New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 26

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