Newsday Crossword January 7, 2025 Answers

Across

Crisp ginger cookie4 Identical4 Commercial for a sedan, say5 Signals "yes" with one's head4 In a group with4 Fully informed5 Keep __ (persevere)4 a la __ (topped with ice cream)4 Cooks cakes in an oven5 Adversary3 Time off in March for college students11 Luau instrument7 Help out3 Chimp or gorilla3 Pining for a sweetheart8 "Me too"5 Remove, as an apple peel4 Edgar Allan __3 Year off for a professor15 Make a knot in3 Back part of a shoe4 __ days (days of yore)5 Inactive state8 Increases, as a bet3 Any precious stone3 Person giving a talk7 Saturday-to-Monday time off11 Metallic mineral3 "You win"5 Four-star review4 Pickle containers4 Office messages5 Trebek of Jeopardy!4 Very often4 Actor's negotiator5 Mailed out4 Fourth planet from the sun4

Down

Chaotic mess5 Unacceptable5 French farewell5 Seattle winter clock setting: Abbr.3 Take a small taste of6 Strong affection, in Italy5 Calf-length skirt4 Genesis garden4 Taxi driver6 Emmys and Oscars6 Leaf-gathering tool4 Neighborhood4 Writing table4 Brown photo tint5 Judge's hammer5 Young sheep4 Shoestrings5 Taken by mouth4 Apple's tablet4 Small sheltered bay4 Razor-sharp4 __ spumante wine4 Stated4 Eve's second son4 Crusty desserts4 Main idea5 Ran with ease5 Queen in Frozen4 Prods into action6 Most recent6 Scheduled right after this6 Snow White and the __ Dwarfs5 Aussie bearlike animal5 Mistake5 Takes a breather5 Capital of Peru4 Designer Cassini4 Alaskan port city4 Chapters of history4 Curly-leafed cabbage4 Fruity bread spread3