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25 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Solutions
25 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Across
- 1 Things you might snap on, nowadays : PHOTO APPS
- 10 Something suddenly fashionable : THE NEW BLACK
- 12 Welcome sign of spring : SHORTS WEATHER
- 14 Bases of support : PLINTHS
- 15 Writer whose initials, when doubled, become another answer in this puzzle : TS ELIOT
- 17 Charge : IONIZE
- 18 Fly far, far away? : TSETSE
- 19 More familiar name for hydrated magnesium silicate : TALC
- 20 Sam who directed “A Simple Plan” : RAIMI
- 24 Ball ___ : PEEN
- 25 Body opening? : ANY-
- 26 Stuff : JAM-PACK
- 28 Subject of some MK-Ultra experiments : LSD
- 29 “Let’s pray it never comes to that” : GOD FORBID
- 31 Sarcastic response to an attempt at intimidation : OOH, I’M SCARED!
- 33 Java has a rare species of one : RHINO
- 34 “What ___?” : GIVES
- 36 Members of filmdom’s Breakfast Club : TEENS
- 37 The oldest known one was found carved into a mammoth tusk (∼25,000 B.C.) : MAP
- 40 Battery type : NICAD
- 42 They’re filled with dough : ATMS
- 43 Aquaman portrayer : MOMOA
- 45 Side (with) : ALLY
- 46 Listing in the Fortune 100 : MEGA-CORPORATION
- 49 W.N.B.A. M.V.P. in 2015 and 2019 : ELENA DELLE DONNE
- 50 Jumper, e.g. : SLEEVELESS DRESS
25 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Answers Down
- 1 Relating to sound : PHONIC
- 2 One cycle per second : HERTZ
- 3 1979 Donna Summer hit … or where it was heard : ON THE RADIO
- 4 Model and body positivity activist Holliday : TESS
- 5 Pained expression : OWW!
- 6 Help lift something, maybe? : ABET
- 7 Checkout choice : PLASTIC BAG
- 8 Some spreads : PATES
- 9 Lug : SCHLEP
- 10 Bad way to be disguised : THINLY
- 11 “Bad Lieutenant” star : KEITEL
- 12 Dulcé ___, correspondent for “The Daily Show” beginning in 2017 : SLOAN
- 13 Classic “I messed up” gift : ROSES
- 14 Souvlaki go-with : PITA
- 16 Be behind bars? : TEND
- 21 Switch letters : AM/FM
- 22 Some news on Wall St. : IPOS
- 23 Linguist Okrand who created Klingon : MARC
- 26 21 popes : JOHNS
- 27 Japanese beer : KIRIN
- 29 Lose it completely : GO INSANE
- 30 One straying from the norm : DEVIATOR
- 31 “No way!,” spelled out in a text : OH EM GEE
- 32 Refuse : DECLINE
- 33 Pass on : RETELL
- 35 Places to get waxed : SALONS
- 36 Reins in : TAMES
- 37 Spongelike delicacy : MOREL
- 38 Enough : AMPLE
- 39 Cannonball targets : POOLS
- 41 Units equal to 10 micronewtons : DYNES
- 43 Manner : MODE
- 44 Father of many children with Aphrodite : ARES
- 47 Ohio pro athlete, informally : CAV
- 48 Kick in : ADD
