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TINSEL TIME: 'Tis the season to 108-Across

Sunday, December 21, 2025 Constructed by S.N. 142 clues
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Across

  1. Minor anomaly 4 ℓ
  2. Out of bed 5 ℓ
  3. Botanical anchors 5 ℓ
  4. Out-of-focus photo 4 ℓ
  5. Sharply sloped 5 ℓ
  6. Largely gone Asian lake 7 ℓ
  7. ABA member 3 ℓ
  8. Wide footwear letters 3 ℓ
  9. Grandma 4 ℓ
  10. Greet another Marine (G or R) 11 ℓ
  11. Prairie storehouse 4 ℓ
  12. Locket shapes 5 ℓ
  13. More filled with fluffy feathers 7 ℓ
  14. Color TV pioneer 3 ℓ
  15. Frequently, poetically 3 ℓ
  16. Pleasant change 6 ℓ
  17. Streetcar director 5 ℓ
  18. What domed stadiums prevent 8 ℓ
  19. Belittle 6 ℓ
  20. Ominous 4 ℓ
  21. __ Faire (role-playing event) 3 ℓ
  22. Appeal for assistance (M) 10 ℓ
  23. Eminent LBJ biographer (B) 10 ℓ
  24. Box tops 4 ℓ
  25. Stage show-offs 4 ℓ
  26. All too fallible 5 ℓ
  27. Cum grano __ (with a grain of you-know-what) 5 ℓ
  28. NFL West team 3 ℓ
  29. Novelist Buchanan 4 ℓ
  30. Michelangelo subject 5 ℓ
  31. Moving movie 6 ℓ
  32. PC "quit" key 3 ℓ
  33. 63-Across' daughter 3 ℓ
  34. Big-eyed baby bird 5 ℓ
  35. Neighbor of Homer 3 ℓ
  36. DMV ID 3 ℓ
  37. What the last words of eight long Across answers all do 9 ℓ
  38. Breakfast beverage (K) 11 ℓ
  39. Nevada resort 4 ℓ
  40. Rueful emotion 5 ℓ
  41. It's west of Montana 5 ℓ
  42. Ill-at-__ (edgy) 4 ℓ
  43. Type of govt. bond 5 ℓ
  44. Made mention of 5 ℓ
  45. Reminiscent of 4 ℓ
  46. Alpine capital 4 ℓ
  47. Admin. __ 4 ℓ
  48. CD issuer 5 ℓ
  49. Dresser features 5 ℓ
  50. Blissful place 4 ℓ
  51. College club jewelry (E) 11 ℓ
  52. Former Bay Area American Leaguers (H) 9 ℓ
  53. 450, for Nero 3 ℓ
  54. HMO members 3 ℓ
  55. Ark groups 5 ℓ
  56. Budgetary bigwig, for short 3 ℓ
  57. Canonized femme: Abbr. 3 ℓ
  58. + and - 5 ℓ
  59. Hem and __ 3 ℓ
  60. Prom attendee 4 ℓ
  61. Stage whispers 6 ℓ
  62. Slightest trace 4 ℓ
  63. Eats elegantly 5 ℓ
  64. Kerri of Olympics gymnastic fame 5 ℓ
  65. Reduce, as expenses 4 ℓ
  66. Certain pod legume (R) 10 ℓ
  67. Train to O'Hare (M) 10 ℓ
  68. Aussie hoppers 4 ℓ
  69. Fannie __ mortgages 3 ℓ
  70. Sweet winter drinks 6 ℓ
  71. Discard 8 ℓ
  72. Mideast rice serving 5 ℓ
  73. Prepares, as pizza dough 6 ℓ
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Down

  1. Drapery fabric 7 ℓ
  2. Contract extension 7 ℓ
  3. Take after 7 ℓ
  4. Footwear that clicks 7 ℓ
  5. Timid 3 ℓ
  6. __ Martin (British auto) 5 ℓ
  7. Wizard 8 ℓ
  8. Even if, in verse 3 ℓ
  9. Canoe implements 4 ℓ
  10. Nasal stimuli 5 ℓ
  11. On the increase 6 ℓ
  12. Inhales and exhales 8 ℓ
  13. Most populous NATO member 3 ℓ
  14. Little boys 4 ℓ
  15. "Deep knee" exercises 5 ℓ
  16. Office seeker, for short 3 ℓ
  17. Slightest idea 7 ℓ
  18. Ushers to a seat 7 ℓ
  19. Triangular houses 7 ℓ
  20. Not beyond 7 ℓ
  21. Loud laugh 3 ℓ
  22. Makes straight 6 ℓ
  23. More frosty 5 ℓ
  24. Eastern European 4 ℓ
  25. Detested thing 8 ℓ
  26. Shortstop, for instance 7 ℓ
  27. Persist at an auction 5 ℓ
  28. Perfectly timed 5 ℓ
  29. Fictional physician with furry friends 8 ℓ
  30. Cruise ship's primary level 8 ℓ
  31. Current measures 7 ℓ
  32. Alpine abodes 7 ℓ
  33. __ Islands (where Guam is) 7 ℓ
  34. Pi preceder 7 ℓ
  35. Smartphone ancestor 3 ℓ
  36. High praise 4 ℓ
  37. Bold poker participants 7 ℓ
  38. Penny phrase 7 ℓ
  39. Tossed dishes 6 ℓ
  40. German winged being 5 ℓ
  41. Inept person 5 ℓ
  42. Alcott title characters 5 ℓ
  43. Recording device 4 ℓ
  44. Comics bulldog 4 ℓ
  45. Sched. placeholder 3 ℓ
  46. Disposed (of) 3 ℓ
  47. Yang's partner 3 ℓ
  48. Inc. cousin 3 ℓ
  49. It's north of Des Moines 8 ℓ
  50. "Doing all right" 7 ℓ
  51. Spanish water 4 ℓ
  52. Letter after sigma 3 ℓ
  53. Mid-March VIP 5 ℓ
  54. AC__ (car parts brand) 5 ℓ
  55. Scold loudly 7 ℓ
  56. Likable person 7 ℓ
  57. Maps within maps 6 ℓ
  58. Traditional bagpipers 5 ℓ
  59. Quill descendant 7 ℓ
  60. Atoms with charges 4 ℓ
  61. Southeast Florida citizen 7 ℓ
  62. Dutch pottery 5 ℓ
  63. Choir guy 5 ℓ
  64. Hurl hard 5 ℓ
  65. Of kidneys 5 ℓ
  66. Knotty nosh 7 ℓ
  67. Iron: Fr. 3 ℓ
  68. Glimpses 5 ℓ
  69. Vowel sequence 5 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, December 21, 2025 is titled “TINSEL TIME: 'Tis the season to 108-Across” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 142 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

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