New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 12 20

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