Newsday Crossword December 13, 2025 Answers

Across

Led to lineally5 Insubstantial4 Side of ribs4 Tools for hand-made products5 Eminently pickable4 Eminently pickable4 Capital within 500 mi. of 40% of all in the US10 Inimitable4 Performing in concert7 Dadgum7 Authoritative quote source4 Staple of West African cuisine3 Bugs Bunny wore its uniform in '434 Look-both-ways guy5 Purity standard5 Head of a table6 Net speed8 "I'm stumped!"15 Tomfoolery8 Effortful freighting6 Close ones5 Move low and slow5 Hand salute4 Small change3 Sophia, shortly4 Chilling thing7 Look-both-ways traveler7 Many minutos4 "Let's get started!"10 Inauspiciousness interjection4 Misarticulate4 Medieval marauders5 Take for a ride4 Bit of bioplastic4 Caught up?5

Down

Cabbage or clams5 Part of the earliest pianos5 Major functions5 Making a point5 Poor Richard's cure-all herb4 Missourian in the Capitol's Statuary Hall6 "Not a thread in all __ raiment": Poe3 Where Taylor Swift kept "many indie bands"4 Prime minister at Elizabeth II's coronation5 Coastal ecosystem9 Gamer's acquisition activity9 Islander redhead in Canadian kid lit4 Winnow (out)4 Nine counties around Western estuaries7 Incredulously7 Fowl much-mistaken for ducks7 Enthusiastically accepts7 Viscosity std. setter3 Swatch of suiting?4 Midshipman opponent in the annual Crab Bowl4 Dry-__ (tenderized, as T-bones)4 Come into one's own4 What the Emmys are named for9 You be the judge9 Windows 95 introduction7 Vikes' strikes3 Much-watched after-dark streaming6 Head honchos?5 Skunky essence5 Concise comforter5 Apocryphal5 Feeling sore5 Taj Mahal builder, e.g.4 Book of Marvels of the World author (c. 1300)4 Get going4 Not much change4 Pepsi's root beer3