Newsday.com - Dec 25 2018

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''. . . it's off to work __'' WEGO
''Have a __ day!'' NICE
''In what way?'' HOWSO
''It's so easy, __ can do it!'' EVENI
''This can't be!'' OHNO
Above OVER
And others, for short ETAL
Angelic topper HALO
Approximately ORSO
Author unknown: Abbr ANON
Available fresh now, as fruit INSEASON
Backyard tool building SHED
Barbershop sound SNIP
Be adjacent to ABUT
Be optimistic HOPE
Becomes harder to climb STEEPENS
Before the boob-tube era PRETV
Bring to a halt END
Bring together UNITE
Bubble gum sound POP
Butterfly-catching implements NETS
Christmas songs NOELS
Clark Kent's newspaper THEDAILYPLANET
Cleopatra's river NILE
Coin in France and Italy EURO
Drinks delicately SIPS
Drought-ending weather RAIN
Eagle's talon CLAW
Earth's natural satellite MOON
Experiment TEST
Female deer DOE
Flavor enhancer initials MSG
Fortunate random chance PURELUCK
Ginger cookie SNAP
Good at home repairs HANDY
Graceful swimming bird SWAN
Great joy GLEE
Greatly MUCH
Grocery shopper's reference LIST
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Group of cattle HERD
Hard work TOIL
Hits, as a housefly SWATS
Ireland nickname ERIN
Just slightly ABIT
Keyboard goofs TYPOS
Kingly or queenly REGAL
Large body of water OCEAN
Made a mistake DROPPEDTHEBALL
MD's hospital coworkers RNS
Nine-digit IDs SSNS
No later than UNTIL
Pause in the action LULL
Pepsi and Coke COLAS
Pie nut PECAN
Prepared to pray KNELT
Pull from behind TOW
Read electronically SCAN
Ready-made lawn SOD
Regarding, in a memo INRE
Sandwich cookie OREO
Sandwich shops DELIS
Shows to be true PROVES
Skillet, for example PAN
Spain's capital MADRID
Spooky EERIE
Squirrel's snack ACORN
Stage show-offs HAMS
Story line PLOT
Stuff on a portrait artist's palette OILPAINT
Sulking one MOPER
Thick, as fog DENSE
Tot's ''little piggy'' TOE
Western defense grp NATO
Whichever ANY
Wicked BAD
Word-of-mouth ORAL
World of government POLITICALSPHERE
Writing implement PEN