NYT Crossword Answers 01/06/24

Across Clues

• 1 “Ciao”TATA
• 5 Out-of-focus effect in photography, from the Japanese for “blur”BOKEH
• 10 Stunt for three, six or 10 people, typicallyHUMANPYRAMID
• 13 Olympic bars?NATIONALANTHEM
• 15 Doesn’t come out all at onceOOZES
• 16 DeftAGILE
• 17 It’s a big dealACE
• 18 Most tongue-in-cheekWRYEST
• 20 Pop-___ (some visits)INS
• 21 One might get a leadSTAR
• 22 Surrealist filmmaker BuñuelLUIS
• 23 Possible side effect of using steroidsACNE
• 25 Long division?AISLE
• 26 Certain pseudoscience, for shortESP
• 27 Lead-in to rockPROG
• 28 Director LeeANG
• 29 “Bad plan!,” in Southern slangTHATDOGDONTHUNT
• 35 “Here hung those lips that I have kiss’d I know not how ___”: HamletOFT
• 36 Cells that handle low-light visionRODS
• 37 “___ man can tether time or tide”: BurnsNAE
• 38 Some score marksRESTS
• 41 Ones who tell each other *everything*BFFS
• 42 P.A. gearAMPS
• 43 Emerald ___ISLE
• 44 “A symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal,” according to John SteinbeckWAR
• 45 MysticOCCULT
• 47 Org. that maintains a museum in Annapolis Junction, Md.NSA
• 48 California’s San ___ CountyMATEO
• 50 Troubadours’ instrumentsLUTES
• 51 Show with an hourglass in its opening title sequenceDAYSOFOURLIVES
• 54 Performance-based paycheckYEARENDBONUS
• 55 They change colorsDYERS
• 56 SpotSITE

Vertical Clues

• 1 PupilsTUTEES
• 2 OffAMISS
• 3 “___: The Watercourse Way” (Alan Watts book)TAO
• 4 Fashion designer SuiANNA
• 5 Author creditBYLINE
• 6 Exams you don’t need a pencil forORALS
• 7 “Citizen ___”KANE
• 8 First responder, for shortEMT
• 9 Drum kit components with pedalsHIHATS
• 10 Unfiltered brewHAZYIPA
• 11 Comment after a revealing momentPAGINGDRFREUD
• 12 Sticker on a model, e.g.DECAL
• 13 “Take your time!”NORUSH
• 14 OnlyMERE
• 15 Baby covered in fluffy downOWLET
• 19 Fool’s deckTAROT
• 21 [Aw, jeez!]SIGH
• 24 Small part of a systemCOG
• 25 Carpenters, maybe?ANTS
• 27 Many downloadsPDFS
• 28 “Thus …”ANDSO
• 30 LugTOTE
• 31 “That’s rough, buddy”OOF
• 32 Prepares to speak, in a modern meetingUNMUTES
• 33 Where pizza is said to have been inventedNAPLES
• 34 Finals, but not semifinalsTESTS
• 38 Twist of a screwdriver?RIND
• 39 Part of many 34-DownESSAY
• 40 Impressed greatly, as at a drag showSLAYED
• 41 They’re relayed in a relayBATONS
• 42 Big name in contact lensesACUVUE
• 44 Thin slice of silicon at the heart of an integrated circuitWAFER
• 46 American soccer icon ___ DempseyCLINT
• 48 Glutton’s constant desireMORE
• 49 SpheresORBS
• 52 “Suppose …”SAY
• 53 Pascal’s law?LOI