NYT Crossword Answers 12/30/24

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Across Clues

• 1 BrainySMART
• 6 WackyZANY
• 10 Desktop computer that might run Sonoma or SequoiaIMAC
• 14 Choir memberTENOR
• 15 Writer WieselELIE
• 16 ForbiddenNOGO
• 17 Waiter’s imperative after bringing foodENJOY
• 18 Flower that reflects yellow when held under one’s chinBUTTERCUP
• 20 It might have a twist or holePLOT
• 21 What a sleeve coversARM
• 22 “Don’t worry about me!”IMOKAY
• 23 Primitive timerHOURGLASS
• 26 Surface for doing exercisesMAT
• 27 GlobesORBS
• 28 Going out romanticallyONADATE
• 32 #1 palBESTIE
• 35 Language suffixESE
• 36 FatherSIRE
• 37 Music genre prefixALT
• 38 N.F.L. all-star gamePROBOWL
• 41 Texter’s reaction to a jokeLOL
• 42 Some beersALES
• 44 Bathroom fixtureTUB
• 45 Clinks a glass and gives a speech toTOASTS
• 47 Indian pastries with savory fillingsSAMOSAS
• 49 Obnoxious person, informallyTOOL
• 50 “All you need is love and a ___” (old saying)CAT
• 51 Place for policy wonksTHINKTANK
• 56 Huge to-dosSCENES
• 59 “Sounds good!”YES
• 60 Norse god of war and deathODIN
• 61 Make logical sense … or what the ends of 18-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across doHOLDWATER
• 63 Grammarian’s concernUSAGE
• 64 TroublesILLS
• 65 Number of planets before Pluto was demotedNINE
• 66 Food item that might come with loxBAGEL
• 67 El ___, Tex.PASO
• 68 Exhausted, metaphoricallyDEAD
• 69 Put forth, as effortEXERT

Vertical Clues

• 1 Basketball star CurrySTEPH
• 2 ___ Park, location of Edison’s first major laboratoryMENLO
• 3 Type of pearANJOU
• 4 Plant affliction that’s below groundROOTROT
• 5 AttemptTRY
• 6 Creatures that are actually black with white stripesZEBRAS
• 7 What grads becomeALUMS
• 8 Tiny complaintNIT
• 9 Abominable SnowmanYETI
• 10 AdvancesINROADS
• 11 Shirley Temple and Virgin Bloody Mary, for twoMOCKTAILS
• 12 H2O, in MexicoAGUA
• 13 “I understand you”COPY
• 19 Character described by Austen as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”EMMA
• 21 Canadian province that’s home to the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage SiteALBERTA
• 24 Grasp tightlyGRIP
• 25 MehSOSO
• 29 Units of forceNEWTONS
• 30 Gait faster than a walk but slower than a canterTROT
• 31 Snakelike fishEELS
• 32 Sheep soundsBAAS
• 33 “Enchanted” girl in a Gail Carson Levine bookELLA
• 34 Biomedical building blocksSTEMCELLS
• 35 Recede, as the tideEBB
• 39 Remove from officeOUST
• 40 Cry made while pointingLOOK
• 43 No-goodnikSOANDSO
• 46 Jazz combo instrumentALTOSAX
• 48 Dish served from a crockpotSTEW
• 49 In stacks, like a wedding cakeTIERED
• 52 Evil hench-animal in “The Lion King”HYENA
• 53 “The early bird gets the worm,” for oneADAGE
• 54 Landlocked African countryNIGER
• 55 Prepared to proposeKNELT
• 56 Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern parlanceSHIP
• 57 Pepsi or CokeCOLA
• 58 Contents of a 23-AcrossSAND
• 62 “How to ___ a ___” (common tutorial topic)TIE
• 63 Purple yam common in Filipino cookingUBE