New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 12 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Chinese dog breed, for short PEKE
Adds to the code, say ENACTS
Apt name for a thief ROB
Rooney of “Women Talking” MARA
Slogged (through) WADED
Its first airing was “The French Chef” with Julia Child PBS
“And the ___ raths outgrabe” (“Jabberwocky” line) MOME
It’s a little shady BONSAITREE
Last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, familiarly CLEO
Exclamation with a shake BRR
Most of the 1980s REAGANERA
“The Hate U Give” author Thomas ANGIE
Lead-in to -gram EPI
Losing athlete in the 2002 and 2003 N.B.A. Finals NET
Runs off at the mouth? DROOLS
Like a noisy toy YAPPY
Oft-kissed part of the statue of St. Peter in Vatican City TOE
Reason for foot-tapping antsiness
Lines in bars URLS
Bed hogs, at times WEEDS
Mount ___, Canada’s highest peak LOGAN
All the greater MORESO
“I kinda like it!” THATSNOTBAD
SALT, but not PEPPER NUCLEARPACT
Star-forming region nearest to Earth ORIONNEBULA
Alabama is in it, but Alaska is not LOWERFORTYEIGHT
Returner’s call LET
LANDS COMESASHORE
“Worth a shot” ITCANTHURT
Japanese food that’s a good source of what it spells backward NORI
Some who whistle while they work REFS
What some people display after getting stuck? TATS
Noisy Asian bird MYNA
X follower, perhaps BOT
Like many on a Zoom call REMOTE
Vineyard eponym MARTHA
Like a sole-source contract NOBID
Blue laws, e.g. BANS
This means trouble SOS
Woodpecker’s fare SAP
Short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one ERE
Track stat ETD
Austrian composer Mahler ALMA
Shield, with “for” RUNINTERFERENCE
Character who says “I am short, fat and proud of that” POOH
Not born yesterday, so to speak ASTUTE
Shifty little sucker? BENDYSTRAW
FIRST NAME IN COUNTRY REBA
TURNED (OFF) SHUT
Shrinks’ org. APA
STAKE FUND
One who’s made it to some degree? COLLEGEGRAD
Comms group PRTEAM
BLACK-AND-WHITE DIVERS AUKS
Pen for a hit ECIG
Far below the surface DEEPSEATED
FORM LETTERS? WRITE
À la King? NOBLY
The “King of Mambo” TITOPUENTE
C.D., e.g.: Abbr. ACCT
Latin for “trumpet” TUBA
Jhené ___, Grammy-nominated R&B singer AIKO
Pill alternatives, in brief IUDS
No longer waffle OPT
CONFIRMATION, FOR ONE RITE
Madrid’s Teatro Real, for one OPERAHOUSE
ISOLATED SILOED
GO BALLISTIC BLOWAGASKET
CERTAIN TECH EXEC CIO
BAD PLACE TO BE STUCK RUT