Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Tuesday December 29, 2020.
‘Moby-Dick” captain – AHAB
”No __, ands, or buts!” – IFS
”Now I get it!” – AHA
Advertising sign gas – NEON
Apex – ACME
Appears to be – SEEMS
Audio system – STEREO
Balkan native – SERB
Beachgoer’s building project – SANDCASTLE
Beer variety – PILSNER
Bread purchase – LOAF
Broker’s customer: Abbr – ACCT
Chimney grime – SOOT
Clear frost from – DEICE
Clinton’s vice president – GORE
Colas and root beers – SODAS
Contented comments from 27 Down – PURRS
Cost – PRICE
Curve of a foot – ARCH
Dangerous driving situation – ROADRAGE
Devout – PIOUS
E-flat equivalent – DSHARP
Easily irritated – TESTY
Family diagrams – TREES
Farm soil – EARTH
Farm storage tower – SILO
Fill with joy – ELATE
Fishing-rod attachment – REEL
Fizzled out – DIED
From the neighborhood – LOCAL
Gaggle member – GOOSE
Game-show host – EMCEE
Garden entrance – GATE
Gawk at – OGLE
Get ready, for short – PREP
Gusto – ZEST
Imitated – APED
Impudent – PERT
In a calm way – SERENELY
Jury member – PEER
Long, long __ (way back when) – AGO
Losing streaks – SLUMPS
Merciless – CRUEL
Midmorning ritual – COFFEEBREAK
Nautical staff – CREW
Norway’s capital – OSLO
Not so much – LESS
Numbered musical work – OPUS
Oil cartel – OPEC
Old enough – OFAGE
Once __ blue moon – INA
Operates smoothly – HUMS
Perceived to be – SEENAS
Poems of praise – ODES
Poker-pot starter – ANTE
Popular pets – CATS
Pre-exercise ritual – WARMUP
Puts to work – USES
Scratch or dent – MAR
Set of clothing – OUTFIT
Shares top billing – COSTARS
Ship’s backbone – KEEL
Snakelike swimmer – EEL
Speck of dust – MOTE
Squirrel away – HOARD
Step heavily (on) – STOMP
Strictness – RIGOR
Suffix for meteor – ITE
Teacher’s favorite – PET
Third-place Olympics award – BRONZEMEDAL
Three feet – YARD
Toledo’s state – OHIO
Use scissors – CUT
Very small – TINY
Villain’s look – LEER
Walk on the stage – ENTER
What the penny used to be – COPPERCOIN
__ of the above – NONE
