New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Digits carried in long division ONES
A, as in Avignon UNE
Baby’s first word, maybe DADA
Frequent object of doting attention GRANDKID
Gift for a budding architect, maybe LEGOSET
___ of the Union STATE
Shocking fish in the Amazon EELS
“Here’s a short summary,” in internet lingo TLDR
What Santa doesn’t get much of on Christmas Eve SLEEP
UPS COMPETITOR DHL
ALTO OR SOPRANO VOICE
Union of Hollywood performers, for short SAG
SOFT LEATHER SUEDE
PARTNER IN CRIME ABETTOR
GERUND SUFFIX ING
___-DO-WELL NEER
TURF SOD
OF THE KIDNEYS RENAL
HEALTH RESORTS SPAS
QUASH END
PULL OFF A SPOOL UNREEL
ACTRESS HAYEK SALMA
GOVT. PROSECUTORS DAS
Best-case scenarios OPTIMUMS
Readied for publication EDITED
Material for an interior renovation DRYWALL
“That’s my ___!” (“I’m up!”) CUE
Words that start a game of tag YOUREIT
Volcanic peak ruled by Sauron in “The Lord of the Rings” MTDOOM
Places for playthings, with a hint to this puzzle’s shaded squares TOYBOXES
“I’ll wait to hear from you” CALLME
Some military brass? BUGLES
3:1 or 5:2, e.g. ODDS
Have a crush on, cutesily LIKELIKE
Showily bohemian ARTY
Middles of Mr. Potato Head faces NOSES
LETTER AFTER SIGMA TAU
PUTS ON DONS
EACH APOP
ARRIVE COME
U.F.O. CREW ALIENS
BRAVERY VALOR
TEAR UP REND
___ Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason ERLE
“Not guilty,” e.g. PLEA
Fashion designer Kamali NORMA
Destroys, as a dog might a stuffed animal CHEWSUP
Lakshmi who wrote the memoir “Love, Loss, and What We Ate” PADMA
Classic sandwich order, in brief BLT
Sit on, as a seesaw STRADDLE
Some recreation ctrs. YMCAS
Over-the-hill lament IMSOOLD
Three-time Cy Young winner Martinez PEDRO
Long-eared pal of Pooh EEYORE
“You can’t leave this way” sign NOEXIT
“Move it, already!” LETSGO
Part of a mosque, typically DOME
Transportation company headquartered in San Francisco UBER
What’s rolled to get from Free Parking to Go to Jail, in Monopoly TEN
Attired like Batman or Superman CAPED
BLOUSE OR TEE TOP
HAND (OUT) DOLE
SUFFIX WITH BENZ- ENE
DISCONSOLATE SAD
LONG-EARED HOUND BEAGLE
GENERAL ON A CHINESE MENU TSO
EXTINCT BIRDS OF MAURITIUS DODOS
UNADORNED NAKED
Begin, as an adventure EMBARKON
DENTAL CONCERN DECAY
STUNK REEKED
LACKING PIGMENT ALBINO
Lightens up? PALES
FELLA BUB
Arthur Conan ___ DOYLE
PEST CONTROL BRAND DCON
HOSTS, FOR SHORT MCS
“Despicable Me” protagonist GRU