NYT Crossword Puzzle Answers 12/02/23

NYT ACROSS CLUES

  • 1 Like the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance, in science fictionATWAR
  • 6 Dutch Golden Age painterHALS
  • 10 Big ___TECH
  • 14 Statement of admiration after someone’s impressive featWHATABEAST
  • 16 Fruit whose name is three-quarters vowelsACAI
  • 17 Annual New Year’s Day eventROSEPARADE
  • 18 “Freak on a Leash” bandKORN
  • 19 “Mm-hmm”YUP
  • 20 A whole bunchGOBS
  • 21 It’s there by defaultPRESET
  • 23 Loudly lachrymatesSOBS
  • 24 CalmSOOTHE
  • 25 What to do?AGENDA
  • 28 Statement that is, in fact, not part of the Hippocratic oathDONOHARM
  • 30 High-protein pasteMISO
  • 31 Plain and bluntBALD
  • 33 PaceTEMPO
  • 34 Covert influencerUNCONSCIOUSBIAS
  • 37 Air pollution portmanteauSMAZE
  • 38 Still a contenderINIT
  • 39 It may be raised at a tableANTE
  • 40 What’s spread all over southern France?TAPENADE
  • 42 Wing alternativesTHIGHS
  • 44 Hands off (to)REFERS
  • 45 Reason to run in circles?MEET
  • 46 StillATREST
  • 47 Less than hardlyNARY
  • 48 ___ punk (genre for No Doubt)SKA
  • 51 Life sentences?BIOS
  • 52 Constantly posting pictures and news about one’s kids on social mediaSHARENTING
  • 55 Beyond regulation, for shortINOT
  • 56 “Hold your horses”EASYDOESIT
  • 57 Rice and CurryTIMS
  • 58 ___ ginger, a.k.a. galangalTHAI
  • 59 Takes ordersWAITS

NYT VERTICAL CLUES

  • 1 SidewaysAWRY
  • 2 GrandTHOU
  • 3 The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world) is oneWASP
  • 4 Took something with a grain of salt, maybeATE
  • 5 Boastful Eminem title with the Guinness world record for “most words in a hit single” (1,560)RAPGOD
  • 6 Ingredients pronounced differently in American and British EnglishHERBS
  • 7 Thin cell typesAAAS
  • 8 Stuff in microdotsLSD
  • 9 Squash or smoosh, maybeSTEPON
  • 10 Fall for a trick, sayTAKETHEBAIT
  • 11 Criticizing a refusal to recycle, e.g.ECOSHAMING
  • 12 Work in progress?CAREERPATH
  • 13 When doubled, comment made with a winkHINT
  • 15 “The Little Prince” treesBAOBABS
  • 22 They get down and dirtyROOTS
  • 23 BoresSNOOZEFESTS
  • 24 “Likewise”SODOI
  • 25 Something critical to haveAMUST
  • 26 Two-ingredient cocktail usually served with an olive or lemon twistGINMARTINI
  • 27 Breakout siteESCAPEROOM
  • 28 Tackling group, for shortDLINE
  • 29 Second-most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, after JesusMOSES
  • 32 One side of a chemistry scaleACIDS
  • 35 Spanish little onesNENES
  • 36 SaidUTTERED
  • 41 Kit for creative typesARTSET
  • 43 “Whoa, calm down!”HEYNOW
  • 45 Daughter of Catherine of AragonMARYI
  • 46 “Ish”ABIT
  • 47 Launch party?NASA
  • 48 “Ciertamente!”SISI
  • 49 Close-___KNIT
  • 50 Some Hollywood workers: Abbr.AGTS
  • 53 Taunting cryHAH
  • 54 It’s typically taken in the afternoonTEA

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