New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 26

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