New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Element of an English Opening in chess PAWN
“___ got a feeling ?” IVE
George who wrote “Romola” ELIOT
Gathering of protesters RALLY
Models used in copying TEMPLATES
What might have bumps on a log? TOAD
Makes the rounds CIRCULATES
large, flightless birds EMUS
Sort who’s easy to tick off HOTHEAD
King at the start of “Game of Thrones” ROBERT
Influential ties INS
CHICKEN ___ KING ALA
COMEBACKS RETORTS
CHILLY COLD
___ MATER ALMA
FOR ONE EACH
NADA NIL
MAKES LESS DIFFICULT EASES
FOR US OUR
Overnight work assignment ? or a hint to understanding four rows of answers in this puzzle LATESHIFT
Cry at la Copa Mundial GOL
Sections of a barn STALLS
Tried casually, with “in” DABBLED
“You got it!” YUP
Work as an interpreter TRANSLATE
Size option at Starbucks VENTI
Sister ___ Prejean, author of the 1993 best seller “Dead Man Walking” HELEN
Top, for instance, but not bottom TOY
Onetime Ford executive EDSEL
It’s stored in a vein ORE
Good thing to give someone while standing OVATION
Chicken king? PERDUE
What leftover salad greens do in the refrigerator WILT
Took the bench, say SAT
Lime chaser? ADE
More petulant, in a way MOPIER
World Cup datum ASSIST
“I really appreciate it!,” in textspeak TYVM
IDLE LOAF
SLIGHTLY ABIT
SAW THE SIGHTS TOURED
Molt SHED
X TEN
ONE IN 100 SENATOR
Camper’s protection DEET
Camper’s detritus ASH
Lazily lie LOLL
“It was ___ dream” ALLA
Big Sur runner beginning in 2020 IMAC
Euphemism for a lesbian couple GALPALS
Hybrid beverage in a Bloody Caesar cocktail CLAMATO
Forensic inits. CSI
“I swear!” NOLIE
Fresh start, metaphorically CLEANSLATE
Capped LIMITED
PINCH IN THE KITCHEN SALT
X CHI
DRAPED GARMENT SARI
THE OTHER SIDE THEM
CRY OF ACCOMPLISHMENT DONE
BACKING AID
GRASSY EXPANSES LEAS
THE LAST POPE JULIUS III
DVR PIONEER TIVO
“See ya!” ADIOS
HAYEK WHO PORTRAYED FRIDA KAHLO SALMA
Easter starter? NOR
Points to, in a way IDS
Cutter with a curve SCYTHE
You might check their crossings: Abbr. STS
Good name for a firefighter? BLAISE
Something dingy? BELL
Piece of an overhanging roof EAVE
Stomach-dropping feeling DREAD
“___ doing …” INSO
Former name signifier NEE
Show with “featured players,” in brief SNL
Body part affected by heterochromia EYE