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17 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Solutions
17 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Across
- 1 Popular Korean rice dish : BIBIMBAP
- 9 Facial expression : VISAGE
- 15 Bach’s “Christmas ___” : ORATORIO
- 16 Offline activity? : IMPROV
- 17 Towered over : BESTRODE
- 18 Sugar in one’s coffee, e.g. : SOLUTE
- 19 Ancient land that included parts of modern Iraq and Turkey : ASSYRIA
- 20 Place to buy overpriced drinks : MINIBAR
- 21 Keane who drew “The Family Circus” : BIL
- 22 Do some light cardio : JOG
- 23 Ink : TATS
- 24 Quarters feed into them : SEMIS
- 27 Kind of salami : GENOA
- 29 His debut album was 1987’s “Rhyme Pays” : ICE-T
- 30 Tears : HOT STREAKS
- 35 “Ahhh!” : THAT HITS THE SPOT!
- 37 “Wow, wow, wow!” : HOLY SMOKES!
- 38 It’s made by coagulating soy milk : TOFU
- 39 Mammal with four toes on the front feet and three on the back : TAPIR
- 40 Pleasantly flavorful : SAPID
- 41 Financing figs. : APRS
- 45 C’est un article défini : LES
- 46 Certain judge’s ruling : LET
- 47 Portmanteau for a dumpster-diving anti-consumerist eater : FREEGAN
- 49 One might be offensive : LINEMAN
- 53 Just peachy : LOVELY
- 54 Deliberately damage : SABOTAGE
- 55 Possible cause of fatigue : ANEMIA
- 56 Mean figures : AVERAGES
- 57 People people : CELEBS
- 58 Milky Way and others : GALAXIES
17 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Down
- 1 Bubble tea : BOBA
- 2 Ticks off : IRES
- 3 Amp knob : BASS
- 4 Minute : ITTY-BITTY
- 5 Northern New Jersey county : MORRIS
- 6 Oven setting : BROIL
- 7 Sophia Loren title role of 1953 : AIDA
- 8 He once wrote “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity” : POE
- 9 Fifth-century invaders : VISIGOTHS
- 10 “That’s my cue!” : I’M ON!
- 11 Challenge in an alley : SPLIT
- 12 Dutch-speaking Caribbean island : ARUBA
- 13 Insinuated : GOT AT
- 14 Wisconsin governor Tony : EVERS
- 20 The original Frankenstein wasn’t one, despite popular belief : MONSTER
- 22 Competes in the Aquabike World Championship : JET SKIS
- 24 Jedi foe : SITH
- 25 Second : ECHO
- 26 Fast finish? : MEAL
- 27 Shook one’s defender, in sports lingo : GOT OPEN
- 28 “___ You Experienced” (Jimi Hendrix album) : ARE
- 30 It’s all downhill from here : HIMALAYAS
- 31 Passing financial concern? : ESTATE TAX
- 32 Per : A POP
- 33 First name in U.N. diplomacy : KOFI
- 34 Draw counterpart : STUD
- 36 Follower of F.D.R. : HST
- 40 Madame, across the Pyrenees : SENORA
- 41 It has a duck float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade : AFLAC
- 42 Inclined : PRONE
- 43 Have a ball : REVEL
- 44 Directive to talk : SEE ME
- 46 Some smears : LIBEL
- 48 A little too slick : GLIB
- 49 It’s hot stuff! : LAVA
- 50 Noted gift givers : MAGI
- 51 He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958 : AGEE
- 52 Adjective-to-noun suffix : -NESS
- 54 Slump : SAG