The full solution for the NY Times December 15 2024 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by David Kwong and edited by Joel Fagliano. The name of this puzzle is Art Heist.
Quick searchAcross Clues
- 1 Chess player’s studyTACTICS
- 8 Painting stolen from 71-AcrossMONET
- 13 Cashless dealSWAP
- 17 Crunchy root vegetablesRADISHES
- 19 Fertilizer compoundPOTASH
- 20 Painting stolen from 64-AcrossKAHLO
- 21 Winter setting in New EnglandEASTERNSTANDARDTIME
- 23 Hunter on highORION
- 24 Like the Beatles’ “Yesterday,” key-wiseINF
- 25 Plum variety often used in spiritsSLOE
- 26 ___ centerREC
- 27 Made eyes atOGLED
- 28 SchedulesSLATES
- 31 Architectural annexesELLS
- 33 Bronx cheerGOYANKEES
- 35 Capital on the Río de la PlataBUENOSAIRESARGENTINA
- 39 “Anchors Aweigh” grp.USN
- 40 One step ___ timeATA
- 41 OodlesALOT
- 42 Downhill eventSLALOM
- 44 Prefix with healthTELE
- 48 Niçoise salad needTUNA
- 50 Role for Jay SilverheelsTONTO
- 52 Charles de Gaulle’s birthplaceLILLE
- 53 Neighborhood grocery storesBODEGAS
- 54 Painting stolen from 21-AcrossERNST
- 56 Nobelist BohrNIELS
- 58 EvenhandedFAIR
- 59 Customary practiceWONT
- 60 Popeye’s witchy foe in early comicsSEAHAG
- 62 Like a car’s wheelsAXLED
- 64 Bar with hashish pipesHOOKAHLOUNGE
- 66 Baseball great HershiserOREL
- 68 Solution strength, in chemistryTITER
- 70 Fat used in candlemakingSUET
- 71 Common scale rangeFROMONETOTEN
- 75 Champing at the bitEAGER
- 77 Fog and haze generated for a theatrical productionSMOKEEFFECTS
- 81 Flimsy, as an excuseLAME
- 82 Pillow coverSHAM
- 84 Fastens, in a wayTAPES
- 86 Nose aroundSNOOP
- 87 Director DuVernayAVA
- 88 Crumple into a ballWADUP
- 90 Informal speechSLANG
- 92 Painting stolen from 33-AcrossGOYA
- 93 Painting stolen from 105-AcrossMIRO
- 95 Opened or closed like an eye, in film lingoIRISED
- 97 No longer interested inOVER
- 98 Tour de France units: Abbr.KMS
- 99 Bout enders, for shortKOS
- 101 Health professional focused on nutritionREGISTEREDDIETITIAN
- 105 Household appliance that makes a hissing soundSTEAMIRON
- 108 “Right now!”STAT
- 109 Connecticut coastal town near StamfordDARIEN
- 110 Has the gumptionDARES
- 111 Actress ThurmanUMA
- 114 Abbr. on a music scoreCRES
- 116 Member of la familiaTIA
- 117 “Get ___!”ALIFE
- 118 Classic nursery rhymeMARYHADALITTLELAMB
- 124 Toronto team, for shortLEAFS
- 125 Attacked by mosquitoes, sayBITTEN
- 126 Claudius, vis-à-vis King HamletPOISONER
- 127 Land in the seaISLE
- 128 Iditarod entriesSLEDS
- 129 Annual star-studded fashion eventMETGALA
Vertical Clues
- 1 Three, in TorinoTRE
- 2 Letters associated with baseball and batteriesAAA
- 3 Many ’90s music purchasesCDS
- 4 Painting stolen from 101-AcrossTITIAN
- 5 Enjoys as a hobbyISERNSTNTO
- 6 Gets irritated byCHAFESAT
- 7 Title for Manchin or Murkowski: Abbr.SEN
- 8 First cars made by FordMODELSARGENTS
- 9 See 122-DownOTT
- 10 Hair removal brandNAIR
