The December 20 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.
Search clue name or clue number.
- Across
- 1a Quartet that reunited in 2022 to “perform” as holograms
- 5a Hell’s Half ___ (Wyoming landmark)
- 9a Chromosomes come in them
- 14a Croc, for one
- 15a Big name in bubbly
- 16a Condition linked with grinding teeth
- 17a District on the western coast of Hawaii
- 18a Craisin brand
- 20a Female scholars
- 22a Lead-in to zone
- 23a Smallish batteries
- 24a Author Patchett
- 27a Components of Mars’s Viking and Pathfinder
- 30a Intrinsic makeup
- 33a Fabric whose name is French for “cloth”
- 35a Hirsute cousin of old TV
- 36a Gooey addition to a charcuterie board
- 37a Where turn signals are found
- 41a Delicacies for which Aveiro, Portugal, is known
- 42a “Surely you don’t mean me!?”
- 43a Speechless expression
- 44a Showstoppers?
- 45a Bach composition
- 48a Scratch, say
- 49a It might be cocked or bent
- 50a N.B.A.’s Westbrook, to fans
- 52a Grammy winners for “Jump (for My Love)” (1984)
- 59a “Apologies for bothering you ⦔
- 60a Massage deeply
- 62a Mosquito, by nature
- 63a Chip in
- 64a Ski lift
- 65a Dutch settlers of South Africa
- 66a With 67-Across, one of two pen names punnily hinted at by 20-, 37- and 52-Across (can you find the other one?)
- 67a See 66-Across
- Down
- 1d “Oh, no!”
- 2d Explode
- 3d Pro ___
- 4d Best effort
- 5d Egyptian sun god
- 6d Result of some spinning
- 7d Danger for a mariner
- 8d Abbreviated abbreviation
- 9d They might be served carbonara or puttanesca
- 10d Datebook data: Abbr.
- 11d About, on a memo
- 12d Vanguard’s opposite
- 13d “Survey ___ ⦔ (“Family Feud” catchphrase)
- 19d Almost adjoining
- 21d Swiss mathematician who introduced functional notation
- 24d Totally confused
- 25d Prominent
- 26d Physicist Bohr
- 28d You can count on it
- 29d Abbreviated abbreviation
- 30d Amateur pediatrician, informally
- 31d Strong, silent type?
- 32d Norse pantheon
- 34d Paul for whom a guitar is named
- 36d Backside
- 38d Turkish inn
- 39d Prefix with apology or denial
- 40d “He is richest who is content with the ___”: Socrates
- 45d Supplies, as a soiree
- 46d Stiff bristle, botanically
- 47d Elephant or warthog, e.g.
- 49d Put in
- 51d Company with Counting Sheep commercials
- 52d Last name in soft drinks
- 53d Reds state
- 54d “Not hungry yet, but thanks anyway”
- 55d Word with “Revolutionary” or “Tobacco,” in book titles
- 56d In one’s right mind
- 57d ___ Stark, Lord Eddard’s eldest on “Game of Thrones”
- 58d Unit of meat or marble
- 61d Fish hatchlings