NYT Crossword December 2 2023 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on December 2 2023.

70
Total Clues
35
Total Across
35
Total Down

Clues Across (35 total)

(1)
Like the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance, in science fiction
(6)
Dutch Golden Age painter
(10)
Big ___
(14)
Statement of admiration after someone's impressive feat
(16)
Fruit whose name is three-quarters vowels
(17)
Annual New Year's Day event
(18)
"Freak on a Leash" band
(19)
"Mm-hmm"
(20)
A whole bunch
(21)
It's there by default
(23)
Loudly lachrymates
(24)
Calm
(25)
What to do?
(28)
Statement that is, in fact, not part of the Hippocratic oath
(30)
High-protein paste
(31)
Plain and blunt
(33)
Pace
(34)
Covert influencer
(37)
Air pollution portmanteau
(38)
Still a contender
(39)
It may be raised at a table
(40)
What's spread all over southern France?
(42)
Wing alternatives
(44)
Hands off (to)
(45)
Reason to run in circles?
(46)
Still
(47)
Less than hardly
(48)
___ punk (genre for No Doubt)
(51)
Life sentences?
(52)
Constantly posting pictures and news about one's kids on social media
(55)
Beyond regulation, for short
(56)
"Hold your horses"
(57)
Rice and Curry
(58)
___ ginger, a.k.a. galangal
(59)
Takes orders

Clues Down (35 total)

(1)
Sideways
(2)
Grand
(3)
The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world) is one
(4)
Took something with a grain of salt, maybe
(5)
Boastful Eminem title with the Guinness world record for "most words in a hit single" (1,560)
(6)
Ingredients pronounced differently in American and British English
(7)
Thin cell types
(8)
Stuff in microdots
(9)
Squash or smoosh, maybe
(10)
Fall for a trick, say
(11)
Criticizing a refusal to recycle, e.g.
(12)
Work in progress?
(13)
When doubled, comment made with a wink
(15)
"The Little Prince" trees
(22)
They get down and dirty
(23)
Bores
(24)
"Likewise"
(25)
Something critical to have
(26)
Two-ingredient cocktail usually served with an olive or lemon twist
(27)
Breakout site
(28)
Tackling group, for short
(29)
Second-most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, after Jesus
(32)
One side of a chemistry scale
(35)
Spanish little ones
(36)
Said
(41)
Kit for creative types
(43)
"Whoa, calm down!"
(45)
Daughter of Catherine of Aragon
(46)
"Ish"
(47)
Launch party?
(48)
"Ciertamente!"
(49)
Close-___
(50)
Some Hollywood workers: Abbr.
(53)
Taunting cry
(54)
It's typically taken in the afternoon

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