New York Times – Dec 27 2022
New York Times – Dec 27 2022
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Honest’ guy on a five | ABE |
| ‘I don’t need to hear all that!’ | TMI |
| ‘Now I see!’ | AHA |
| ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ dramatist Thomas | KYD |
| 42 weeks pregnant, e.g | OVERDUE |
| Assault on the ears | NOISE |
| Be crazy about | ADORE |
| Bemoans, as a loss | LAMENTS |
| Betray … or a hint to what’s found in this puzzle’s shaded squares | DOUBLECROSS |
| Blockhead | OAF |
| Bring back to its original condition | RESTORE |
| Catching some Z’s | ASLEEP |
| Caterpillar or tadpole | LARVA |
| Charitable offerings of old | ALMS |
| Classic car inits | REO |
| Command for a soldier to relax | STANDATEASE |
| Compañero | AMIGO |
| Cookie once promoted with the line ‘Take a lick — you’ll love it’ | OREO |
| D.C.-based teachers’ union | NEA |
| Drifting ice mass | FLOE |
| Fail to keep a promise | RENEGE |
| Financially solvent | AFLOAT |
| Former Exxon name | ESSO |
| Glisten | SPARKLE |
| Goes out of business | CLOSES |
| Hauls into court | SUES |
| Have as one’s residence | LIVEAT |
| Helpful pollinator | BEE |
| Ice skate part | BLADE |
| In the manner of | ALA |
| Italy’s outline | BOOT |
| Joined together by heating | FUSED |
| Like a low, horizontal throw used by shortstops | SIDEARM |
| Mafia chief | CAPO |
| Mama ___ Elliot of 1960s folk | CASS |
| Means to a goose laying golden eggs, in a fairy tale | BEANSTALK |
| Melville’s ‘___ Budd’ | BILLY |
| Most serious | GRAVEST |
| Name that’s hidden in ‘Easy does it’ | SYD |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Negotiator’s skill | DIPLOMACY |
| Nonhuman internet ‘account holder’ | BOT |
| Ohio city on Lake Erie | TOLEDO |
| One of the Gershwin brothers | IRA |
| One of the Kardashians | KIM |
| One with a booth at a flea market | VENDOR |
| Org. that oversees court battles | NBA |
| Passing craze | FAD |
| Pen for horses on a ranch | CORRAL |
| Plastic used in piping, for short | PVC |
| Poet W. H. ___ | AUDEN |
| PONG Quest gaming company | ATARI |
| Post-disaster help, e.g | AID |
| Pretends | LETSON |
| Promotional snippets from a film | CLIPS |
| Reddish purple | MAGENTA |
| Relative of an ostrich | EMU |
| Sean who voiced the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Raphael | ASTIN |
| Sheepish utterance? | BAA |
| Small groups of conspirators | CABALS |
| Snoopy’s breed | BEAGLE |
| Sound that rebounds | ECHO |
| Sound upgrade from mono | STEREO |
| Spits rhymes, so to speak | RAPS |
| Square footage | AREA |
| State out loud | SAY |
| Stock market purchases | SHARES |
| Tableware for special guests | CHINA |
| Take a breather | REST |
| Texter’s chortle | LOL |
| Thickness, as of yarn | PLY |
| Trojan hero in a Virgil epic | AENEAS |
| Trucker’s haul | LOAD |
| U.S. TV regulator | FCC |
| Unhinge mentally | DERANGE |
| Weekend comedy hit, in brief | SNL |
| White wine named for the European river valley where it’s produced | MOSELLE |
| Yeats’s ‘___ and the Swan’ | LEDA |
| ___ room (play space) | REC |