New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 12 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Like many romance novels ESCAPIST
Breaking down grammatically SPARING
BIG BASH DISHING
Like the feeling of déjà vu EERIE
Apple or BlackBerry BRAND
One of a pair of mismatched friends on “Sesame Street” ERNIE
Onetime Kremlin ruler TSAR
TO DATE ASYET
Org. with conferences NCAA
NATIVE RWANDAN HUTU
FALL BEHIND LAG
OUT OF THE ORDINARY ODD
Elaborate hairstyle COIF
TRICK RUSE
“I wasn’t finished ?” ALSO
___ Drafthouse (movie theater chain) ALAMO
GO CAVING SPELUNK
Word before a time stamp in direct messaging SEEN
MELBER ON MSNBC ARI
Matches (with) AGREES
Places in the pecking order USSTATES
Flower that gets its name from the Greek word for “rainbow” IRIS
First (and last) two words of “Green Eggs and Ham” IAM
Mate’s call AHOY
LOOKING OVER EYING
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” villain COUNTOLAF
Rapper who founded Aftermath Entertainment DRDRE
Voltaire or Leibniz, religiously speaking DEIST
What Monday meals might lack MEAT
MARSH PLANT SEDGE
College where 20 prime ministers were educated ETON
Big name in dental floss ORALB
Matching pullover-and-cardigan pairs TWINSETS
Setting for the 2019 comedy “Wine Country” NAPA
They’ve got you covered ROOFS
STARTING POINT GERM
___ district, feature of many an urban area ARTS
BIT TAD
LONG STORIES SAGAS
Dr. Zhivago’s love LARA
Name on Canadian pumps ESSO
Course concluder FINAL
GEAR TOOTH COG
Important post at the Post COLUMNIST
SICKLY-LOOKING WAN
Singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills” SIA
They’re checked before a show MICS
PACE CADENCE
Largest city on the Tasman Sea SYDNEY
___ PUNK (HYBRID MUSIC GENRE) SKA
Like much movie theater popcorn REBUTTED
LAO-___ TSE
“Sure thing, boss!” ONIT
“La Forza del Destino,” for one OPERA
DIRECTOR LEE ANG
OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIEN
Past issues to settle COLDSORES
12 MESES ANO
Atop, quaintly OER
Drawing on USING
Hefty expense for an R.V. trip GAS
NOT FOR HERE TOGO
“Help wanted” sign? SOS
Missions, in brief OPS
Symbol of obstinacy ASS
Chain restaurant whose name sounds like something a rabbit might say? IHOP
FOOD THICKENER AGAR
Small amount of LSD, e.g. MICRODOSE
Pixar film whose title suggests how to read five answers in this puzzle INSIDEOUT
MOXIE SPUNK
Fertile refuge OASIS
SMALL EARRINGS STUDS
Nickname for N.B.A. great Nate Archibald (he was actually 6’1″) TINY
Does programming work CODES
Raincoats, in England MACS
Tight curl KINK
No place for fine china KIDSTABLE
Org. with the sculpture “Kryptos” outside its headquarters CIA