Newsday Crossword December 28 2024 Answers (12/28/24)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for December 28 2024 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword December 28, 2024 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

There is a new puzzle to work through each day of the week. This crossword is considered to be balanced between being fun and engaging with some challenge but entirely solvable without tearing one’s hair out!

Newsday Crossword December 28, 2024 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 12/28/24, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Significantly lessen
5A Where Scotch Tape was invented c. 1930
11A Marvel villain aka Cleo Nefertiti
14A Virtual reality purveyor
15A Quick charge
16A News magazine cover figure in '49 and '72
17A They say it ain't so, formally
20A Hand axes?
21A Clears the way, in a way
22A Sport sharing an etymology with "spatula"
23A Basic sound unit
25A Makes legal
28A Primary course
29A Its university turned 800 in 2022
30A Change positions, incompletely
31A Netted
34A Soon enough
37A Galaxy part
38A Laity's locales
39A Erstwhile neighbor of Burundi
40A Throw out
41A Goth (not recently)
42A Close relative of Bianca
45A Coiner of "horsepower"
46A Spruce cousin
47A Jersey and Oxford
51A Iconic song on AFI's 100 list (recorded 1500+ times) named for a '55 film you've likely never heard of
54A Letter letters more often seen with one more S
55A Standing trial
56A Takes on
57A Held back
58A Grounds
59A Much more than pleased
1D Hoe foe
2D MGM tech first heard in '37
3D Big apes
4D Special feature
5D Points of view?
6D Pull a switch
7D Party regulars
8D Any of seven words on the UN Member States list
9D Athlete competing for the Beehive Boot
10D Royal news source since 1665
11D Rock
12D City about 50 miles (or a city about 100 miles) from Portland
13D Confederates
18D Seat of power
19D New York school with Gaels teams
23D Smart devices
24D Key factor in tort law
25D Unusually great
26D Grammy alternative
27D Rodin's Creation of work
28D Caribbean seismic spot
30D Mixed bag of stage
31D Red state
32D For flight
33D Pal of Pepys
35D Put under a lot of pressure
36D Coral reef scavenger
40D Hardly move
41D Beatles "Be thankful I don't take it all" tune
42D Red coat
43D Lounging spot
44D Made a bow
45D One with
47D Tools for opening holes
48D Stay behind
49D Dante's summit of Mount Purgatory
50D Forest* A *__ (online woods management tool)
52D It's like -like
53D Prime Video partner as of 2025

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