New York Times – Dec 25 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Jeopardy!’ host Trebek |
ALEX |
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ setting |
INDIA |
*Dispenser of psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown |
LUCYVANPELT |
*Game-quickening timer in basketball |
SHOTCLOCK |
*Long vegetable with a yellow pod |
WAXBEAN |
*Marinara sauce thickener |
TOMATOPASTE |
*Snowbirds’ destination |
SUNBELT |
1970s tennis champ Nastase |
ILIE |
Adhering to old-fashioned modesty |
PRIM |
Animal with a rack |
ELK |
Arabian Peninsula nation |
YEMEN |
Book jacket write-up |
BLURB |
Bottle stopper |
CORK |
Budgetary excess |
FAT |
Call at a deli or barbershop |
NEXT |
Cartoondom’s Olive ___ |
OYL |
Charlotte ___ (rich dessert) |
RUSSE |
Cheerleader’s cry |
RAH |
Churchill Downs event |
DERBY |
Clobber in the ring |
KAYO |
Columbus campus, briefly |
OSU |
Congeal, as blood |
CLOT |
Cooking oil brand |
CRISCO |
Ease up on |
LOOSEN |
Fairy tale boy who outsmarts a witch |
HANSEL |
Food unit counted by a dieter |
CALORIE |
Game of pursuit |
TAG |
Gate closer |
LATCH |
Golf ball propper-upper |
TEE |
Govt. of the Rebs |
CSA |
Green precious stone |
JADE |
Hairlike projections on cells |
CILIA |
Hippocratic ___ |
OATH |
Honolulu hello |
ALOHA |
Landmass bounded by a mountain chain and three oceans |
ASIA |
Like a midlevel general or a so-so movie |
TWOSTAR |
List of popular songs … or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
HITPARADE |
Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush |
TEXANS |
Mean witch’s pronouncement |
CURSE |
Clues |
Answers |
Mel honored in Cooperstown |
OTT |
Mischievous |
IMPISH |
Miss America accessory |
SASH |
Motorists’ org |
AAA |
Nighttime wear, familiarly |
PJS |
Notable achievement |
FEAT |
Overly theatrical type |
HAM |
Peak |
SUMMIT |
Playful river animal |
OTTER |
President saying ‘No!’ |
VETOER |
Purchase for a newborn |
LAYETTE |
Racket |
DIN |
Reb’s foe |
YANK |
Ships’ direction controllers |
RUDDERS |
Small food fish |
SMELT |
Social gaffe |
FAUXPAS |
Soft mineral |
TALC |
Some ‘big’ burgers |
MACS |
Something an arrested person tries to ‘make’ |
BAIL |
Sorvino of ‘Mighty Aphrodite’ |
MIRA |
Sound of disapproval |
TSK |
Spunk |
MOXIE |
Stars-and-stripes land, for short |
USA |
Steamy |
EROTIC |
Subway system |
METRO |
Swede who developed a temperature scale |
CELSIUS |
Swine |
HOGS |
Take part in 49-Across |
RUN |
Tie, as figure skates |
LACEUP |
Utter failure |
FIASCO |
Vice president between Gore and Biden |
CHENEY |
Wagner’s ‘Liebestod,’ e.g |
ARIA |
Wealth |
RICHES |
Weirdo |
NUT |
What might turn up dirt on someone? |
HOE |
What psychological trauma may leave |
SCAR |
Without repetition |
ONCE |
Words solemnly sworn |
IDO |
Years and years and years |
EONS |