Newsday Crossword December 20, 2025 Answers

Across

Unreal5 Shawl, for instance4 It's attractive4 Most easily tied5 One on a receiving line4 Dallas Buyers Club Oscar actor4 Pyramid schemes10 Engaged4 Knuckle-head activity6 Apostolic Palace adjective7 Free time5 Isn't consistent6 Give it up13 Sound like a fan3 Animale dello zodiaco5 Gig for a guru5 It surrounds Canada's southernmost land4 Wranglers for a week5 Status4 Prototypical pasta processor5 Capital of Algeria5 Military Families Mo.3 Bunk13 Square, as for satisfaction6 Rapdom's close relative5 Cutting-edge powder source7 "Give it up!"6 Reason for boxing4 Alarmists' antithesis10 Tahiti et autres4 Maintain4 Partner in Niagara Falls hydroelectrification (1890s)5 Erstwhile M&Ms4 Nonmusical drums4 Words for argument's sake5

Down

Excluding3 Not decided4 Most favored4 Spread out, in a way6 Landfill lander7 Your bag10 __ meat3 Expression of condescension4 "A book which people __ and don't read" (Twain on "Classic")6 Word from the Spanish for "little silver"8 Frozen10 What might make you smart5 Fully, these days5 With a steel grip, quite possibly6 Debug?4 Going-away party7 Dropped4 Full4 "This is bliss!"10 Brits who get gin on their birthday10 Trail in good order4 Turns quickly4 "Disorderly" dessert served at a Harrow cricket match8 Oral6 Consequently4 Luger, for instance7 Subject of the literary analysis Angels and Wild Things6 Breaks even6 Pass word5 Beethoven's Fifth soloist5 No nickname for a scriptural slinger4 Outside shot?4 She's name-checked in Wonder's Ellington tribute4 Suit tag trio3 Apt rhyme for "Hey!"3