The December 17 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 Delights
- 5a Seesaw-powered vehicle on railroad tracks
- 12a They may be wireless
- 16a Mass approvals
- 18a Bay Area start-up mecca
- 19a Powered (by)
- 21a Where Lords Byron and Tennyson studied
- 23a Site of a claw machine
- 24a Private meeting
- 25a Add, as cilantro to guacamole
- 27a “___ of course!”
- 28a Alternative to Google
- 29a Failed web venture, in slang
- 33a Previously, in poetry
- 34a Biggest club in Vegas?
- 35a Flabbergast
- 36a Real dump
- 38a Features of Russian Orthodox churches
- 40a Trekker to Mecca
- 43a Org. that employed W.W. II-era Donald Duck as a spokesperson
- 44a Murals or graffiti, e.g.
- 46a How one might sing an R&B ballad
- 50a It might make your hair stand on end
- 51a Whales swim in them
- 52a Declaration upon arrival
- 55a Mormon Church inits.
- 56a Sensational reading material
- 60a ___-repeated
- 61a Longstanding rivalries
- 62a Stir up
- 64a Expansive
- 65a Recreational ___
- 66a 1937 Steinbeck novella
- 70a Pedicure target
- 71a Count on one hand?
- 73a Airer of the morning show “Get Up”
- 74a Do the bare minimum
- 75a Olive in old comics
- 76a “You!?,” whimsically
- 77a Former M.L.B. left-handed pitchers Jackson and Leiter
- 79a Like the moon in a solar eclipse
- 81a Malicious Mr. of fiction
- 82a A regular in Italian clubs?
- 85a 2002 hit song for No Doubt
- 87a Cry for a spell?
- 90a Angsty and brooding
- 91a Significant piece
- 92a In the heart of, poetically
- 93a Due ÷ due
- 94a Fast-food chain with a sunrise in its logo
- 98a Call in a ring, for short
- 99a Dweller in a tree hollow
- 101a Obnoxiously fratty sort
- 102a “Allow me to demonstrate?”
- 106a Be an ambassador for, in brief
- 107a “It all makes sense now”
- 110a Like some economies and moisturizers
- 112a Left-wing protest group
- 114a Past disagreements that are no longer of concern … or each block of shaded squares in this puzzle?
- 118a Don’t give up on
- 119a How ancient mariners relied on the stars
- 120a Actress Witherspoon
- 121a Sport
- 122a Apt word spelled from this puzzle’s “covered” letters, top to bottom
- 123a Office monitor, in brief
- Down
- 1d Son of Isaac
- 2d Citizen neighboring 3-Down
- 3d Nation across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Djibouti
- 4d Make out, in London
- 5d Must
- 6d Drink from the tap?
- 7d Negative connector
- 8d They often need new suits for work, for short
- 9d Move up
- 10d “___ girl!”
- 11d “Succession” TV family
- 12d Left jobs on bad terms, say
- 13d Remote button
- 14d Home of the Rosa Parks Museum
- 15d Siren, for one
- 17d Space heater?
- 18d Alternative to a cab
- 19d “Sounds reasonable”
- 20d Abominate
- 22d Go-aheads
- 26d “Hi there, friend”
- 30d Practices diplomacy
- 31d How Reubens are made
- 32d O.R. V.I.P.s
- 35d Suffer
- 36d Put together
- 37d Fad figurine with colorful unkempt hair
- 39d What takes a toll?
- 40d Chooses sidewalk over subway, say
- 41d Long story short?
- 42d Au ___ (menu phrase)
- 45d Dum-dum
- 46d Life partner
- 47d It’s a lot for a lord to manage
- 48d “I mean … uh … it’s just …”
- 49d Don Juan
- 53d Adler who outwitted Sherlock Holmes
- 54d Worn ___ frazzle
- 57d “Go ahead and decide”
- 58d Co-star of “Airplane!” and “Hot Shots!”
- 59d Left quickly, with “out”
- 61d “The Crown” actress Claire
- 63d How some Cajuns converse
- 64d Crumb lugger
- 67d Required E.M.T. skill
- 68d Much of it is junk
- 69d “Cómo ___ usted?”
- 72d Mastodons’ defenses
- 77d Taking after
- 78d Lapis ___, blue gem pulverized for paint during the Renaissance
- 80d “Arabian Nights” prince
- 81d 1950s school dance
- 83d Over the line, so to speak
- 84d Texter’s “To me …”
- 86d Sludge
- 87d Operator of the Texas Eagle and Southwest Chief
- 88d Perfectly refurbished
- 89d Rescue dog, e.g.
- 90d School email ender
- 95d Some low-risk government issues, informally
- 96d Take for ___ (bamboozle)
- 97d Natalie with 12 Top 40 hits
- 100d “Are you serious?!”
- 101d Unlink from a social media post, say
- 102d California’s San ___ County
- 103d Barbecue leftovers
- 104d “Hoo-boy!”
- 105d Brainstorm
- 108d Lowly deckhand
- 109d What one star may mean
- 111d [shiver]
- 113d Bitter brew, in brief
- 115d Cause of a swollen head
- 116d Air … or chair
- 117d Illegal car maneuver, often
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