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