New York Times, Wednesday, December 4, 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| ___ rally | PEP |
| ___ wrench | ALLEN |
| Actress Winger | DEBRA |
| Ambient musician Brian | ENO |
| Animal known to crack shells with rocks | OTTER |
| Anthem contraction | OER |
| Appliance company acquired by Raytheon in 1965 | AMANA |
| As you can tell from these few examples, Bings are better than maraschinos | CHERRYPICKING |
| Ask ___ Landers | ANN |
| Big displays at natural history museums, informally | TREXES |
| Birthstone that shares a first letter with its month | OPAL |
| Boss of the Oompa-Loompas | WONKA |
| Breezy | AIRY |
| Campus in Troy, N.Y. | RPI |
| Choice in orange juice | PULP |
| Cigarette ingredient | TAR |
| College app attachment | ESSAY |
| College app attachment, informally | REC |
| Cut the lawn | MOW |
| Czech capital | PRAGUE |
| Defeat | TOP |
| Edible fungi | MORELS |
| Elvis's middle name | ARON |
| Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium | ASHE |
| Equatorial Guinea is its least populous member, for short | OPEC |
| Even a little bit | ANY |
| Expanding the bleachers isn't enough. We need to relocate the whole stadium | MOVINGGOALPOSTS |
| Extinct relative of an ostrich | MOA |
| Fancy fur | MINK |
| Gives weapons to | ARMS |
| Goods for sale | WARES |
| Grand Ole ___ | OPRY |
| Group concerned with things that are NSFW? | OSHA |
| Grp. whose alphabet starts Alfa, Bravo, Charlie ... | NATO |
| H5N1, by another name | BIRDFLU |
| Has too much, for short | ODS |
| Head in a classic Hasbro toy | POTATO |
| Henson who created the Muppets | JIM |
| Home of Machu Picchu | PERU |
| How Odysseus traveled | AFAR |
| Ideology | ISM |
| If we let our kids go sledding, what's next? Extreme skiing? : SLIPPERYSLOPE | SLIPPERYSLOPE |
| Joking remarks | JESTS |
| Jr. and sr. | YRS |
| Land between Uganda and Burundi | RWANDA |
| Leave the launchpad | BLASTOFF |
| Light side | YANG |
| Like Brie vis-a-vis Gruyère cheese | SOFTER |
| Like meadows | GRASSY |
| Long-running fashion magazine | ELLE |
| Mah-jongg pieces | TILES |
| Major home-improvement chain founder | LOWE |
| Metaphor for a segmented market | PIE |
| Middle name of Sean Lennon | ONO |
| Milk source | UDDER |
| Nolo contendere, e.g. | PLEA |
| Nonstop | ONEND |
| Ooze : SEEP | SEEP |
| Part of a show that may say "Previously on ..." | INTRO |
| Poem that begins "Once upon a midnight dreary" | THERAVEN |
| Scarecrow thinks the only thing one needs is a brain. Not so! | STRAWMANFALLACY |
| Show that asked "Who shot J.R.?" | DALLAS |
| Skating feat | AXEL |
| Sleep disrupter, in a fairy tale | PEA |
| Snoops (around) | NOSES |
| Solemn agreement | PACT |
| Step on it! | SOLE |
| Tampa Bay players, familiarly | BUCS |
| Things you can pay YouTube to avoid | ADS |
| Tibetan monks | LAMAS |
| Type | ILK |
| University of Maine's home | ORONO |
| View from behind the Lincoln Memorial | POTOMAC |
| What'd I tell you? | SEE |
| Where the Marx Brothers famously spent a night | OPERA |
| Young fellow | LAD |
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