Newsday.com Dec 30 2020 Puzzle Solutions

 Newsday.com - Dec 30 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''A __ formality!''	MERE
''Beg pardon . . .''	AHEM
''Gladiator'' star	CROWE
''When pigs fly!''	NEVER
After-school meeting org	PTA
All eyes and ears	ALERT
Ante- relative	PRE
Baloney peddler	LIAR
Barbershop call	NEXT
Burning up	ONFIRE
Capital of Bangladesh	DHAKA
Cause of quaking	FEAR
Compare	LIKEN
Cyber-mag	EZINE
Danish flavor	PRUNE
Decorative water pitcher	EWER
Dentist's request	OPEN
Distort	SKEW
Drum kit part	SNARE
Dukes it out, in practice	SPARS
Far from cramped	ROOMY
Food Network hosts	CHEFS
Give the thumbs down to	NIX
Good with tools, say	HANDY
Government honcho	CZAR
Greek drink	OUZO
Gumbo veggie	OKRA
Hit the hammock	REST
Huge expanse	SEA
Impostors	SHAMS
In need of a rubdown	SORE
In position	SET
Meadow mother	EWE
Mine find	ORE
Mosque book	KORAN
Moves furtively	SKULKS
Nada	ZERO
Name of 23 popes	JOHN
Nervous giggle	TEHEE
Nonpayer's risk, for short	REPO
Not often	ONRAREOCCASION, EVERYNOWANDTHEN, FROMTIMETOTIME
One of the Brontë sisters	ANNE
Overly thin	BONY
Parties with poi	LUAUS
Perform perfectly	NAIL
Pungent bulb	ONION
Puppy pickup spot	NAPE
Rationed, with ''out''	DOLED
Saver of the day	HERO
Secured, as a victory	ICED
Seer's reading	PALM
Show off one's muscles	FLEX
Sign of bad radio reception	STATIC
Somewhat, in music	POCO
Spain's longest river	EBRO
Spiral shape	HELIX
Sporting blade	EPEE
State categorically	AVOW
Street eatery	CAFE
Striped equine	ZEBRA
Stubble remover	RAZOR
Sty cry	OINK
Tandem bike's capacity	TWO
Tell's missile	ARROW
The lowdown	INFO
Third-party account	ESCROW
Time of anticipation	EVE
Tom of Twain novels	SAWYER
Towel material	TERRY
Triangular sail	JIB
Uncle Sam's land, humorously	USOFA
Was in first place	LED
Wiped clean	ERASED
Yalies	ELIS
[Not my mistake]	SIC
__ room (place to play)	REC