Newsday Crossword December 21, 2025 Answers

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Minor anomaly4 Out-of-focus photo4 Botanical anchors5 Out of bed5 Nevada resort4 Ill-at-__ (edgy)4 It's west of Montana5 Rueful emotion5 Former Bay Area American Leaguers (H)9 College club jewelry (E)11 450, for Nero3 HMO members3 Ark groups5 Budgetary bigwig, for short3 Canonized femme: Abbr.3 Stage whispers6 + and -5 Prom attendee4 Hem and __3 Eats elegantly5 Kerri of Olympics gymnastic fame5 Reduce, as expenses4 Slightest trace4 Certain pod legume (R)10 Train to O'Hare (M)10 Sweet winter drinks6 Fannie __ mortgages3 Aussie hoppers4 Discard8 Mideast rice serving5 Prepares, as pizza dough6 Wide footwear letters3 ABA member3 Largely gone Asian lake7 Sharply sloped5 Grandma4 Greet another Marine (G or R)11 Prairie storehouse4 Locket shapes5 More filled with fluffy feathers7 Color TV pioneer3 Frequently, poetically3 Pleasant change6 Streetcar director5 What domed stadiums prevent8 Ominous4 __ Faire (role-playing event)3 Belittle6 Appeal for assistance (M)10 Eminent LBJ biographer (B)10 Stage show-offs4 Box tops4 Cum grano __ (with a grain of you-know-what)5 All too fallible5 NFL West team3 Novelist Buchanan4 Michelangelo subject5 Moving movie6 DMV ID3 Neighbor of Homer3 Big-eyed baby bird5 63-Across' daughter3 PC "quit" key3 Breakfast beverage (K)11 What the last words of eight long Across answers all do9 Type of govt. bond5 Made mention of5 Reminiscent of4 Alpine capital4 CD issuer5 Dresser features5 Blissful place4 Admin. __4

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Drapery fabric7 Ushers to a seat7 Slightest idea7 Office seeker, for short3 "Deep knee" exercises5 Little boys4 Most populous NATO member3 Inhales and exhales8 On the increase6 Nasal stimuli5 Canoe implements4 Even if, in verse3 Wizard8 __ Martin (British auto)5 Timid3 Footwear that clicks7 Take after7 Contract extension7 It's north of Des Moines8 "Doing all right"7 Spanish water4 AC__ (car parts brand)5 Mid-March VIP5 Letter after sigma3 Scold loudly7 Likable person7 Maps within maps6 Traditional bagpipers5 Quill descendant7 Atoms with charges4 Southeast Florida citizen7 Choir guy5 Hurl hard5 Of kidneys5 Knotty nosh7 Iron: Fr.3 Vowel sequence5 Dutch pottery5 Glimpses5 Not beyond7 Triangular houses7 Makes straight6 Loud laugh3 More frosty5 Eastern European4 Detested thing8 Shortstop, for instance7 Persist at an auction5 Perfectly timed5 Cruise ship's primary level8 Fictional physician with furry friends8 Alpine abodes7 __ Islands (where Guam is)7 Pi preceder7 Smartphone ancestor3 High praise4 Current measures7 Bold poker participants7 Penny phrase7 Tossed dishes6 German winged being5 Inept person5 Alcott title characters5 Comics bulldog4 Recording device4 Inc. cousin3 Yang's partner3 Disposed (of)3 Sched. placeholder3