Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Friday December 18, 2020.
”Sesame Street” regular – ELMO
41 Across, in Arles – MER
44 Across student – ELI
Actress Tierney – MAURA
Apple for the teacher, maybe – IMAC
Approx. figure – EST
Become fuzzy – BLUR
Befits – SUITS
Beyond breezy – GUSTY
Boost – HIKE
Brilliance – ECLAT
Cereal morsel – RAISIN
Choir part – ALTO
Coca-Cola Zero alternative – DIETPEPSI
Corner space in Monopoly – JAIL
Cotillion honoree – DEB
Crave – DESIRE
Dairy case item – BRICKCHEESE
Debt reminder – IOU
Defeatist’s cry – ICANT
Denny’s rival – IHOP
Dissect, in a way – PARSE
Diving apparatus – AQUALUNG
Domed home – IGLOO
Easter Island’s owner – CHILE
Endangered beast – RHINO
Energetic – GOGO
English Derby site – EPSOM
Fall guy – CHUMP
Farm parcel – ACRE
Fix firmly – EMBED
Flightless bird – EMU
French dramatist Racine – JEAN
Fruits of a flower – ROSEHIPS
Gush – SPEW
Half of bi- – UNI
Hardly hip – NERDY
Head slappers’ cries – DUHS
Hit the gas – SPEDUP
Joan Rivers’ daughter – MELISSA
Kitchen helper – RINSER
Landscapers’ machines – WOODCHIPPERS
Letters between names – AKA
Little rascals – IMPS
Loved ones – DEARS
Low in a lea – MOO
Luxury train feature – LOUNGECAR
Masthead word – EDITOR
Mermaid’s milieu – SEA
Not a dup – ORIG
Oaxaca water – AGUA
On the highest shelf – UPTOP
Out of sorts – ILL
Overfills – SATES
Patterned blanket – QUILT
Photo – PIC
Pirate costume accessory – EYEPATCH
Powerful blow – SWAT
Put away – ATE
Raise a stink – GRIPE
Royal role for Liz – CLEO
Scoot over, perhaps – MAKEROOM
Seemingly forever – NOEND
Singer Easton – SHEENA
Singled out – CHOSEN
Star pitcher – ACE
Summer Olympics event – EPEE
Taft’s alma mater – YALE
Threat ender – ELSE
Tolkien creature – ORC
Totter – REEL
Twangy musical instrument – STEELGUITAR
Unwanted email – SPAM
Widen – DILATE
Word for something tangible – CONCRETENOUN
__ Jima – IWO
