Newsday.com - Dec 27 2018

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Abba of Israel EBAN
Activate, as an alarm ARM
Arboreal primates LEMURS
Becomes friendlier WARMS
Bit of bad fortune UNLUCKYBREAK
Bon __ (witty remark) MOT
Brasserie beverage EAU
Brasserie handout CARTE
Campus figures PROFS
Castle tower TURRET
Certain prf. of purchase TKT
CFO, possibly CPA
Cinderella's horses, after midnight MICE
Crop up ARISE
Dallas sch SMU
Down source GOOSE
Driving test maneuver LEFTTURN
Exploitation USE
Fair-hiring letters EOE
Far from strict LAX
Filing deadline mo APR
Fox in ''Back to the Future'' MCFLY
Gives one's impressions REACTS
Go off script ADLIB
Golf scorecard abbr YDS
Hearty laugh YUK
Increases UPS
Investment plan, initially IRA
Is worth doing PAYS
Jazz band participants SAXES
Lacking tact CLASSLESS
Letters near 0 OPER
Lobbying org PAC
Mai __ TAI
Miscellaneous group OTHERS
Monthly S&L document STMT
Moved a rowboat OARED
Moves without effort COASTS
Mr. Clean alternative LYSOL
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Much, informally LOTSA
No particular ANY
Operatic instruction TEMPO
Orangs, for instance APES
Piece of land TRACT
Pointed ends CUSPS
Powerful whirlpool MAELSTROM
Predicaments SPOTS
Price displayer TAG
Refrain snippet LALA
River mouth area ESTUARY
Schedule datum: Abbr ETD
School town on the Thames ETON
Sgts., e.g NCOS
Showed disbelief GAPED
Single thickness PLY
Snack for a finch SEED
Spaghetti staple MARINARA
Spot for a tot LAP
Starting with nothing FROMSCRATCH
Stead LIEU
Symbol of 42 Down LEO
Thailand neighbor LAOS
Thin, yet tough WIRY
This season YULE
Tom Hanks pilot role CAPTAINSULLY
Towel off DRY
Tricky curves ESSES
Unkempt hair MOPS
Venerable film studio, for short METRO
Virtuoso ACE
Wafer holding circuitry SILICONCHIP
Walk anxiously PACE
Water near Carson City TAHOE
What some street sections are for LOADING
Where the Renaissance was born ITALY
Whipped dessert MOUSSE
WWII menace UBOAT
__ de sac CUL