New York Times - Sunday December 1 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solution

New York Times - Dec 1 2019 Sunday

Clues	Answers
'He's like ___ to me'	ASON
'Little House on the Prairie' girl	LAURA
'Star Wars' nickname	ANI
'To repeat ...'	ASISAID
... It abuts water on only one of its four sides	RHODEISLAND
... It usually comes from sheep	CATGUT
... It was predominantly German	HOLYROMANEMPIRE
... It's a legume	PEANUT
... It's a rodent native to the Andes	GUINEAPIG
... It's a woodwind from Central Europe	ENGLISHHORN
... It's an American name for a German game	CHINESECHECKERS
... It's an ellipse	STPETERSSQUARE
... They're lousy places to sleep	RESTROOMS
... They're of Indian origin	ARABICNUMERALS
A rancher might pull one over a calf	BOOT
AARPers	SRS
Abhors	LOATHES
Aerobatic maneuver	TAILSPIN
Alternative indication	ORNOT
Apt move when dancing the salsa?	DIP
Atoms	BITS
Attach, as a ribbon	TIEON
Bagged leaves?	TEA
Big name in the soup aisle	KNORR
Bird growing up Down Under	EMU
Cathy's comics cry	ACK
Charismatic	DYNAMIC
Compares (to)	LIKENS
Competitor	RIVAL
Cool red giants	SSTARS
Cop ___	APLEA
Cornerstone abbr	ESTAB
Currently	ATPRESENT
Dash dial	TACH
Dashed	RAN
Defibrillator pros	EMTS
Drift ice pieces	FLOES
Eponym of a London insurer	LLOYD
Eruption particulates	ASH
Exam for many sophs. and jrs	PSAT
Expunges	DELETES
First, last, male or female name	LEE
Fish that's 69-Down reversed	EEL
Flanged structural support	IBEAM
Footprint maker	SOLE
Frankish finish	ENDE
Fuel mileage, for example	RATIO
Gambling game akin to bingo	KENO
Gilded chest in the Bible	ARK
Give ___ on the wrist	ASLAP
Heir extension?	ESS
High-grade U.S.M.C. enlistee	NCO
Highly decorated	BAROQUE
Highway haulers	SEMIS
Hindu tradition that's two men's names in reverse	TANTRA
Historic discovery	RELIC
Home of the Huskies, informally	UCONN
Home to the Sundance Film Festival	UTAH
Honey	BABE
Huffington of journalism	ARIANNA
Impersonator's skill	APING
In ___ development	UTERO
Inker's artwork	TAT
It starts in Mar	DST
It's often performed by 105-Across	CPR
Italian 'darling'	CARA
Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning 'A Visit From the Goon Squad'	EGAN
Kitt who played Catwoman on TV	EARTHA
La-la lead-in	OOH
Lambaste	TEARINTO
Letters on an incomplete syllabus	TBA
Like bicycle chains	OILED
Like drumheads	TAUT
Like par 2 holes among all holes in miniature golf	EASIEST
Lima lady: Abbr	SRA
Make amends?	EDIT
Make litter-proof?	NEUTER
Meeting expectations	UPTOPAR
Miffed	UPSET
Mo. when the N.F.L., N.B.A., N.H.L. and M.L.B. all have games	OCT
More overbearing	BOSSIER
Move offshore, say	EBB
Not just any	THE
Notwithstanding	INSPITEOF
Of all time	EVER
Onetime home of the Vikings and the Twins	METRODOME
Overruns	INFESTS
Parking lot souvenir	DENT
Part of a gym set	REP
Phrase before a date	USEBY
Pixelatedness, for short	RES
Popular microwave snack	POPCORN
Possible result of late payments, informally	REPO
Pretentious	ARTY
Preventive medicine, slangily	VAX
Printing hues	CYANS
Punjab's capital	LAHORE
Rapper Tone ___	LOC
Regard	ESTEEM
Russian novelist Maxim	GORKI
Salt's hip-hop counterpart	PEPA
Sci-fi character depicted as a glowing red dot	HAL
Second most popular Vietnamese surname (after Nguyen)	TRAN
Septennial symptom?	ITCH
Serious	STAID
Short story	VIGNETTE
Silty spot	DELTA
Slices of life: Abbr	YRS
Some rectangular tablets	IPADS
Sounds of enlightenment	AHAS
Source of Andrew Carnegie's fortune	STEEL
Spoons, e.g	NESTLES
Subdued	TAME
Suddenly stand at attention	SNAPTO
Survive	ENDURE
Tart dessert	LIMEPIE
They're compacter than compacts	MINIS
Things around a cloverleaf	EXITSIGNS
Throws in one's two cents	OPINES
Tithing portion	TENTH
Trite	OLDHAT
U.S. viticulture region	NAPA
Umami enhancer, for short	MSG
Undo, legislatively	REPEAL
Unidentified person in a suit	ROE
Unmatched sock, informally	ORPHAN
Van Gogh masterwork	IRISES
Verb on a candy heart	LUV
Vintage-looking shade	SEPIA
Vouch for	ATTESTTO
Welcoming whiff	AROMA
West end?	ERN
What avengers get	EVEN
What diet products often contain	LESSFAT
When doubled, a Yale football song	BOOLA
Wholehearted endorsement	AMEN
Wind-up toys?	KITES
Yang's opposite	YIN
___ Lanka	SRI
___ the Orange (Syracuse mascot)	OTTO