New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Travel requirement, at times VISA
Where the 10 countries with the lowest median age are all located AFRICA
SOUNDS OF SURPRISE OHS
BOOK BEFORE ROMANS ACTS
“King James” LEBRON
Word before nail or after steel TOE
Cluster, as of grass TUFT
Product of volcanic activity BASALT
Certain grueling race, informally TRI
Factory ___ RESET
Moccasins, but not oxfords SLIPONS
Voice of doom ALARMIST
It’s a me problem EGOISM
End up OK PANOUT
BORING BIT AUGER
NOT FORBIDDEN LICIT
“A Doll’s House” playwright IBSEN
QUATTRO PRECEDER TRE
NOTWITHSTANDING ALBEIT
BLUE MATERIAL SMUT
COASTAL INLET RIA
PUT UP ERECTED
COMFY SHOE LOAFER
“___ Fideles” ADESTE
Prof’s helpers TAS
“Joking!” IKID
Secret traders SPIES
Father on “Modern Family” PHIL
Leave a mark on? ANNOTATE
Japanese exporter of diesel engines ISUZU
Letters that go in both blanks of ___ ___tofferson KRIS
Jug unit: Abbr. GAL
Bank note made of pure cotton fiber EURO
Bow-making timber ELM
“Enthusiasm is the mother of ___”: Ralph Waldo Emerson EFFORT
One may ask for a dinner preference RSVP
Acid container, maybe VAT
Friar known for his patronage of animals STFRANCIS
What had a major impact on this puzzle’s theme? ASTEROID
Guinness records, typically FEATS
Some handoff recipients in football, for short RBS
Boston, Amherst and others COLLEGES
“Great” 10th-century emperor OTTOI
Features of many ceratopsians HORNS
Something possibly triggered during a mass extinction event SEISM
COME TOGETHER MERGE
Accelerated H.S. English course APLIT
First dog on an orbital spaceflight LAIKA
Novelist King who wrote “Caretakers” and “One on One” TABITHA
Writer’s reference ? or what each row of shaded letters is missing? THESAURUS
It helps keep a tight ship tight RIVET
Spooked by SCAREDOF
Annual architecture award PRITZKER
Ancient method of encipherment with a message wrapped around a cylinder SCYTALE
Pants, but half off? TROU
List follower ETC
Ruler’s dimensions? REALM
Crystalline mineral deposits in some caves NITER
Like Beethoven, by his mid-40s DEAF
Music producer Gotti who worked with Ja Rule and J.Lo IRV
Beethoven’s “Für ___” ELISE
Newspaper supplement INSERT
SOME W.S.J. TOPICS IPOS
WEST COAST AIRPORT CODE SFO
COMMON TYPEFACE ARIAL
APPLICATIONS USES
SOAK (UP) SOP
Some investments, in brief IRAS
“___ favor” POR
Roman fountain name TREVI
MARY, QUEEN OF ___ SCOTS
Digital money ECASH
IMMUNE RESPONSE TRIGGER ANTIGEN
VAN GOGH MASTERPIECE IRISES
HOSP. AREA ICU
ONE DYING FOR A CAUSE MARTYR