The NY Times Mini Crossword December 21, 2024 puzzle by Christina Iverson is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
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- 1 Zap with a beam of light LASE
- 5 ___ solstice, the shortest day of the year WINTER
- 7 100 years CENTURY
- 8 100 years, for Jimmy Carter AGE
- 9 Roll with it! DIE
- 10 Sports newbies ROOKIES
- 12 Like each day relative to the day before it, for the next six months LONGER
- 13 Eugene V. ___, five-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America DEBS
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- 1 First blank on a form, maybe LINEONE
- 2 Unwanted crawler on a kitchen counter ANT
- 3 Prepares for a test STUDIES
- 4 More spooky EERIER
- 5 “Everything cool between us?” WEGOOD
- 6 Some loaves of bread … or a homophone for what they do in the oven RYES
- 7 Astronomer Sagan whose papers are archived in the Library of Congress CARL
- 11 Spy org. in “Bridge of Spies” KGB
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