Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Thursday December 3, 2020.
‘Barber of Seville” composer – ROSSINI
”Just __ thought!” – ASI
1.75” sandwich – OREO
10cc, perhaps – DOSE
Air, for instance – GAS
Alphabetic trio – IJK
Analogous – AKIN
Articles of faith – CREED
Bar twists – RINDS
Baroque stringed instrument – VIOL
Be a banterer – JOSH
Benjamin – CNOTE
Big bad boss – OGRE
Big lug – OAF
Boar or bull – MALE
Boxes for practice – SPARS
Break apart – BUST
Break apart – SMASH
Care for – TEND
Cheerios’ corny cousin – KIX
Chips holder – BAG
Confess – TELL
Contained – HAD
Daydreamy state – HEADINTHECLOUDS
Deere logo depiction – STAG
Drained of color – ASHEN
Drives home on a diamond – BATSIN
Elbows and shells – PASTA
Evidence of embezzlement – HANDINTHETILL
Faithful – TRUE
First of a series – OPENER
Gospel writer – JOHN
Kind of clam – STEAMER
Longest river in France – LOIRE
Lord’s Prayer start – OUR
Minimal preventative – FINGERINTHEDIKE
Most skylike – BLUEST
Musical with ”Memory” – CATS
Negative link – NOR
Nocturnal newborn nestling – OWLET
Novelist Deighton – LEN
Objects of worship – IDOLS
Obsessive smarties – NERDS
Opportunity, initially – FOOTINTHEDOOR
Otherworldly – ALIEN
Parental palindrome – DAD
Part of IPA – ALE
Part of many partnership names – AND
Paths of planets – ARCS
Predatory marine mammal – ORCA
Prosecutor’s pursuit – CASE
Quite an achievement – FEAT
Raring to go – ITCHY
S&L offering – IRA
Sandwich much larger than a 2 Down – BLT
Scottish valley – GLEN
Seemed pleased – SMILED
Sharer of emceeing – COHOST
Ship of fuels – OILER
Small impression – DENT
Snowwoman accessory – SCARF
Sorority letter – TAU
Southeast Asian capital – HANOI
Spectrum license auctioneer – FCC
Summit – VERTEX
Sung solo – ARIA
Swahili boss – BWANA
Take-home – NET
Ten Benjamins – GEE
Tiff – SPAT
Time-honored sayings – ADAGES
Toad bump – WART
Upright – ONEND
What some combatants cross – SWORDS
What you’d rather not hear – NOISE
Young roo – JOEY
