The December 09 2024 Puzzle Answers. Solutions listed below sorted by their clue number on the puzzle.
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- Across
- 1a Discontinued Apple music player IPOD
- 5a Baker’s amts. TSPS
- 9a Iranian language FARSI
- 14a Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me ___” MUCH
- 15a Backboard attachment HOOP
- 16a “Break the ice” or “break a leg” IDIOM
- 17a “Guilty,” e.g. PLEA
- 18a Upper hand EDGE
- 19a Accept eagerly LAPUP
- 20a Cocktail made with Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto and orange juice ALABAMASLAMMER
- 23a Give a positive or negative charge IONIZE
- 24a Flat-screen TV type, for short LCD
- 25a Drs.’ colleagues RNS
- 26a Subdivision UNIT
- 29a Relax, or a place to relax LOUNGE
- 34a Crinkly kitchen wrap ALUMINUMFOIL
- 36a Prank on the public HOAX
- 39a Actor Daniel ___ Kim DAE
- 40a Assns. ORGS
- 41a Writer, director and co-star of “Defending Your Life,” 1991 ALBERTBROOKS
- 46a Capital of the Bahamas NASSAU
- 47a Green Gables girl ANNE
- 48a Passé OLD
- 51a Stephen Colbert’s network CBS
- 53a ___ Babies (stuffed toys) BEANIE
- 55a 1986 hit song for Paul Simon … or an instruction from the starts of 20-, 34- and 41-Across? YOUCANCALLMEAL
- 60a Pianist’s pace TEMPO
- 61a Predator sometimes called the “wolf of the sea” ORCA
- 62a “To write is human, to ___ is divine”: Stephen King EDIT
- 63a $100, in slang HUNDO
- 64a Humdrum routines RUTS
- 65a Grp. whose logo features an orbiting spacecraft NASA
- 66a The “U” of 22-Down UNION
- 67a Sign in a parking garage EXIT
- 68a Some food additives DYES
- Down
- 1d Cause damage to IMPAIR
- 2d Like many comfy pants PULLON
- 3d Vast blue expanses OCEANS
- 4d Abu ___ DHABI
- 5d 2022 dark comedy that satirized haute cuisine THEMENU
- 6d Bubbly beverage SODA
- 7d Collectible cardboard caps of the 1990s POGS
- 8d Compete in a bee SPELL
- 9d The movie industry FILMDOM
- 10d Politician Schiff or Kinzinger ADAM
- 11d Like yellow bananas RIPE
- 12d Like lemons SOUR
- 13d Little hell-raiser IMP
- 21d Blue, in Spanish AZUL
- 22d Free speech grp. ACLU
- 27d Online source for cinephiles IMDB
- 28d Bejeweled topper TIARA
- 30d Sci-fi vehicles UFOS
- 31d “We can neither confirm ___ deny that this is our first tweet” (how @CIA opened its Twitter account) NOR
- 32d Short-term engagement GIG
- 33d Chi-town trains ELS
- 34d x and y, on a graph AXES
- 35d Highlighter-colored NEON
- 36d Chinese dynasty during which paper was invented HAN
- 37d Hello, in Portuguese OLA
- 38d Six-pack muscles ABS
- 42d Trash-loving critter RACCOON
- 43d What’s deep in a pit? TUBA
- 44d Subjected to public condemnation, in modern slang ONBLAST
- 45d Ship’s spine KEEL
- 48d Eventually ONEDAY
- 49d Work together (with) LIAISE
- 50d Triangular Greek letters DELTAS
- 52d Apt rhyme for “bore” SNORE
- 54d Change, as a bill or a will AMEND
- 55d Steven ___, Oscar-nominated actor for “Minari” YEUN
- 56d Prefix meaning “everything” OMNI
- 57d Hairstyle that’s swept UPDO
- 58d Pivotal point CRUX
- 59d Play opener ACTI
- 60d Two after Tue. THU
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