Code Letter Puzzle Answers December 22, 2023
Across
| New Testament trio | MAGI |
| Personal preference | TASTE |
| It’s bought in bars | SOAP |
| Syrian Desert sharer | IRAQ |
| Menotti opera title role | AMAHL |
| Tim Cook’s company, per Nasdaq | APPL |
| Pond swimmer | NEWT |
| Information Age | DIGITALERA |
| Adopt | TAKEUP |
| Meteorologically housebound | SNOWEDIN |
| Leave off | STOP |
| Go at it, so to speak | RASSLE |
| Brainwork | MENTALEFFORT |
| Self-styled stinger | ALI |
| Starter like soli- | HELIO |
| Occurs to, with “on” | DAWNS |
| Towering | TALL |
| Hydroacoustic device | SONAR |
| Inside look | XRAY |
| Retirement plan? | SLEEP |
| Subdues | TAMES |
| Writer Rand | AYN |
| Infrequent overhead alignment | TOTALECLIPSE |
| Accolades | PRAISE |
| Dire destiny | DOOM |
| Servings with soup | SALTINES |
| Make beholden | OBLIGE |
| Wiseacre | SMARTALECK |
| Swear to | AVOW |
| HomePod voice | SIRI |
| Wedding photo subject | NIECE |
| Hidden theme of the puzzle | TALE |
| Fill-in | TEMP |
| Not so hot | TEPID |
| What hoops haven’t | ENDS |
Down
| Major money maker | MINT |
| Survey datum | AREA |
| Be a goggler | GAWK |
| Where 100 is just average | IQTEST |
| Amphibian infants | TADPOLES |
| “Confrère” | AMI |
| Gives some | SAGS |
| Flimsy | THIN |
| “Signo del zodiaco” | ELTORO |
| State capital | SALESTAX |
| Punditry in print | OPEDS |
| National Humor Month | APRIL |
| Shaver of a sort | PLANE |
| Bestowal | AWARD |
| Home of five national parks | UTAH |
| Jai alai missile | PELOTA |
| Welcome sights | MATS |
| Fleet with tailfin stars | ELAL |
| Bluish green | NILE |
| Conclusive | FINAL |
| Was frothy | FOAMED |
| Spa treatment | WRAP |
| Oral dissent | NAYS |
| Ago, in Aberdeen | SYNE |
| Happened with full force | LETITRIP |
| Boiled over, say | RECOOKED |
| Put forward | POSIT |
| Woeful one | SLOB |
| Lodger | TENANT |
| Cry heard by Alice | IMLATE |
| Covert call | PSSST |
| Plant-based plastic fiber | RAMIE |
| Distressing suspense | ALARM |
| Fashion designer Saab | ELIE |
| Escape slowly | SEEP |
| Slavic Johann | IVAN |
| Most malleable metal | GOLD |
| Ricotta sources | EWES |
| Third-century start | CCI |