New York Times – Dec 17 2017 Crossword Solution
New York Times – Dec 17 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘Don’t ___ me’ | TEMPT |
‘I had a dream, which was not all a dream’ poet | BYRON |
‘I shall return,’ e.g | VOW |
‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ spinoff | ENOS |
‘Totally awesome!’ | RAD |
‘Yo!’ | HEY |
1979 Roman Polanski film | TESS |
1998 De Niro thriller | RONIN |
32-ounce purchase at 7-Eleven | BIGGULP |
Actor Patel of ‘Lion’ | DEV |
Actress Hatcher | TERI |
Add years | AGE |
All skin and bones | GAUNT |
Announcement upon a grand arrival | HEREIAM |
Antagonist | FOE |
Attention hog’s cry | LOOKATME |
Automaker sold by G.M. in 2017 | OPEL |
Basics | ABCS |
Best of the best | TIPTOP |
Betty ___ | BOOP |
Big name in 1980s-’90s TV talk | ARSENIO |
Big stinks | REEKS |
Bit of food … or feud? | BEEF |
Brave | DEFY |
Broadbrim, e.g | HAT |
Busy hosp. areas | ERS |
Buttonhole, e.g | SLIT |
Came down | ALIT |
Certain Lincoln Center soprano? | NEWYORKMEZZO |
Certain soft drinks, informally | DEWS |
Chasm | GULF |
Cheesy dish | RAREBIT |
China’s Chiang ___-shek | KAI |
CNN commentator Navarro | ANA |
Comedian who was a regular on ‘The Steve Allen Show’ | LOUISNYE |
Comment from a cook who cools the cheese sauce before serving? | IRESTMYQUESO |
Comparatively strong, like some French wine? | STIFFASABORDEAUX |
Court conference | SIDEBAR |
Cricket rival of Harrow | ETON |
Cupid’s catchphrase? | LOVEISINTHEARROW |
Des Moines-to-Dubuque dir | ENE |
Determination in a prenatal exam | SEX |
Dietary std | RDA |
Director of 1991’s ‘Mississippi Masala’ | MIRANAIR |
Disloyalty | PERFIDY |
Doesn’t know for a fact, say | FEELS |
Done, slangily | FINITO |
Early Beatle | PETEBEST |
Egg-shaped Hasbro toys introduced in 1971 | WEEBLES |
Egyptian leader obsessed with his appearance? | VANITYPHARAOH |
El ___ | PASO |
Eleven: Fr | ONZE |
Entertainment with camels, maybe | ICESHOW |
Fearful | TREPID |
Finely decorated | GILT |
First sentence of a news story | LEDE |
Fleet | ARMADA |
Free | RELEASE |
Genesis brother | SETH |
George Eliot’s ‘___ Marner’ | SILAS |
Give a beating | DRUB |
Go cold turkey | QUIT |
Go forcefully (through) | PLOW |
Goaltender Dominik in the Hockey Hall of Fame | HASEK |
Grasp, informally | GROK |
Grime | FILTH |
Highway noise barriers | BERMS |
Holiday meal | SEDER |
Human, typically, diet-wise | OMNIVORE |
Inc. relative | LLC |
Clues | Answers |
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Inits. for getting around the Loop | CTA |
Intimidate | COW |
It decreases a QB’s rating: Abbr | INT |
It may pop on a plane | EAR |
It sank after W.W. II | YEN |
It’s to be expected | PAR |
King who said ‘Nothing will come of nothing’ | LEAR |
Knee-highs, e.g | SOCKS |
Landon who lost in a landslide | ALF |
Leveled | RAZED |
Light on one’s feet | SPRY |
Like Wrigley Field’s walls | IVIED |
Lincoln’s place | CENT |
Loft filler | HAY |
Long lunch? | HERO |
Lose | SHAKE |
Material once set afire and put in a catapult | TAR |
Mean, lowdown sorts | CURS |
Mining supply | TNT |
Much of Mongolia | STEPPE |
Neighbor of Sudan | CHAD |
Nighttime Cartoon Network programming block | ADULTSWIM |
Old movie dog | ASTA |
One of eight in ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ | MAID |
One who’s in it but doesn’t win it | ALSORAN |
Part | ROLE |
Part of a house | GABLE |
Parts of supermarkets | DELIS |
Party animal | REVELER |
Pastoral locale | LEA |
Paul who sang ‘Lonely Boy’ | ANKA |
Peach ___ | MELBA |
Powerful engine, for short | HEMI |
Protagonist in David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ | HAL |
Quaint ‘I believe’ | METHINKS |
Queen in the ‘Star Wars’ movies | AMIDALA |
Said | UTTERED |
Sam who ran the bar on ‘Cheers’ | MALONE |
Score marking | CLEF |
Secreted signal | PHEROMONE |
See 55-Down | BUT |
Seminal symbol of mass production | MODELT |
Sentence fragments: Abbr | WDS |
Shooting craps while waiting for one’s train? | ROLLINGINTHEDEPOT |
Something that’s free of charge | NEUTRON |
Sources of lean meat | EMUS |
Start of MGM’s motto | ARS |
State capital that’s the setting of ‘Ironweed’ | ALBANY |
Submissive | MEEK |
Territory | TURF |
The Cougars of the West Coast Conf | BYU |
Things that people like to have ripped? | ABS |
Topic at the Kinsey Institute | GSPOT |
Unconcerned with right and wrong | AMORAL |
Units for binge watchers | SEASONS |
Vigilant | ONGUARD |
Weapon seen on the Kenyan flag | SPEAR |
Went by | ELAPSED |
White undercoat | GESSO |
Wild | FERAL |
Win on ‘Hollywood Squares’ | OOO |
Wipe off the map | DESTROY |
With 57-Down, very nearly | ALL |
Woman’s name that means ‘truth’ | VERA |
Woodwind that’s O.K. to play? | KOSHERPICCOLO |
Wrinkle-free, say | IRONED |
Yes or no follower | SIREE |
___ buco | OSSO |
___ Valley | SIMI |
___-frutti | TUTTI |