New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Plays the wrong way CHEATS
Rama is one, in Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi novel “Rendezvous With Rama” ALIENSHIP
Locale dubbed the “Las Vegas of the East” MACAU
KNOCK HARD PAN
BIG BREAK SCHISM
Children’s TV character whose last name is Márquez DORA
Emphatic suffix ASS
BED COVER SOIL
Was defeated FELL
Who wrote “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” KEATS
Lewis who played Grizabella on Broadway LEONA
Little bit of make-up? ATOM
Card-dealing casino device SHOE
Cloverleaf cluster? INNS
Bigeye, for one TUNA
Stream interrupters ADS
One working on a keynote PIANOTUNER
Lovely, in Spanish BONITA
Appealing to an indie audience, maybe ARTY
Meeting extender REHASHING
Riffs on, modernly MEMES
“? apparently” ORSOITSEEMS
Words from someone who doesn’t want to be taken seriously IMKIDDING
“Take my word for it, you’re going to love this” THANKMELATER
Big name in vegan cheese DAIYA
“Didn’t you just leave?” BACKSOSOON
Making headlines, say NEWSWORTHY
Make it up? RISE
SOME BREAK DANCERS, INFORMALLY BBOYS
Scholz of German politics OLAF
Org. that offers free at-home hearing tests AARP
Family units CLANS
Letters that might make a long story short? TMI
Course that may cover Dante and Ferrante, familiarly APITALIAN
Telenovela profession TEAMO
Misselthwaite ___, setting of “The Secret Garden” MANOR
Soak (in) BATHE
Scummy locales PONDS
Get on the job EARN
Question expressing amazement HOWDOYOUDOIT
19-Across, to a Brit ARSE
Preantepenultimate letter PHI
Numbers can be read in this TORAH
Gender-neutral possessive ONES
Parts of tables ROWS
FIX, AS A BOWLINE RETIE
Last-ditch remedies for computer problems HARDRESETS
BUDS PALS
SUPPORT PIECE BEAM
SKYROCKETS SOARS
AUTHORS PENS
ELITISTS SNOOTS
They may have glass ceilings ATRIA
Like conventional music TONAL
SINGLE-___ USE
GATE FEATURE HASP
TERSE AFFIRMATION ITIS
Deservingness MERIT
___.D (therapist’s deg.) PSY
Figure in Sherpa folklore YETI
One of three in Fiji? DOT
Exactly the way you see me ASIAM
Address components DOMAINNAMES
Spanish count UNODOSTRES
ACRYLIC FINISH? CEE
TACKLES HASAT
Texter’s “ta-ta!” CYA
Setting for most Laker home games: Abbr. PST
“Your guide to a better future” website CNET
Largest part LIONSSHARE