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16 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Solutions
16 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Across
- 1 Corresponds : AGREES
- 7 Very much : A LOT
- 11 Hot temper : IRE
- 14 Something often held underwater : BREATH
- 15 Flummox : BEWILDER
- 17 Flummox : BEMUSE
- 18 Shakespeare, notably : SONNETEER
- 19 Call of support : YEA!
- 20 Grazer with a bushy beard : GNU
- 21 Joined forces (with) : SIDED
- 22 South American arboreal snake : TREE BOA
- 26 Laser tag equipment : GUNS
- 27 Depictions of lands’ ups and downs : RELIEF MAPS
- 29 Seriously shortchange : ROB
- 32 Focal points of a debate : MAIN ISSUES
- 34 Offensive line : BARB
- 35 Mind : OBEY
- 36 Brambles with edible purple fruit : DEWBERRIES
- 39 Resting place : BED
- 40 Uncompromising sorts : HARD-LINERS
- 42 Small bouquet : POSY
- 43 Setting for Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” : ILLYRIA
- 45 Casts off : SHEDS
- 47 Weekly 90-min. TV show : SNL
- 48 Cowboys’ grp. : NFC
- 50 Word with room or system : OPERATING …
- 52 Flummox … or a classic word game represented by the central grid of shaded squares, in which 15-, 17- and 55-Across can be found : BOGGLE
- 55 Flummox : BEFUDDLE
- 56 Nonchalant : CASUAL
- 57 No. after a no. : EXT
- 58 Drink sometimes served in a masu cup : SAKE
- 59 Hits the roof : ERUPTS
16 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Down
- 1 “Sesame Street” Muppet with magical powers : ABBY
- 2 Hug or kiss, maybe : GREET
- 3 Took a second? : REMARRIED
- 4 Three-vowel French word that sounds like a fourth vowel : EAU
- 5 French connections : ETS
- 6 ___-wolf : SHE
- 7 “___ Ben Adhem” (Leigh Hunt poem) : ABOU
- 8 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Goodman : LEN
- 9 Comes clean : OWNS UP
- 10 Certain marketing gimmicks : TIE-INS
- 11 Pensée : IDEE
- 12 Liberal arts college in Portland, Ore. : REED
- 13 Transgress : ERR
- 16 Former Fords : LTDS
- 18 In a real mess : SNAFUED
- 20 Runs out of water : GOES DRY
- 23 Start of a count-off : EENY …
- 24 Name that drops “-jah” : ELI
- 25 Dumbbell curls build them, for short : BIS
- 26 Monthly utility statement : GAS BILL
- 28 Sound from a crib : MEWLING
- 29 Giving a boost : RAISING UP
- 30 Unrefined material : ORE
- 31 Dangerous pellets : BBS
- 32 Rabble : MOB
- 33 Figure on a fiver : ABE
- 34 Winter exclamation : BRRR!
- 37 Photo lab request: Abbr. : ENL
- 38 Singer Lana del ___ : REY
- 40 Surfer wannabes : HODADS
- 41 Subordinate in the prosecutor’s office: Abbr. : ASST DA
- 42 Its flag has vertical stripes of red-white-red : PERU
- 44 Key just above G : A-FLAT
- 45 Glasses, informally : SPEX
- 46 Weight : HEFT
- 47 Old dagger : SNEE
- 49 Collectible cartoon frames : CELS
- 50 Award turned down by Alan Rickman: Abbr. : OBE
- 51 Variety : ILK
- 52 Pre-A.D. : BCE
- 53 Piece of equipment for certain summer Olympians : OAR
- 54 Atlanta sch. : GSU
