New York Times – Dec 18 2022
New York Times – Dec 18 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘Boxcars’ | SIXES |
‘Go right ahead!’ | PLEASEDO |
‘Good Lord!’ | SHEESH |
‘I’m in heaven!’ | AHBLISS |
‘I’m in heaven!’ | THISISTHELIFE |
‘No one’s here but me’ | IMALONE |
‘Oh, good ___!’ | GRIEF |
‘Somewhat’ | SORTA |
‘That’s fine,’ in French | CESTBIEN |
‘This really needs to stop!’ | IMSODONE |
‘White Teeth’ novelist Smith | ZADIE |
‘___ my last email …’ | PER |
2017 chart-topping hit whose YouTube video was the first to reach 3 billion views | DESPACITO |
2019 animated Christmas film nominated for an Academy Award | KLAUS |
All-woman rock band with the 1982 hit ‘Vacation’ | GOGOS |
Amusement park ride, informally | COASTER |
Annual honors celebrating African American achievement | BETAWARDS |
Apple product | CIDER |
Author Susan played by Meryl Streep in 2002’s ‘Adaptation’ | ORLEAN |
Bad things to find in a tea set | CHIPS |
Basketball legend nicknamed the ‘Point God’ | CHRISPAUL |
Bit of deception | FEINT |
Boardroom V.I.P | CEO |
Bunk | BALONEY |
Caused to kvell | MADEPROUD |
Charged | RANAT |
Close up on the screen? | GLENN |
Covered, in a way | PAIDFOR |
Defensive badminton shot | LOB |
Doesn’t ignore | HEEDS |
Early springtime woe | TAXES |
Earthenware container for transporting heat | FIREPOT |
Ebb tide feature | LOWWATER |
Elizabeth who starred in Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ | OLSEN |
Engineering sch. in Troy, N.Y | RPI |
Entered a school zone, say | SLOWED |
Exercise typically done lying down | LEGRAISE |
Fried appetizer that resembles a blossom | BLOOMINGONION |
Fundamentals | ABCS |
Gets there in no time? | TELEPORTS |
Given name of Caligula and Augustus | GAIUS |
Go through | PENETRATE |
Goofed (around) | CLOWNED |
Got a newer smartphone, maybe | TRADEDUP |
Group once led by Darth Sidious | SITH |
Harshly criticize | LASHAT |
Having a sailor’s mouth, so to speak | CRASS |
Hebrides tongue | ERSE |
Into gadgets, say | TECHY |
IT department inventory | PCS |
Joint accounts? | POLICEREPORTS |
Joke that goes over the line? | CRANKCALL |
Landing sites for bees | STAMENS |
Largest U.S. state capital by population, on a postmark | PHOENIXAZ |
Likely Cotton Bowl attendee | TEXAN |
Lil Wayne’s ‘___ Carter V’ | THA |
Loretta who played ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan on ‘M*A*S*H’ | SWIT |
Making its way there | INTRANSIT |
Many a consulting hire, for short | MBA |
Many a TikTok user | TEEN |
Many equal rights champions | FEMINISTS |
Clues | Answers |
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Mark in art, in a way | ETCH |
Mecca resident | SAUDI |
Mix of sand, silt and clay | LOAM |
Moves to attack | COMESAT |
Muslim leader | IMAM |
Neighbor of India: Abbr | PAK |
Neighbor of the Q key | TAB |
New York college known for its polls | MARIST |
Number in a tournament | SEED |
Occupy, as a booth | SITAT |
One might crawl out of the woodwork | CARPENTERANT |
One might offer concessions | FOODSTAND |
Opportunity to make things right | SECONDCHANCE |
Optimists keep them high | HOPES |
Ornamental bracelets | BANGLES |
Paintings such as ‘View of Toledo’ | ELGRECOS |
Parent of kids | GOAT |
Peevish | TESTY |
Peevish displays | SNITS |
Persian polymath Khayyám | OMAR |
Piece of fudge? | FIB |
Pink Floyd co-founder Barrett | SYD |
Place in math class | TENS |
Playground game cry | NOTIT |
Portmanteau for an extended autumn celebration | HALLOWEEKEND |
Primary pipes | MAINS |
Pros and cons, e.g | SIDES |
Québécois dish of French fries, cheese curds and gravy | POUTINE |
Quibbles | CARPS |
Really hot, slangily | ENFUEGO |
Removed from an exchange | DELISTED |
Reveal the juiciest details | TELLALL |
Rhythmic pattern | CADENCE |
River: Ger | STROM |
Scotland’s ___ Lomond | LOCH |
Scrubbed, as a rocket launch | NOGO |
Skedaddles | SPLITS |
Some limited-time offers | ONESHOTDEALS |
Sort of investment purchase with a spike in popularity through social media | MEMESTOCK |
Soul singer Thomas | CARLA |
Southern breakfast bowlful | GRITS |
Squatting motions | KNEEBENDS |
Squooshes, maybe | STEPSON |
Style of column at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate | DORIC |
Sudden pang | THROE |
Term for a male opera character played by a woman | PANTSROLE |
Thai cuisine quality | SPICINESS |
Their business is picking up | TAXIS |
They may be locked and loaded | SAFES |
Turf ___ (football injury) | TOE |
Very little | NEXTTONOTHING |
Volleyball star-turned-model Gabrielle | REECE |
Wee bit | SMIDGEN |
Welcome sights on road trips | RESTSTOPS |
What used to be yours? | THINE |
When doubled, a classic Mardi Gras tune | IKO |
Witticism | WISECRACK |
Word of gratitude overseas | MERCI |
Worked on in tandem | TAGTEAMED |
___ Carter, most-recorded jazz bassist in history | RON |
___ child | INNER |