NYT Crossword Puzzle Answers 12/15/23
NYT ACROSS CLUES
- 1 Yard, nauticallySPAR
- 5 Desire for a ski jumperHANGTIME
- 13 ___ blue dot (Earth, in a famous photograph)PALE
- 14 “Knock it off!,” in question formCANYOUNOT
- 15 SinceASOF
- 16 Classic airplane snackSALTEDNUTS
- 17 General term in a seriesNTH
- 18 Number in a countBALLS
- 19 Change, as a lockREKEY
- 20 One in a million, so to speakRAREGEM
- 22 Journalism inits. since 1851NYT
- 23 One way to travel the worldBYSEA
- 24 Lines from a rapper, in slangBARS
- 26 Milk optionOAT
- 29 Earth-based pigmentOCHER
- 30 Likely hyperbole from a texterROFL
- 32 Equipment in hockey, lacrosse and pickleballNET
- 34 What one might look at the night sky withCHILDLIKEWONDER
- 38 ___ LingusAER
- 39 Badge holderSASH
- 40 Spanish geographical word that is an anagram of its English translationCOSTA
- 41 “Woo-hoo!,” in online shorthandFTW
- 43 Pronoun functioning as an object (not a subject!)WHOM
- 45 “Give me five!”UPTOP
- 46 Half full?ELS
- 48 “Dig in, everyone”LETSEAT
- 50 Tropical vineLIANA
- 53 Work from, as a deskSITAT
- 54 Purple ___, Hawaiian cropYAM
- 56 Bookie?AVIDREADER
- 58 ___ bottles (popular gummy candy)COLA
- 59 Bad press, sayMEDIABIAS
- 60 Event at high noonDUEL
- 61 Occasion to recite the Pledge of AllegianceASSEMBLY
- 62 Button usually held down by a pinkieCTRL
NYT VERTICAL CLUES
- 1 Word after life or CSPAN
- 2 One whose work might be a piece of cake?PASTRYCHEF
- 3 Bit of attire seldom worn with a jacketALOHASHIRT
- 4 One you might beseech to get glassesREF
- 5 Term for an overly commercialized celebrationHALLMARKHOLIDAY
- 6 At any one time, roughly 10,000 trillion of them roam the earthANTS
- 7 Bill concerned with science communicationNYE
- 8 Become barrenGODRY
- 9 Synchronize withTUNETO
- 10 Arctic nativeINUK
- 11 SpeckMOTE
- 12 Handmade goods siteETSY
- 14 One on the Israelites’ journey to the Promised LandCALEB
- 16 Lose tautnessSAG
- 18 What stubbles may becomeBEARDS
- 21 LurchREEL
- 22 Warning letters with a Reddit linkNSFW
- 23 ___ Juniors, soccer team for which Diego Maradona once playedBOCA
- 25 Canapé topperROE
- 27 “Don’t even think of coming back!”ANDSTAYOUT
- 28 NephalistTEETOTALER
- 31 Part of a biblical plagueLOCUST
- 33 Trick question, e.g.TRAP
- 35 Housework?LAWS
- 36 There or thereaboutsISH
- 37 2022 Jordan Peele filmNOPE
- 42 Actress MalickWENDIE
- 44 Hands (out)METES
- 47 West Coast N.F.L.’erLARAM
- 49 Damage the reputation ofTAR
- 50 Tibetan titleLAMA
- 51 Experimental composer CharlesIVES
- 52 SupportsAIDS
- 53 Set ___SAIL
- 55 Common place to see SantaMALL
- 57 Fade awayEBB
- 58 Public health org.CDC