Here are the answers to Newsday.com Crossword puzzles Wednesday December 30, 2020.
‘A __ formality!” – MERE
”Beg pardon . . .” – AHEM
”Gladiator” star – CROWE
”When pigs fly!” – NEVER
After-school meeting org – PTA
All eyes and ears – ALERT
Ante- relative – PRE
Baloney peddler – LIAR
Barbershop call – NEXT
Burning up – ONFIRE
Capital of Bangladesh – DHAKA
Cause of quaking – FEAR
Compare – LIKEN
Cyber-mag – EZINE
Danish flavor – PRUNE
Decorative water pitcher – EWER
Dentist’s request – OPEN
Distort – SKEW
Drum kit part – SNARE
Dukes it out, in practice – SPARS
Far from cramped – ROOMY
Food Network hosts – CHEFS
Give the thumbs down to – NIX
Good with tools, say – HANDY
Government honcho – CZAR
Greek drink – OUZO
Gumbo veggie – OKRA
Hit the hammock – REST
Huge expanse – SEA
Impostors – SHAMS
In need of a rubdown – SORE
In position – SET
Meadow mother – EWE
Mine find – ORE
Mosque book – KORAN
Moves furtively – SKULKS
Nada – ZERO
Name of 23 popes – JOHN
Nervous giggle – TEHEE
Nonpayer’s risk, for short – REPO
Not often – ONRAREOCCASION
Not often – EVERYNOWANDTHEN
Not often – FROMTIMETOTIME
One of the Brontë sisters – ANNE
Overly thin – BONY
Parties with poi – LUAUS
Perform perfectly – NAIL
Pungent bulb – ONION
Puppy pickup spot – NAPE
Rationed, with ”out” – DOLED
Saver of the day – HERO
Secured, as a victory – ICED
Seer’s reading – PALM
Show off one’s muscles – FLEX
Sign of bad radio reception – STATIC
Somewhat, in music – POCO
Spain’s longest river – EBRO
Spiral shape – HELIX
Sporting blade – EPEE
State categorically – AVOW
Street eatery – CAFE
Striped equine – ZEBRA
Stubble remover – RAZOR
Sty cry – OINK
Tandem bike’s capacity – TWO
Tell’s missile – ARROW
The lowdown – INFO
Third-party account – ESCROW
Time of anticipation – EVE
Tom of Twain novels – SAWYER
Towel material – TERRY
Triangular sail – JIB
Uncle Sam’s land, humorously – USOFA
Was in first place – LED
Wiped clean – ERASED
Yalies – ELIS
[Not my mistake] – SIC
__ room (place to play) – REC
