10 Dec 21, Friday, NY Times Crossword Answers

10 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Solutions

Across

  • 1 Ensemble purchase that includes sheets and pillowcases : BED IN A BAG
  • 10 Cheek-related : MALAR
  • 15 Heading for : EN ROUTE TO
  • 16 Set apart : ALONE
  • 17 Skew conservative : LEAN RIGHT
  • 18 “___ boogie!” : GOTTA
  • 19 Meat : GIST
  • 20 Period at the beginning of the Stone Age : EOLITHIC
  • 22 Value : PRIZE
  • 24 Wilson on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : RITA
  • 25 Back on board : AFT
  • 26 1968 Peace Nobelist Cassin : RENE
  • 27 Garments that sound like you’d exercise in them : PUSH-UP BRAS
  • 30 “Let’s ___!” : EAT
  • 31 California setting of several Steinbeck novels : MONTEREY
  • 32 I, for one : PRONOUN
  • 34 At a discount : REDUCED
  • 38 Big brass : GENERALS
  • 40 ___ fever, a.k.a. allergic rhinitis : HAY
  • 41 Have a natural interest in gambling? : SHOOT CRAPS
  • 44 Wear out : TIRE
  • 45 Company that helped launch TMZ : AOL
  • 46 Spot : ESPY
  • 47 Spots for dips : POOLS
  • 48 Japanese dish of raw fish and vegetables over rice : CHIRASHI
  • 51 Kind of limit : TERM
  • 52 Was peripatetic : ROVED
  • 53 Untrained, perhaps : IN DIAPERS
  • 57 Up : AHEAD
  • 58 Ignored protocol : GONE ROGUE
  • 59 House of ___ : LORDS
  • 60 Beat reporting? : HEART RATE

Down

  • 1 ___ esprit (gifted person) : BEL
  • 2 Suffix with acetyl : -ENE
  • 3 Involve as an unwilling participant : DRAG INTO
  • 4 Charge, in a way : IONIZE
  • 5 Many a frontline worker : NURSE
  • 6 Words after keep or going : … AT IT
  • 7 Importune : BEG
  • 8 Albert Camus or Isaac Asimov, religiously : ATHEIST
  • 9 What over 40 million U.S. adults do annually : GO TO THERAPY
  • 10 They’re known for their holiday gifts : MAGI
  • 11 2019 rap hit whose title follows the lyric “How much money you got?” : A LOT
  • 12 Mandrake the Magician’s sidekick : LOTHAR
  • 13 Modern protest group : ANTIFA
  • 14 Jerks, say : REACTS
  • 21 Rightful praise : LAURELS
  • 22 School for the college-bound, informally : PREP
  • 23 Bench warmer? : REAR
  • 24 Rush while racing? : RUNNER’S HIGH
  • 27 Springs : POUNCES
  • 28 Ones using a x-walk : PEDS
  • 29 One side of a coll. football “Holy War” rivalry : BYU
  • 31 Vintner Claude : MOET
  • 33 Intl. Rescue Committee, e.g. : NGO
  • 35 Largest college sorority by enrollment (380,000+ members) : CHI OMEGA
  • 36 Noble title : EARL
  • 37 Goes green, say? : DYES
  • 39 Golden Ball winner in 2019’s Women’s World Cup : RAPINOE
  • 41 Of holy rites : SACRAL
  • 42 Christmas cheer? : HO HO HO!
  • 43 Twist in a story : OLIVER
  • 44 Lethargy : TORPOR
  • 47 Neil ___, drummer/lyricist for the rock band Rush : PEART
  • 49 Inbox category : READ
  • 50 Puts on : ADDS
  • 51 Level : TIER
  • 54 Subj. of supercoiling : DNA
  • 55 Same old, same old : RUT
  • 56 “Let’s ___ …” : SEE

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