Friday December 20, 2024 NYT Crossword Answers 🎯

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The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Friday December 20, 2024 is displayed below.



ACROSS CLUES


1 Abbr. in a scholarly paper ETAL
5 Places with scrubs and masks SPAS
9 Acquire, informally SCORE
14 Common motifs in high art? MARIJUANALEAVES
17 Major success stories in the entrepreneurial world UNICORNSTARTUPS
18 Goddess often depicted clothed in green GAIA
19 Triumph WIN
20 Barn greeting MOO
21 #1 overall, say TOPSEEDED
26 One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" ACT
29 2023 film in which Michael Jordan is only shown from behind AIR
30 Check mark alternatives XES
32 Symbol of America's first transcontinental railroad THEGOLDENSPIKE
38 Veins, e.g. MINERALDEPOSITS
40 Harsh sentences? TONGUETWISTERS
41 Mens ___ REA
42 Pablo Neruda wrote one to a large tuna in the market ODE
43 Where to watch the cubs DEN
44 Young and inexperienced, so to speak SNOTNOSED
49 Egg ___ yung FOO
52 Subject of 199 silkscreen paintings by Warhol MAO
53 Softballs LOBS
56 "Sorry, those secrets are *beyond* classified" IDHAVETOKILLYOU
62 Refuse to sign one's work, say REMAINANONYMOUS
63 Like the ruins in Tulum MAYAN
64 It comes straight from the horse's mouth REIN
65 Willing partner ABLE

DOWN CLUES


1 Rhea's relative EMU
2 Sharpness TANG
3 Performance that might elicit a "Brava!" ARIA
4 Allowed LICIT
5 Lead-in to pass SUR
6 Certain film shot, or film reaction PAN
7 Had carte blanche ANSWEREDTONOONE
8 French composer who influenced Ravel and Debussy SATIE
9 Spanish 101 verb SER
10 Garfield, for one CAT
11 Largest cell in the human body OVUM
12 Certain seizure REPO
13 Aptly named descendant of Standard Oil ESSO
15 John, in Portuguese JOAO
16 Sighting from the crow's nest LAND
22 Micronesian nation PALAU
23 Move like a crab SIDLE
24 M.L.B. team that once drafted Tom Brady EXPOS
25 Many a founding father, religiously DEIST
26 Place to take notes ATM
27 I.O.U. CHIT
28 Lin-Manuel Miranda, vocally TENOR
31 Came down after getting lifted up? SKIED
33 Pool contents GENES
34 Lymph node, e.g. ORGAN
35 Hairstyle change NEWDO
36 Masters of disguise SPIES
37 French 101 verb ETRE
39 Fig. that's often redacted SSN
45 The sun emerging from the clouds at exactly the right time, say OMEN
46 Member of the Golden Horde TATAR
47 2024 M.L.B. All-Star ___ De La Cruz ELLY
48 Dish whose name is Turkish for "stuffed" DOLMA
49 Like some handshakes and mattresses FIRM
50 Ancient music halls ODEA
51 "Jeepers!" OHMY
54 Letters on an invite BYOB
55 "'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___": Emily Dickinson SOUL
57 Org. with towers AAA
58 Chablis, e.g. VIN
59 Splash of orange in a Japanese pond KOI
60 Stay there! INN
61 Milk USE