Well this one gave me fits!!! I got all the "NEWS" of course but the rest??? I guessed at the answer (given the season) but still had no idea. What finally tipped it was the card game
HEM37AVariety of a popular card game
[---] . I looked on Google several times to no avail and then thought, "hmmm maybe OLD
HEM37AVariety of a popular card game
[---] , a variation of OLD MAID" but when I said OLD
HEM37AVariety of a popular card game
[---] in my mind I heard H OLD EM and then another odd one came to mind, the clue about what I might find in the fridge. I thought it related to
SPRINKLE9DYou probably don't get just a single instance on an ice cream cone
[--------] early on, but now I knew it had to be C OLD ONE. The hardest was an answer I came to accept based on "probably right and I've never heard of it because I am an old guy"
GENIE38AYou might hear it on the radio
[-----] on the radio. Turns out there is a Radio Genie that is a free Internet radio, and I had accepted that, but G OLD EN OLD IE, that is so much better. Fine job Mike!