- 11 Salinger’s “For ___ ? With Love and Squalor”ESME
- 12 “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” airerTHECGOYA
- 13 Painting stolen from 35-AcrossSARGENT
- 14 “___ we’re waiting ?”WHILE
- 15 Cactuslike plantsALOES
- 16 Duffer’s obstaclePOND
- 18 ’60s campus activist grp.SDS
- 19 “1984” drudgePROLE
- 20 Eccentric typesKOOKS
- 22 Certain emergency messageALERTTEXT
- 28 Surgeon’s stitchSUTURE
- 29 Actress Creel of “Saved by the Bell”LEANNA
- 30 Beauty spot?SALON
- 32 Place to keep plantsSILL
- 34 AbundantNUMEROUS
- 35 Motel proprietor in “Psycho”BATES
- 36 Ancient Greek region for which part of the Mediterranean is namedIONIA
- 37 Innocent sortNAIF
- 38 God of the Qu’ranALLAH
- 43 HodgepodgesOLIOS
- 45 Dark, in poesyEBON
- 46 Like some vowels and memoriesLONG
- 47 90° from norteEDEGASTE
- 49 On dry groundASHOMONETE
- 51 Basic skateboard trickOLLIE
- 55 Root in some speckled chipsTARO
- 57 Adjust to, as a thermostatSETAT
- 59 ___ Clan, iconic hip-hop group of the 1990sWUTOKEEFFENG
- 61 Catches onGETSWISMIRO
- 63 Painting stolen from 53-AcrossDEGAS
- 65 Some partners in lesbian couplesKAHLOEMS
- 67 Franz who composed “The Merry Widow”LEHAR
- 69 Mapped out againREPLOTTEDALI
- 71 DeceptionFLAM
- 72 Shankar at WoodstockRAVI
- 73 Minnesota congresswoman IlhanOMAR
- 74 Acme’s antonymNADIR
- 76 Plunder, archaicallyREAVE
- 78 Online trackerCOOKIE
- 79 Old-fashioned trinket shop vendorsTOYMEN
- 80 TwitchSPASTITIAN
- 83 Think aloudMUSE
- 85 Bergen’s dummy MortimerSNERD
- 89 IdentifiesPEGS
- 91 “Half a truth is often a ___”: Benjamin FranklinGREATLIE
- 94 Painting stolen from 77-AcrossOKEEFFE
- 96 AbandonsDITCHES
- 100 Places of refugeOASES
- 102 Xerox : copy machine :: ___ : kitchen wrapSARAN
- 103 Most boringDRIEST
- 104 Lines at the theater?DIALOG
- 105 Corporate departmentSALES
- 106 Culmination of many a “Law & Order” episodeTRIAL
- 107 DesensitizesNUMBS
- 110 Painting stolen from 118-AcrossDALI
- 112 It might be held during vacationMAIL
- 113 Comedian Johnson of “Laugh-In”ARTE
- 115 Big inits. in fuel additivesSTP
- 119 From Jan. 1 until nowYTD
- 120 Male turkeyTOM
- 121 Actress de Armas of “Knives Out”ANA
- 122 With 9-Down, legendary GiantMEL
- 123 A nursing one has snapsBRA
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In terms of the ridiculousness of the grid, gotta be the worst puzzle, well, in the history of puzzles. Really???
Dumbest puzzle I’ve EVER seen
I’ve been doing NY TIMES Sunday puzzles for half a century
What is wrong with you Joel?
I gotta admit, this puzzle sucked. While I have never been a fan of placing multiple letters or even words into a singular box, but when you put a whole word and it only fits either across or down, well, then it shows that the creativity of the writer was not very good. I can give you a bunch of jumbled letters and words that mean nothing, does not mean that I am fit to create puzzles for a national syndication.