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19 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Solutions
19 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Across
- 1 They might be put on : ACTS
- 5 Singer Grande, informally : ARI
- 8 Undercover attire? : PJ’S
- 11 ___ Creole (Caribbean language) : HAITIAN
- 18 Drive-___ : THRU
- 19 Certain urban map : BUS ROUTE
- 22 Demoralize : UNNERVE
- 23 Little tyke / Flatter, with “up” : PEANUT/BUTTER
- 25 Things bachelors might have : DEGREES
- 26 Certain Scandinavian : FINN
- 27 “Gimme ___!” (start of a cheer at three Big Ten schools) : AN I
- 28 Noted Dadaist : ARP
- 30 ___ Helmer, Ibsen heroine : NORA
- 31 Scalpel creations : SLITS
- 33 Relative of a tee-hee / Bit of marginalia : SNICKER/DOODLE
- 39 M.L.K. or R.B.G.: Abbr. : INITS
- 41 Stage name of rapper Yasiin Bey : MOS DEF
- 42 Forest spirit : DRYAD
- 43 Pep / Onesie feature : GINGER/SNAP
- 47 “Sure, I’m game” : LET’S
- 49 UNICEF address suffix : ORG
- 50 H.S. subj. : ENG
- 51 Words before point or rate : AT ANY …
- 52 Ring / Hold, as inhabitants : TOLL/HOUSE
- 55 Med school subj. : ANAT
- 57 Certain Scandinavian : DANE
- 58 “The One I Love” band : REM
- 59 ___ Hall (“The Wind in the Willows” residence) : TOAD
- 60 Loud but friendly growl : RAWR
- 61 Bow : ARC
- 62 Adjusts the spacing between, as typed letters : KERNS
- 64 No ___ (apartment policy) : PETS
- 67 Big name in cast-iron cookware : STAUB
- 69 Reduce in volume / As new : THIN/MINT
- 72 It’ll knock you out : ETHER
- 74 Ogler : EYER
- 75 Chiwere speakers : OTOES
- 76 Christmas ornament, often : ORB
- 78 Modern prefix with medicine : TELE-
- 79 Becomes less taut : SAGS
- 82 Old “Up, up and away” sloganeer : TWA
- 83 Mannheim madame : FRAU
- 84 Fivers : ABES
- 85 Kind of leaf / Scientist born on Christmas Day in 1642 : FIG/NEWTON
- 89 With 111-Down, cholesterol reducer : OLEIC …
- 90 Musician Brian : ENO
- 91 Paris’s ___ Saint-Louis : ILE
- 92 ___ Finch, “ER” doctor : CLEO
- 93 Possible result of getting one’s wires crossed / Moolah : SHORT/BREAD
- 96 Singer/actress Shore : DINAH
- 98 Big block : LOGJAM
- 101 Two-time U.S. Open tennis champion while still a teen : SELES
- 102 Breakfast dish / Fruitcake tidbit : OATMEAL/RAISIN
- 106 Amasses, with “up” : RACKS …
- 108 Nuclear medicine units : RADS
- 109 “___, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” : YES
- 110 ___ culpa : MEA
- 112 Trig function : SINE
- 113 Some laundromat machines : COIN-OPS
- 116 This puzzle’s images, in two different ways : COOKIE CUTTERS
- 121 Physician awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by G. W. Bush : DR FAUCI
- 122 Party staple : ONION DIP
- 123 Prefix with space : AERO-
- 124 Chandelier part, often : CRYSTAL
- 125 ___-mo : SLO
- 126 Football units: Abbr. : YDS
- 127 Hurdle for a J.D. wannabe : LSAT
18 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Down
- 1 Court sport grp. : ATP
- 2 Course preparers : CHEFS
- 3 Becoming faint : TRAILING AWAY
- 4 Solarium activity : SUNNING
- 5 National dance co. : ABT
- 6 It was eliminated from the U.S. in 2004 : RUBELLA
- 7 Library IDs : ISBNS
- 8 Kitty : POT
- 9 Project : JUT
- 10 Outback orders : STEAKS
- 11 Cabinet dept. since 1965 : HUD
- 12 Come to ___ : AN END
- 13 Fit : IN GOOD SHAPE
- 14 Nightmare : TERROR
- 15 “Got it” : I READ YOU
- 16 “___ Maria” : AVE
- 17 Super Mario Bros. platform : NES
- 20 Downfall : RUIN
- 21 Dropped the ball : ERRED
- 24 Remove, as a ribbon : UNTIE
- 29 Green shampoo : PRELL
- 32 Italian thoroughfare : STRADA
- 34 Wishy-washy response : I MAY
- 35 Get, slangily : COP
- 36 Genuine : HEARTFELT
- 37 Filmmaker von Trier : LARS
- 38 Little lead : EDGE
- 40 Some graffiti : STREET ART
- 43 First and reverse : GEARS
- 44 Not learned : INNATE
- 45 Proverb-spouting Panza : SANCHO
- 46 Lancaster-to-Scranton dir. : NNE
- 48 Citrus hybrid : TANGELO
- 52 Come to ___ : TERMS
- 53 Present opening? : OMNI-
- 54 “Gonna Let It Shine” singer : ODETTA
- 56 Personal essence : TRUE SELF
- 58 Where to go on a trip? : REST AREA
- 62 Not a mystery : KNOWN
- 63 One keeping others up at night, perhaps : SNORER
- 65 Something else : THE BEE’S KNEES
- 66 Singer Gomez : SELENA
- 68 Went in a different direction : BRANCHED OUT
- 70 “What’s ___ you?” : IT TO
- 71 Pride and prejudice, e.g. : TRAITS
- 73 Fix, as a lawn : RESOD
- 77 Pirate : BUCCANEER
- 80 Set : GEL
- 81 Mushroom : SWELL
- 83 Woman in Progressive ads : FLO
- 85 Classic dog name : FIDO
- 86 Hip bones : ILIA
- 87 What some neighborhoods do : GENTRIFY
- 88 More than enough : TOO MANY
- 89 Volts/amp : OHMS
- 93 Long-tailed monkey : SAI
- 94 Blowout party : BLAST
- 95 Piano performance, possibly : RECITAL
- 97 Some ranges : AMANAS
- 99 El ___ (“View of Toledo” painter) : GRECO
- 100 ___ Cradle (maritime rescue device) : JASON’S
- 103 Popular adoption agcy. : ASPCA
- 104 “Sign me up!” : I’M IN!
- 105 High-maintenance : NEEDY
- 107 Richard famous for large-scale sculptures : SERRA
- 111 See 89-Across : … ACID
- 113 Agcy. fighting epidemics : CDC
- 114 Bobby of the N.H.L. : ORR
- 115 Part of R.S.V.P. : S’IL
- 117 Old-fashioned menorah filler : OIL
- 118 “Kitchy-kitchy-___!” : KOO
- 119 Raises : UPS
- 120 Teetotaler’s opposite : SOT
