The full solution for the NY Times December 21 2021 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This Tuesday’s puzzle is edited by Will Shortz and created by Guilherme Gilioli.
Clues are grouped in the order they appeared. If the answers below do not solve a specific clue just open the clue link and it will show you all the other possible solutions that we have solved. Along with today's puzzles, you will also find the answers of previous crossword puzzles by NYT, that were published in the recent days or weeks.
Across Clues
- Bygone Russian rulerTSAR
- Rock band whose name also forms the call letters for a rock radio station in San AntonioKISS
- Like some spraysNASAL
- “The Simpsons” character with a palindromic nameOTTO
- Part of a footINCH
- “The best is ___ come”YETTO
- Capture the attention ofGRAB
- Not quite shutAJAR
- Sing smoothlyCROON
- Hawk’s homeAERIE
- Russia’s ___ MountainsURAL
- Dating ___APP
- Skiing and snowboardingWINTERSPORTS
- Fulfill completelySATE
- With special importanceNOTEDLY
- Sewing shop supplySPOOLS
- Puts money (on)BETS
- Lens holderEYE
- Work hard forEARN
- B or C of the Spice GirlsMEL
- Building with a loftBARN
- Prominent feature of a fennec foxEAR
- Pesky plantWEED
- Card suit that symbolizes a medieval weaponSPADES
- Hare ___KRISHNA
- Sight near an exit signDOOR
- Display of mentalism … or a hint to this puzzle’s shaded squaresSPOONBENDING
- www.nytimes.com, for oneURL
- Attempt, metaphoricallySTAB
- ReserveSTORE
- Give away, as a story’s endingSPOIL
- Smooth (out)IRON
- Walkie-talkie wordOVER
- Pinky and the Brain, for twoTOONS
- It may be printed on a place matMENU
- ___-do-wellNEER
- Put into the potANTED
- First place?EDEN
- WapitisELKS
Vertical Clues
- Caesar dressing?TOGA
- ScatterSTREW
- Developer of the game BreakoutATARI
- M.L.B.’s first Rookie of the Year (1947)ROBINSON
- Sorento automakerKIA
- Cause harm toINJURE
- Lasting marksSCARS
- Explosion fragmentsSHRAPNEL
- Home of the Met, the Whitney and the Frick, in briefNYC
- Make fizzyAERATE
- Halts abruptlySTOPSDEAD
- CrowningATOP
- Actor Chaney nicknamed “The Man of a Thousand Faces”LON
- List shortener: Abbr.ETAL
- Plundered goodsLOOT
- U.F.O. pilotsETS
- Some N.F.L. blockersRTS
- Orpheus’ instrumentLYRE
- UrgesYENS
- Ask forSEEK
- Talk show host JackPAAR
- Ingredient in perfume and potpourriORRISROOT
- Furniture depicted in Frida Kahlo’s “The Dream” (1940)BED
- Interim periodMEANTIME
- Singing voice meaning “heavy-sounding”BARITONE
- Question of identityWHO
- First and only chimpanzee to orbit EarthENOS
- Cronus, to UranusSON
- Whale groupsPODS
- Long, thin strip used in building constructionSPLINE
- Prepare, in a way, as chickenDEBONE
- Exposed for all to seeBARED
- Work of fictionNOVEL
- One of Cyprus’s two official languagesGREEK
- “___ the housetop, click, click, click …”UPON
- GoofsERRS
- Subway stop: Abbr.STA
- It may give you visualsLSD
- SisterNUN