Newsday Crossword January 4, 2025 Answers

Across

Up now5 Best Direction, Best Latin, etc.4 Rob Roy, but not Tom Collins4 Riot of miscellany10 Score number4 "Senor Burns" performer on The Simpsons (1995)10 Ore crusher4 Michener book with a "Bulls" chapter6 Bag filler, or have in the bag3 "Surrounding" starter4 Ultimate3 An interim Australian bioregion8 What a lifeboat carries5 Tempete dans un verre d'__ (fuss about trivialities)3 Olympic VIP4 PurSteam product4 Extremely exciting event10 Assemble for a session3 Drippings on menus3 Essence of much road work3 Howl, yowl, growl...3 Doritos flavor10 "Inventive" name from Old Norse for "elf"4 Invented things4 Diet denouement3 Get smarter5 Dessert descriptor8 Firmware storage unit3 Sounds like4 Legal __3 What Steve Ballmer said was not "going to get any significant market share" (2007)6 Walker venue4 Rubs in10 First name of the best-selling American author of the 20th century (as of 1970)4 "Scream queen" since the '70s10 They're often stored on roofs4 Handle with care4 Howls, yowls, growls...5

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Musical starter4 "Plebeian protector" paper nickname4 Ease off4 Particular Portuguese7 Blood work6 Visibility, in product names3 Italy's Microlino EV, e.g.7 Drive-By Truckers' music10 Heads for drivers5 Trial group7 Makes a submission admission10 "Proven" asset10 Sly spouse from the '70s5 It's thigh-high4 Ciel d'__ (weather prevision)4 She "pioneered screen" performance, per TCM4 Where the site of Babe Ruth's dad's bar is today10 Sistine Chapel artist before Michelangelo10 Cambridge's region10 Many a hybrid3 __ apple3 Debater of Biden in 20124 Name dropped by a Music City Hall of Famer4 Part of immunology's MMRV7 VW liftbacks7 Either of a wedding gown duo7 Doesn't stay long6 Agatha Christie and Iris Murdoch5 Putting great effort5 Dove into verse4 Pecanlike4 Name on the cover of The Pluto Files (2009)4 Proves one's peccability4 Block's 22-Across3