New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BOOT CAN
GRAND ___ OPRY OLE
Fashionable dresser FOP
“Seinfeld” role ELAINE
Soccer legend who played for both sides in his final match in 1977 PELE
THEY HANG AROUND THE HOUSE DRAPES
Nickname for Edward NED
“Dear” man SIR
EAGLE CONSTELLATION AQUILA
EXHAUSTING USING
DIRECTIONAL SUFFIX ERN
Anesthetized, so to speak UNDER
Letter of completion, in brief CERT
Longtime diplomat Abba EBAN
Across a wide expanse of rural land OVERHILLANDDALE
Onetime Yankees pitcher Hideki IRABU
Craft at camp CANOE
Relative of a slot canyon GULCH
Completely black, as the sky INKY
CONCEALER VEIL
Part of a turntablist’s headgear, for short DJMIC
Dad on “Black-ish” DRE
End of nearly half of all website addresses COM
Ref. work that Tolkien contributed to from “waggle” to “wild” OED
Speakers in many classrooms, for short PAS
POST-OP PROGRAM REHAB
“Do you know who ___?” IAM
Strips in a club? BACON
AROMATIC HERB TARRAGON
Attire for many bagpipe players KILTS
Event suggested by this puzzle’s circled squares, read clockwise from the top PARTY
Some merchandising opportunities TIEINS
They work in meters POETS
Uncertain affirmation IGUESSSO
BUCKET OF BOLTS JUNKER
African who lives along the coast of the Red Sea ERITREAN
Coat named for a former Irish province ULSTER
What may come before further notice? UNTIL
Brand with a joystick ATARI
GIG COMPONENTS MEGS
RARER THAN RARE ONCEINALIFETIME
“All ___” (court order) RISE
VIOLINIST ZIMBALIST EFREM
Very good hand to be dealt in poker FOURACES
TERRA ___ COTTA
Letters of endorsement, in brief RECS
Cabinet resignee of 1988 MEESE
Source of intelligence RECON
PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS NEE
Pair of hand drums, in Indian music TABLA
MUSICIAN BRIAN ENO
Participant in an ultramarathon ENDURANCERUNNER
“Tonight?s another chance to start ___” (lyric from “It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve”) AGAIN
HANDLES CLUMSILY PAWSAT
Goofs in proofs ERRATA
FIT TONED
FOIL ALTERNATIVES EPEES
TOOK A TURN WENT
“Count” in the Blues Hall of Fame BASIE
___ Drogo, Jason Momoa’s character on “Game of Thrones” KHAL
Wall Street, e.g. FINANCIALCENTER
Twists can thicken it PLOT
“The Faerie Queene” woman whose name means “peace” IRENA
Street in Strasbourg RUE
TURNER AUTOBIOGRAPHY ITINA
Shade by the pool? AQUA
Hour at which to sing “Auld Lang Syne” XII
Goethe’s “The ___-King” ERL
It might have a small bulb MEDICINEDROPPER
Like art conveying emotion rather than realism EXPRESSIONISTIC