuisine	CREOLE
Nuclear reactor part	CORE
Oneness	UNITY
Philip Roth's complainer	PORTNOY
Pitcher's success	WIN
Place for a bout	ARENA
Played for time	STALLED
Pointed at a target	AIMED
Police informer	STOOLPIGEON
Potato or yam	TUBER
Pursuer of Bugs	ELMER
Reagan's chimp costar	BONZO
Retort to ''Am too!''	ARENOT
Rummage (through)	RIFLE
Sailor's shore time	LEAVE
Second-stringer	BENCHWARMER
Shoplifting, e.g	THEFT
Song syllables	LALA
Sonnet creator	POET
Squirrel away	STORE
Stamped return env., for example	ENC
Time past	AGO
Tourist stop	INN
Trail for hounds	SCENT
Treasure find	TROVE
Wall painting	MURAL
Willy Wonka creator	DAHL
__ with faint praise	DAMNS