New York Times, Sunday, December 15, 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Alas ...' | ITSSAD |
| 'Boo-___!' | YAH |
| 'My ___' | TREAT |
| 'None for me, thanks' | IMCOOL |
| 'Quiet, you!' | SHUSH |
| 'That's odd ...' | HMM |
| 'The pond': Abbr | ATL |
| 'Well, golly!' | GEEWHIZ |
| 'Whither thou ___ ...' | GOEST |
| '___ run!' | GOTTA |
| '___ supuesto!' (Spanish 'Of course!') | POR |
| Abbr. on a keyboard key | ESC |
| Admonishment before Christmas morning | NOPEEKING |
| Agreeable response to a parental order | YESMOM |
| Airer of 'Arrow' and 'iZombie' | THECW |
| Baseball double play, in slang ... or a hint to understanding the 12 Across answers that have circles | TWINKILLING |
| Beats by ___ (audio brand) | DRE |
| Bit in a feedbag | OAT |
| Bit of off-road equipment | MUDTIRE |
| Boatload | TON |
| Bog growths | MOUSSES |
| Boor | OAF |
| Brain, slangily | NOODLE |
| California city whose name translates to 'the table' | LAMESA |
| California's ___ National Forest | SIERRA |
| Can opener | POPTOP |
| Certain bean or horse | PINTO |
| Chits inits | IOU |
| Chow down on, biblically | EATOF |
| Cleaning up the mess, for short? | ONKP |
| Coastal inlet | RIA |
| Company that introduced Etch A Sketch | OHIOART |
| Concise and to the point | PITCHY |
| Contributors to 'the front page of the internet' | REDDITORS |
| Cry just before the birthday guest arrives at a surprise party | HIDE |
| Daily cable show that's covered Hollywood since 1991 | ENEWS |
| Derriere | END |
| Desirous | PITCHY |
| Disgusting, quaintly | UGSOME |
| Doorway | ENTRY |
| Drink with a straw | MALT |
| Dutch banking giant | ING |
| Duties imposed | LEVITES |
| Enclosure for a slush pile, for short | SASE |
| Erupt | SPEW |
| F.D.R.'s last veep | HST |
| Family written about by Margaret Mitchell | OHARAS |
| Fig. watched by some dieters | BMI |
| Finish of three U.S. state names | ANA |
| Flash drive port | USB |
| Florist's cutting | STEM |
| Foe of the Jedi | SITH |
| For now | PROTEAM |
| Fortune 500 category, informally | TECH |
| Founder of the Ottoman Empire | OSMAN |
| Fragrant item in a fireplace | PINELOG |
| Freedom | LICENSE |
| French schoolteacher | MAITRE |
| G.R.E. administrator | ETS |
| Genre akin to goth | EMO |
| George W. Bush's nickname for himself, with 'the' | DECIDER |
| Good thing to find on a boat | SEALEGS |
| Group running a celeb's social media accounts, say | PROTEAM |
| Hatcher of 'Lois & Clark' | TERI |
| Here's the kicker! | TOE |
| Hit 2011 animated movie | RIO |
| Hitting close to home? | STRIPLING |
| Hot under the collar | IRATE |
| Improvement | UPGRADE |
| In the slightest | ATALL |
| India's smallest state | GOA |
| Interval known as 'the devil in music' on account of its unsettling sound | TRITONE |
| It's a start | ONSET |
| Its seeds whirl to the ground | ELM |
| Judea and Sheba, in the Bible | LANDS |
| Juniors, to their fathers | NAMESAKES |
| Keeper of the books? | SHELF |
| Last-minute eBay bidders | SNIPERS |
| Laureate | HONOREE |
| Lawman at the O.K. Corral | EARP |
| Lead-in to long | ERE |
| Levels | TIERS |
| Like a 'mwa-ha-ha' laugh | EVIL |
| Marks out | XES |
| Maximally mannered | NICEST |
| Members of un monastere | FRERES |
| Mischievous titter | HEHE |
| Most sinewy | WIRIEST |
| Muscat native | OMANI |
| Near impossibilities on par-5 holes | ACES |
| One of 24 | KARAT |
| One of Chaucer's pilgrims | REEVE |
| One who fixes flats? | TUNER |
| Orange Sesame Street monster | ZOE |
| Org. that began welcoming girls in 2019 | BSA |
| Pandemonium | MAYHEM |
| Part of a parade float on New Year's Day | ROSEPETAL |
| Party notifications sent with a click | LEVITES |
| Pattern on a barber pole | STRIPLING |
| Picks, with 'for' | OPTS |
| Political figure on whom Snowball is based in 'Animal Farm' | TROTSKY |
| Presidential time | ERA |
| Producer of bills | ATM |
| Provocative poster | TROLL |
| Pusher of green eggs and ham | SAM |
| Relating to theft on the high seas | PIRATIC |
| Retro-cool music purchases | LPS |
| Salsa and guacamole | DIPS |
| Sandwich with an apostrophe in its name | POBOY |
| Seasoning in a yellow-and-blue tin | OLDBAY |
| Send over the moon | ELATE |
| Shade | HUE |
| Some fraternity row letters | XIS |
| Some South Africans | BOXERS |
| Something with many variables to consider | ALGEBRA |
| Takes the plate in place of | BATSFOR |
| Texter's 'ciao' | TTYL |
| The big eau | MER |
| The Jets, but not the Giants | GANG |
| Things students take | NOTES |
| This puzzle's subjects, by another name | THEGEMINI |
| Tingling, in a way | NUMB |
| Title role played by Hilary Swank in a 2009 biopic | AMELIA |
| Tousles, as hair | MOUSSES |
| Tsps. or tbsps | AMTS |
| Warehouse stacks | BOXERS |
| Weather phenomenon whose double lights were said to represent this puzzle's subjects | STELMOSFIRE |
| Welcome, as a guest | SEEIN |
| Wet firecracker, e.g | DUD |
| What amber comes from | RESIN |
| What violence might lead to | RRATING |
| When repeated, 'Cheerio!' | PIP |
| Where Orange County is, in brief | SOCAL |
| Where to set your butts down | ASHTRAY |
| Wiped | ERASED |
| Word before rip or slip | LET |
| Word with coin or ring | TOSS |
| World of Warcraft enemies | ORCS |
| Youngest animal in the Hundred Acre Wood | ROO |
| ___ admin | SYS |
| ___ fly | SAC |
| ___ Speaker | MADAM |
| ___ tai | MAI |
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