New York Times – Dec 19 2022
New York Times – Dec 19 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘Backlash Blues’ singer ___ Simone | NINA |
‘Get over it’ | MOVEON |
‘Washboard’ muscles, informally | ABS |
‘What’s gotten ___ you?’ | INTO |
‘Will there be anything ___?’ | ELSE |
‘Yes, captain’ | AYE |
‘___ all a dream!’ | ITWAS |
1970 Jackson 5 hit with the line ‘Easy as 1, 2, 3’ | ABC |
27th U.S. president and 10th chief justice | TAFT |
Archer’s arrow launcher | BOWSTRING |
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel | OTT |
Beanies and bonnets | HATS |
Big maker of calculators and digital watches | CASIO |
Bird on many a birth announcement | STORK |
Boat wood | TEAK |
Built-in lag time to allow bleeping during a live broadcast | TAPEDELAY |
Cairo’s river | NILE |
Chimp’s cousin | ORANG |
Coconut trees | PALMS |
Consumes | EATS |
Cozy | SNUG |
Crew | POSSE |
Curving flight paths | ARCS |
Delhi’s land | INDIA |
Dodos | ASSES |
Drifting platform for polar wildlife | ICEFLOE |
Empire State Building style, for short | DECO |
English county at one end of the Thames | ESSEX |
Giant computer of the 1940s | ENIAC |
Give the cold shoulder | SNUB |
Good vantage point at an opera house or stadium | BOXSEAT |
Goof-off | SLACKER |
Hawaiian garland | LEI |
Hawaiian party | LUAU |
Hungry ___ bear | ASA |
Instrument often used as the ‘J’ in a ‘Jazz Club’ sign | SAX |
Intuit | SENSE |
Landscape, e.g | SCENE |
Like a canceled check | VOID |
Clues | Answers |
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Like a puppy who’s learned where to ‘go’ | PAPERTRAINED |
Massage deeply | ROLF |
Minnesota’s St. ___ College | OLAF |
More tightly packed | DENSER |
Mrs. ___ (year-round North Pole resident) | CLAUS |
Nation in Polynesia | SAMOA |
Not sharp, as a pencil or knife | BLUNT |
Nuisance | PEST |
Org | ASSN |
Part of a Superman costume | CAPE |
Part of a swimmer’s sidestroke | SCISSORSKICK |
Pen name, e.g | ALIAS |
Predictive sign | OMEN |
Prime bird-watching spots for indoor cats | SILLS |
Roman love god | AMOR |
Roseanne of ‘Roseanne’ | BARR |
Run ___ of (conflict with) | AFOUL |
Scorch | CHAR |
Seek damages | SUE |
Seven on a grandfather clock | VII |
Shiny item of fishing tackle | LURE |
Sink attachment | PIPE |
Small piano | SPINET |
Smudge | SPOT |
Soar | SKYROCKET |
Some Japanese cuisine | SUSHI |
Something in an office that’s not PC? | IMAC |
Something that can be wrapped using the starts of 17-, 24-, 40-, 51- and 64-Across | GIFT |
Stratford’s river | AVON |
Subway patrons | RIDERS |
Things usually sold by the dozen | EGGS |
Timbuktu’s country | MALI |
Unspeakably awful | EXECRABLE |
Victorian ___ (1837-1901) | ERA |
Wetlands critter with snapping jaws | CROC |
With it | HIP |
Within | AMID |
Yellow ingredient left out of some omelets | YOLK |
___-Royce | ROLLS |