New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 12 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Abbr. in a scholarly paper ETAL
Places with scrubs and masks SPAS
Common motifs in high art? MARIJUANALEAVES
Major success stories in the entrepreneurial world UNICORNSTARTUPS
Goddess often depicted clothed in green GAIA
BARN GREETING MOO
#1 overall, say TOPSEEDED
One of three in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” ACT
2023 film in which Michael Jordan is only shown from behind AIR
Symbol of America’s first transcontinental railroad THEGOLDENSPIKE
Veins, e.g. MINERALDEPOSITS
Pablo Neruda wrote one to a large tuna in the market ODE
Where to watch the cubs DEN
I.O.U. CHIT
MANY A FOUNDING FATHER, RELIGIOUSLY DEIST
Softballs LOBS
Refuse to sign one’s work, say REMAINANONYMOUS
Like the ruins in Tulum MAYAN
It comes straight from the horse’s mouth REIN
Rhea’s relative EMU
Performance that might elicit a “Brava!” ARIA
Lead-in to pass SUR
Certain film shot, or film reaction PAN
French composer who influenced Ravel and Debussy SATIE
Aptly named descendant of Standard Oil ESSO
John, in Portuguese JOAO
Sighting from the crow’s nest LAND
M.L.B. team that once drafted Tom Brady EXPOS
Place to take notes ATM
Lin-Manuel Miranda, vocally TENOR
Came down after getting lifted up? SKIED
Lymph node, e.g. ORGAN
Hairstyle change NEWDO
Masters of disguise SPIES
MILK USE
FRENCH 101 VERB ETRE
Fig. that’s often redacted SSN
The sun emerging from the clouds at exactly the right time, say OMEN
Member of the Golden Horde TATAR
2024 M.L.B. All-Star ___ De La Cruz ELLY
Dish whose name is Turkish for “stuffed” DOLMA
Like some handshakes and mattresses FIRM
Ancient music halls ODEA
“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___”: Emily Dickinson SOUL
Org. with towers AAA
Splash of orange in a Japanese pond KOI
CHABLIS, E.G. VIN
Pool contents GENES
Certain seizure REPO
Subject of 199 silkscreen paintings by Warhol MAO
Micronesian nation PALAU
Willing partner ABLE
LARGEST CELL IN THE HUMAN BODY OVUM
SPANISH 101 VERB SER
GARFIELD, FOR ONE CAT
Had carte blanche ANSWEREDTONOONE
“Sorry, those secrets are *beyond* classified” IDHAVETOKILLYOU
Young and inexperienced, so to speak SNOTNOSED
Harsh sentences? TONGUETWISTERS
EGG ___ YUNG FOO
ALLOWED LICIT
SHARPNESS TANG
MOVE LIKE A CRAB SIDLE
MENS ___ REA
Check mark alternatives XES
TRIUMPH WIN
Acquire, informally SCORE
Letters on an invite BYOB
“Jeepers!” OHMY
Stay there! INN