Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Friday December 4, 2020.
”Bye” – CIAO
”Portrait of a Lady” author – JAMES
’70s sci-fi guy – HAN
Anthem excerpt – STANZA
Assents – SAYSYES
Averse to activity – LAZY
Bear in the air – URSA
Bedazzles – WOWS
Brief confirmation – TIS
Convinces to decide – SWAYS
Crème brûlée cousin – FLAN
Drains – SAPS
Ersatz haircut shaper – BOWL
Extrasensory awareness – RADAR
Family name in Nottingham – MUM
Fathomless depth – ABYSS
Fearful feeling – AWE
Former USO Honorary Chairman – OBAMA
Frequent pro tennis airer – ESPN
Had the role of – WAS
Harangue someone – NAG
Heckle – RAZZ
Highly significant – EPOCHAL
Hold ’em ritual – ANTE
Irishwoman who’s sung in 10 languages – ENYA
Large portion of yarn – HANK
Legal stoppage – STAY
Long-term success for CBS – CSI
Main Street merchant – BARBER
Mao successor – DENG
Multi-Oscar lyricist Cahn – SAMMY
Muse of history – CLIO
Nairobi natives – KENYANS
Natural healer – ALOE
Note beside G – AFLAT
Ophthalmological acronym – LASIK
Paranormal light – AURA
Parlor’s production – TAT
Part of West Virginia’s border – POTOMAC
PD transmission – APB
Pelican State sch – LSU
Play that introduced ”robot” – RUR
Pond’s competitor – OLAY
Principal part – LEAD
Put a name to – IDED
Rapper’s pal – DAWG
Record-setting activity – DJING
Reddish brown – SIENNA
Searched, with ”around” – POKED
See 59 Down – SITS
See-through glass – LENS
Shark sound in ”Jaws” – TUBA
Signore’s sweetheart – CARA
Some made-in-Mexico SUVs – GMCS
Southern __ (Selleck’s school) – CAL
Stem of the sea – BOW
Subdivision section – ACRE
Surface-to-air conclusion – CLANSPLANSPLANE
Surface-to-air, part 1 – TRAINDRAINDRAWN
Surface-to-air, part 2 – DROWNGROWNGROWS
Surface-to-air, part 3 – GROSS
Surface-to-air, part 4 – GRASSCRASSCLASS
Sword-shaped bloom – IRIS
Take quickly and eagerly – SCOOPUP
Time to remember – ERA
Tuition recipient – BURSAR
Underground diggers – ANTS
Underground diggers – WORMS
United – WED
Updike’s short-story alter ego – BECH
Utah’s __ Range – UINTA
Very much – LOTS
Way weird – OUTRE
What Plato spelled his name with – OMEGA
What the tired often take – ANAP
With 45 Down, watches Spot, say – PET
