Newsday Crossword July 12, 2026 Answers

Across

A lot, in Lima5 Recline face-up8 Walk heavily5 Trivet kin6 Witness8 Title for un monarque5 Prayer candle6 Seems sensible14 Expert3 Airport convenience3 Eleven, in Lourdes4 Choral clinker8 French couturier13 Biathlon need3 Subtle distinctions7 2028 L.A. Games group3 Major mess5 Buttonhole, e.g.4 Spanish hero El __3 Next-to-last syllable6 Chance to play4 Squidlike8 Bespoke, as a suit12 Shows remorse6 Treadless4 Sherbet flavor4 Needless fuss3 Marching musician's outfit11 Ad's "easy to clean"6 Rembrandt contemporary5 Gift-wrapper's need4 Stretched tight4 Snowman accessory5 Central positions6 Result of good shuffling11 Regret3 Pledge in court4 Kid-vid explorer4 High-strung6 Aruba or Tahiti12 What businessmen must often do8 Squad4 Loan guarantor6 Unmannerly guy3 Subdued green4 Improvise orally5 Jargon suffix3 Baby food dessert7 Got hitched3 Require13 Victorian prime minister8 Shredded, with "up"4 Neth. neighbor3 Former OPEC state3 Pictures' proverbial worth14 Nissan sedan6 Tour of duty5 Panic8 Pete of folk music6 Composer Carmichael5 Stop sign shade8 What the eight longest answers share5

Down

Scrounger5 Come out with5 Cost-of-living no.3 Lake __ City, AZ6 Single-named folk singer6 Part of UCLA3 Chanted7 Spiral-horned antelopes6 Infamous investment fraudster5 Bull-riding venue5 Gives approval for3 Mosquito stoppers4 Suffix for smack4 Store staff6 Embrace, as inconvenience8 Approximately4 Not worth discussing4 Knotty wood4 Climate control, for short4 Toys __ (store chain)3 Cut up finely5 Side by side8 Battery fluid4 Orange exterior4 Audibly7 Lay __ (assert ownership of)7 Eerie ambience4 Stone Age toon4 Annul4 Wild guesses5 Unleash upon5 Hole __ (golfer's dream)5 Tropical tree4 Goal3 "Pencils down!"4 Family gathering7 Yahoo! rival3 Also-ran of fable4 Learning experiences7 Knocks on the noggin4 "No kidding!"7 June honorees7 Granny4 Bawl out8 Pucker-inducing4 Expand on5 Philbin of TV5 Sets loose5 June honorees4 Golfer McIlroy4 Homer's bartender3 Tequila cocktail, for short4 Pre-owned4 Israeli carrier4 105-Down counterpart3 "Do you doubt me?"8 Appear to be4 Spanish appetizer4 Picking from a lineup5 Was now payable7 Aesthete's appreciation6 Big brat6 Black Sea port6 Lurch6 __ Moines, IA3 Doing battle5 Eccentric5 Money spent5 Harder to find5 Number on class rings4 Telegraphy symbol4 "So what's __ you?"4 Branch of Islam4 Guffaw, informally4 Cross inscription4 Low grade3 Norm: Abbr.3 Homer's neighbor3