The December 18 2023 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Parishioners’ bench
- 4a Spanish “Bye!”
- 9a Unexpected plot development
- 14a Before, in poetry
- 15a Variety show with skits and songs
- 16a Got out of bed
- 17a Preliminary tournament stage
- 20a Commotion
- 21a Campus figure with a “list”
- 22a 1960s soul singer Redding
- 23a Filipino or Laotian
- 26a Fig. on a college transcript
- 29a “Spring forward” clock setting: Abbr.
- 30a Snake oil salesman’s offering
- 33a Move just a little
- 34a Got hitched in Vegas, perhaps
- 35a Cause for a produce recall
- 38a Lawyers’ org.
- 40a 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.
- 41a 1989’s “Honey, I ___ the Kids”
- 43a Wonderland visitor
- 45a Woman temporarily serving as monarch
- 47a Ice cream amts.
- 50a Disorderly bunch
- 51a Beginning phase
- 52a Last word in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
- 53a Actress ___ Skye
- 55a Passes into law
- 57a Financial statement issued every three months
- 62a Railroad property in Monopoly
- 63a Actress Davis of “Thelma & Louise”
- 64a 20-sided game piece in Dungeons & Dragons
- 65a Intelligence
- 66a Important agent in bread dough and beer fermentation
- 67a Guinness book suffix
- Down
- 1d Captain Ahab’s ship in “Moby-Dick”
- 2d Shoots lava
- 3d What to do “if the shoe fits”
- 4d Prima donna’s chance to shine
- 5d Swindle
- 6d Poison ___ (plant)
- 7d French assent
- 8d Maurice who wrote “Where the Wild Things Are”
- 9d Olympic figure skating champion Lipinski
- 10d Ill-advised maneuver
- 11d Debtor’s note
- 12d ID with two hyphens
- 13d TV’s “___ Lasso”
- 18d The “L” of U.C.L.A.
- 19d Sci-fi or romance
- 24d Story that spans generations
- 25d Swelling reducers for sprains
- 27d Pet name for José
- 28d Gulf of ___ (waters off the coast of Yemen)
- 30d Anthony who played Zorba in “Zorba the Greek”
- 31d Put into power
- 32d Football distances: Abbr.
- 33d Colorful symbols of hope and happiness
- 35d Lawyer’s title: Abbr.
- 36d Pal
- 37d Cookie in cookies and cream
- 39d Opposite of aweather, to a sailor
- 42d Coin of Denmark
- 44d Summer office workers
- 46d Pep
- 47d Scannable black-and-white square ⦠or a hint to 17-, 30-, 45- and 57-Across
- 48d Video game with falling blocks
- 49d Six lines in a sonnet
- 52d Percussive dance style
- 54d Great Plains tribe
- 56d “Super-cool!”
- 57d Over half of all Super Bowl M.V.P.s, for short
- 58d Dubai’s country, for short
- 59d ___ Arbor, Mich.
- 60d Stan who co-created the Marvel Universe
- 61d Vote of support
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