New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 12 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Major success stories in the entrepreneurial world UNICORNSTARTUPS
FRENCH 101 VERB ETRE
SPANISH 101 VERB SER
Lin-Manuel Miranda, vocally TENOR
MILK USE
Splash of orange in a Japanese pond KOI
SHARPNESS TANG
Micronesian nation PALAU
Stay there! INN
Place to take notes ATM
“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___”: Emily Dickinson SOUL
Places with scrubs and masks SPAS
MOVE LIKE A CRAB SIDLE
MENS ___ REA
Ancient music halls ODEA
Pablo Neruda wrote one to a large tuna in the market ODE
Rhea’s relative EMU
Abbr. in a scholarly paper ETAL
Goddess often depicted clothed in green GAIA
John, in Portuguese JOAO
CHABLIS, E.G. VIN
ALLOWED LICIT
Check mark alternatives XES
Aptly named descendant of Standard Oil ESSO
Softballs LOBS
Refuse to sign one’s work, say REMAINANONYMOUS
Sighting from the crow’s nest LAND
M.L.B. team that once drafted Tom Brady EXPOS
I.O.U. CHIT
Letters on an invite BYOB
Certain film shot, or film reaction PAN
Symbol of America’s first transcontinental railroad THEGOLDENSPIKE
2023 film in which Michael Jordan is only shown from behind AIR
Masters of disguise SPIES
Certain seizure REPO
Hairstyle change NEWDO
Had carte blanche ANSWEREDTONOONE
Member of the Golden Horde TATAR
It comes straight from the horse’s mouth REIN
Where to watch the cubs DEN
Pool contents GENES
LARGEST CELL IN THE HUMAN BODY OVUM
GARFIELD, FOR ONE CAT
Like some handshakes and mattresses FIRM
Subject of 199 silkscreen paintings by Warhol MAO
Came down after getting lifted up? SKIED
BARN GREETING MOO
Harsh sentences? TONGUETWISTERS
Lead-in to pass SUR
Veins, e.g. MINERALDEPOSITS
Performance that might elicit a “Brava!” ARIA
The sun emerging from the clouds at exactly the right time, say OMEN
“Sorry, those secrets are *beyond* classified” IDHAVETOKILLYOU
“Jeepers!” OHMY
2024 M.L.B. All-Star ___ De La Cruz ELLY
EGG ___ YUNG FOO
#1 overall, say TOPSEEDED
Willing partner ABLE
Acquire, informally SCORE
MANY A FOUNDING FATHER, RELIGIOUSLY DEIST
Dish whose name is Turkish for “stuffed” DOLMA
Common motifs in high art? MARIJUANALEAVES
TRIUMPH WIN
Lymph node, e.g. ORGAN
Fig. that’s often redacted SSN
Org. with towers AAA
One of three in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” ACT
French composer who influenced Ravel and Debussy SATIE
Like the ruins in Tulum MAYAN
Young and inexperienced, so to speak SNOTNOSED