New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 26

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