New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
___ of the Union STATE
A, as in Avignon UNE
DENTAL CONCERN DECAY
“Here’s a short summary,” in internet lingo TLDR
What Santa doesn’t get much of on Christmas Eve SLEEP
Union of Hollywood performers, for short SAG
Baby’s first word, maybe DADA
Frequent object of doting attention GRANDKID
Gift for a budding architect, maybe LEGOSET
Digits carried in long division ONES
Shocking fish in the Amazon EELS
FELLA BUB
GERUND SUFFIX ING
PARTNER IN CRIME ABETTOR
UNADORNED NAKED
ALTO OR SOPRANO VOICE
“That’s my ___!” (“I’m up!”) CUE
Words that start a game of tag YOUREIT
UPS COMPETITOR DHL
___-DO-WELL NEER
TURF SOD
OF THE KIDNEYS RENAL
3:1 or 5:2, e.g. ODDS
SOFT LEATHER SUEDE
Begin, as an adventure EMBARKON
Material for an interior renovation DRYWALL
Volcanic peak ruled by Sauron in “The Lord of the Rings” MTDOOM
Places for playthings, with a hint to this puzzle’s shaded squares TOYBOXES
GOVT. PROSECUTORS DAS
Best-case scenarios OPTIMUMS
QUASH END
LETTER AFTER SIGMA TAU
PUTS ON DONS
LONG-EARED HOUND BEAGLE
PULL OFF A SPOOL UNREEL
“I’ll wait to hear from you” CALLME
Some military brass? BUGLES
Have a crush on, cutesily LIKELIKE
HEALTH RESORTS SPAS
Classic sandwich order, in brief BLT
Sit on, as a seesaw STRADDLE
Showily bohemian ARTY
STUNK REEKED
LACKING PIGMENT ALBINO
Long-eared pal of Pooh EEYORE
Lightens up? PALES
DISCONSOLATE SAD
Part of a mosque, typically DOME
Transportation company headquartered in San Francisco UBER
What’s rolled to get from Free Parking to Go to Jail, in Monopoly TEN
ARRIVE COME
ACTRESS HAYEK SALMA
Destroys, as a dog might a stuffed animal CHEWSUP
BLOUSE OR TEE TOP
Lakshmi who wrote the memoir “Love, Loss, and What We Ate” PADMA
Some recreation ctrs. YMCAS
Middles of Mr. Potato Head faces NOSES
Fashion designer Kamali NORMA
“Not guilty,” e.g. PLEA
___ Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason ERLE
BRAVERY VALOR
“You can’t leave this way” sign NOEXIT
TEAR UP REND
GENERAL ON A CHINESE MENU TSO
“Move it, already!” LETSGO
HOSTS, FOR SHORT MCS
EACH APOP
SUFFIX WITH BENZ- ENE
Arthur Conan ___ DOYLE
HAND (OUT) DOLE
U.F.O. CREW ALIENS
Readied for publication EDITED
Attired like Batman or Superman CAPED
Over-the-hill lament IMSOOLD
Three-time Cy Young winner Martinez PEDRO
PEST CONTROL BRAND DCON
EXTINCT BIRDS OF MAURITIUS DODOS
“Despicable Me” protagonist GRU