New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Travel requirement, at times VISA
Where the 10 countries with the lowest median age are all located AFRICA
Cluster, as of grass TUFT
Voice of doom ALARMIST
End up OK PANOUT
Prof’s helpers TAS
Factory ___ RESET
Secret traders SPIES
Father on “Modern Family” PHIL
Leave a mark on? ANNOTATE
Japanese exporter of diesel engines ISUZU
Letters that go in both blanks of ___ ___tofferson KRIS
Jug unit: Abbr. GAL
Bank note made of pure cotton fiber EURO
Bow-making timber ELM
“Enthusiasm is the mother of ___”: Ralph Waldo Emerson EFFORT
One may ask for a dinner preference RSVP
Acid container, maybe VAT
Friar known for his patronage of animals STFRANCIS
Product of volcanic activity BASALT
Guinness records, typically FEATS
Word before nail or after steel TOE
Boston, Amherst and others COLLEGES
“Great” 10th-century emperor OTTOI
Features of many ceratopsians HORNS
Something possibly triggered during a mass extinction event SEISM
“King James” LEBRON
MARY, QUEEN OF ___ SCOTS
SOUNDS OF SURPRISE OHS
IMMUNE RESPONSE TRIGGER ANTIGEN
VAN GOGH MASTERPIECE IRISES
BOOK BEFORE ROMANS ACTS
COMFY SHOE LOAFER
PUT UP ERECTED
“Joking!” IKID
It’s a me problem EGOISM
Novelist King who wrote “Caretakers” and “One on One” TABITHA
Writer’s reference ? or what each row of shaded letters is missing? THESAURUS
It helps keep a tight ship tight RIVET
Moccasins, but not oxfords SLIPONS
Annual architecture award PRITZKER
Certain grueling race, informally TRI
Pants, but half off? TROU
List follower ETC
Ruler’s dimensions? REALM
Crystalline mineral deposits in some caves NITER
Like Beethoven, by his mid-40s DEAF
What had a major impact on this puzzle’s theme? ASTEROID
COASTAL INLET RIA
BLUE MATERIAL SMUT
Some handoff recipients in football, for short RBS
NOTWITHSTANDING ALBEIT
QUATTRO PRECEDER TRE
“A Doll’s House” playwright IBSEN
NOT FORBIDDEN LICIT
BORING BIT AUGER
“___ Fideles” ADESTE
SOAK (UP) SOP
Digital money ECASH
COME TOGETHER MERGE
APPLICATIONS USES
HOSP. AREA ICU
Accelerated H.S. English course APLIT
WEST COAST AIRPORT CODE SFO
Newspaper supplement INSERT
Beethoven’s “Für ___” ELISE
First dog on an orbital spaceflight LAIKA
Spooked by SCAREDOF
SOME W.S.J. TOPICS IPOS
Ancient method of encipherment with a message wrapped around a cylinder SCYTALE
ONE DYING FOR A CAUSE MARTYR
Music producer Gotti who worked with Ja Rule and J.Lo IRV
Roman fountain name TREVI
“___ favor” POR
COMMON TYPEFACE ARIAL
Some investments, in brief IRAS