Newsday.com Dec 9 2020 Crossword Solutions

 Newsday.com - Dec 9 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''He did it!''	HIM
''Old McDonald'' ender	EIEIO
10% donation	TITHE
5 Across ingredient	ALOE
ABCs of a subject	BASICS
Almighty of Islam	ALLAH
Annoyed	ATEAT
Baseball great Ripken	CAL
Baseballer's protective wear	BATTINGHELMET
Be a drain on	SAP
Be an annoyance to	PEEVE
Bolt of lightning	FLASH
Boys in the family	SONS
Chose, with ''for''	OPTED
Color of the ocean	AQUA
Cop's protective wear	BULLETPROOFVEST
Cubes in a cocktail	ICE
Deserves to get	EARNS
Dollar sign shape	ESS
Eclair or cinnamon bun	PASTRY
En __ (as a large group)	MASSE
Extremely eager	RABID
Factory worker's protective wear	STEELTOESHOES
Fast-spreading Web posts	MEMES
Faux __ (error in etiquette)	PAS
Feeling tense	ONEDGE
Fey of TV	TINA
Former soldier, for short	VET
Former Swedish automaker	SAAB
Game for tot sluggers	TBALL
Gauge showing revs	TACH
Go off, as explosives	DETONATE
Greek liqueur	OUZO
Health insurance grps	HMOS
Heating duct	VENT
Identical	SAME
Laughs or gasps, say	REACTS
Leave a highway	EXIT
Letters after sigmas	TAUS
Light-rail car	TRAM
Low-voiced singer	BASS
Lumberjack's choppers	AXES
Minor quarrel	SPAT
Mirror view	IMAGE
Mom's sister	AUNT
Netlike fabric	MESH
Nothing at all	NIL
Of punishment	PENAL
Parcel out	ALLOT
Poker hand fees	ANTES
Prefix for final or sweet	SEMI
Raison d'__	ETRE
Rental agreement	LEASE
Rice dish of Spain	PAELLA
Right away, in a memo	ASAP
Russian autocrat of old	CZAR
Sacred	HOLY
Shipped off	SENT
Soft ''Hey you!''	PSST
Solemn pledge	OATH
Soothing ointment	BALM
Steer clear of	ELUDE
Suffix for percent	ILE
Taking quite a while	LONG
Texas site to ''Remember''	THEALAMO
Tooth's exterior	ENAMEL
Touch on the shoulder	TAP
Touched on the head	PATTED
Toward the back of a boat	AFT
Using few words	TERSE
Web address starter	HTTP
Website info page	FAQS
Wedding assent	IDO
What ''cookies'' starts with	HARDC
Without help	ALONE
Your sister's daughters	NIECES