NYT Crossword December 17 2023 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on December 17 2023.

140
Total Clues
65
Total Across
75
Total Down

Clues Across (65 total)

(1)
Delights
(5)
Seesaw-powered vehicle on railroad tracks
(12)
They may be wireless
(16)
Mass approvals
(18)
Bay Area start-up mecca
(19)
Powered (by)
(21)
Where Lords Byron and Tennyson studied
(23)
Site of a claw machine
(24)
Private meeting
(25)
Add, as cilantro to guacamole
(27)
"___ of course!"
(28)
Alternative to Google
(29)
Failed web venture, in slang
(33)
Previously, in poetry
(34)
Biggest club in Vegas?
(35)
Flabbergast
(36)
Real dump
(38)
Features of Russian Orthodox churches
(40)
Trekker to Mecca
(43)
Org. that employed W.W. II-era Donald Duck as a spokesperson
(44)
Murals or graffiti, e.g.
(46)
How one might sing an R&B ballad
(50)
It might make your hair stand on end
(51)
Whales swim in them
(52)
Declaration upon arrival
(55)
Mormon Church inits.
(56)
Sensational reading material
(60)
___-repeated
(61)
Longstanding rivalries
(62)
Stir up
(64)
Expansive
(65)
Recreational ___
(66)
1937 Steinbeck novella
(70)
Pedicure target
(71)
Count on one hand?
(73)
Airer of the morning show "Get Up"
(74)
Do the bare minimum
(75)
Olive in old comics
(76)
"You!?," whimsically
(77)
Former M.L.B. left-handed pitchers Jackson and Leiter
(79)
Like the moon in a solar eclipse
(81)
Malicious Mr. of fiction
(82)
A regular in Italian clubs?
(85)
2002 hit song for No Doubt
(87)
Cry for a spell?
(90)
Angsty and brooding
(91)
Significant piece
(92)
In the heart of, poetically
(93)
Due ÷ due
(94)
Fast-food chain with a sunrise in its logo
(98)
Call in a ring, for short
(99)
Dweller in a tree hollow
(101)
Obnoxiously fratty sort
(102)
"Allow me to demonstrate?"
(106)
Be an ambassador for, in brief
(107)
"It all makes sense now"
(110)
Like some economies and moisturizers
(112)
Left-wing protest group
(114)
Past disagreements that are no longer of concern ... or each block of shaded squares in this puzzle?
(118)
Don't give up on
(119)
How ancient mariners relied on the stars
(120)
Actress Witherspoon
(121)
Sport
(122)
Apt word spelled from this puzzle's "covered" letters, top to bottom
(123)
Office monitor, in brief

Clues Down (75 total)

(1)
Son of Isaac
(2)
Citizen neighboring 3-Down
(3)
Nation across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Djibouti
(4)
Make out, in London
(5)
Must
(6)
Drink from the tap?
(7)
Negative connector
(8)
They often need new suits for work, for short
(9)
Move up
(10)
"___ girl!"
(11)
"Succession" TV family
(12)
Left jobs on bad terms, say
(13)
Remote button
(14)
Home of the Rosa Parks Museum
(15)
Siren, for one
(17)
Space heater?
(18)
Alternative to a cab
(19)
"Sounds reasonable"
(20)
Abominate
(22)
Go-aheads
(26)
"Hi there, friend"
(30)
Practices diplomacy
(31)
How Reubens are made
(32)
O.R. V.I.P.s
(35)
Suffer
(36)
Put together
(37)
Fad figurine with colorful unkempt hair
(39)
What takes a toll?
(40)
Chooses sidewalk over subway, say
(41)
Long story short?
(42)
Au ___ (menu phrase)
(45)
Dum-dum
(46)
Life partner
(47)
It's a lot for a lord to manage
(48)
"I mean ... uh ... it's just ..."
(49)
Don Juan
(53)
Adler who outwitted Sherlock Holmes
(54)
Worn ___ frazzle
(57)
"Go ahead and decide"
(58)
Co-star of "Airplane!" and "Hot Shots!"
(59)
Left quickly, with "out"
(61)
"The Crown" actress Claire
(63)
How some Cajuns converse
(64)
Crumb lugger
(67)
Required E.M.T. skill
(68)
Much of it is junk
(69)
"Cómo ___ usted?"
(72)
Mastodons' defenses
(77)
Taking after
(78)
Lapis ___, blue gem pulverized for paint during the Renaissance
(80)
"Arabian Nights" prince
(81)
1950s school dance
(83)
Over the line, so to speak
(84)
Texter's "To me ..."
(86)
Sludge
(87)
Operator of the Texas Eagle and Southwest Chief
(88)
Perfectly refurbished
(89)
Rescue dog, e.g.
(90)
School email ender
(95)
Some low-risk government issues, informally
(96)
Take for ___ (bamboozle)
(97)
Natalie with 12 Top 40 hits
(100)
"Are you serious?!"
(101)
Unlink from a social media post, say
(102)
California's San ___ County
(103)
Barbecue leftovers
(104)
"Hoo-boy!"
(105)
Brainstorm
(108)
Lowly deckhand
(109)
What one star may mean
(111)
[shiver]
(113)
Bitter brew, in brief
(115)
Cause of a swollen head
(116)
Air ... or chair
(117)
Illegal car maneuver, often

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