New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 12 20

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