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December 17, 2015 NYT Clues Answers

NYT Crossword and Answers - December 17, 2015

Welcome to NYT Puzzle and answers. The New York Times Crossword is a most popular puzzles. Here are the clues and answers for today puzzle:

Across:

  • 1. Like a banjo: TWANGY
  • 7. Annul: ABROGATE
  • 15. Make fast: SECURE
  • 16. Flexible: NONRIGID
  • 17. 1813 novel made into a 2005 film: PRIDEANDPREJUDICE
  • 19. Successor to Churchill: EDEN
  • 20. Exclamations of exasperation: OYS
  • 21. Drives: GOADS
  • 22. More than half of all batteries sold: AAS
  • 24. Moriarty, to Holmes: FOE
  • 25. Five-time Emmy-winning actress: CANDICEBERGEN
  • 31. A monster may have a big one: MAW
  • 34. Places that may have beeches and benches: ARBORS
  • 35. Something to dispense with: URN
  • 36. Word that can be followed by any of several colors: CODE
  • 37. Outdoor feast: LUAU
  • 38. Piece of the N.R.A.?: Abbr.: ASSOC
  • 40. One making a lot of turns on the road?: AXLE
  • 41. "Oh yeah ... uh-huh": IBET
  • 42. ___-di-dah: LAH
  • 43. Made out: ESPIED
  • 45. Word repeated at the start of every "Star Wars" film: FAR
  • 46. Racy books named after a Victorian garment: BODICERIPPERS
  • 48. Biathlon need: AIM
  • 49. Five fifths: ONE
  • 50. Perform lousily: STINK
  • 53. Calendar keeper, for short: PDA
  • 55. A head: EACH
  • 59. Alcoholic drink so named because of its color, not its content: LONGISLANDICEDTEA
  • 63. Boiling: INCENSED
  • 64. Trouble, in Yiddish: TSURIS
  • 65. Bygone royals: TSARINAS
  • 66. Blanche DuBois's sister: STELLA

Down:

  • 1. It's about 5 mL: TSP
  • 2. Lived: WERE
  • 3. Biting: ACID
  • 4. In the altogether: NUDE
  • 5. Certain foot soldier: GRENADIER
  • 6. House support?: YEA
  • 7. Roddick who won the 2003 U.S. Open: ANDY
  • 8. Conks: BOPS
  • 9. Time off, in mil. slang: RNR
  • 10. Where Nike is headquartered: OREGON
  • 11. Boy toy?: GIJOE
  • 12. Quito quaff: AGUA
  • 13. Cleaned (up): TIDIED
  • 14. Things going down the drain?: EDDIES
  • 18. Oenophile's concern: NOSE
  • 23. Son of David: ABSALOM
  • 24. Enclose: FENCEIN
  • 25. 10-Down neighbor: Abbr.: CALIF
  • 26. Caribbean vacation destination: ARUBA
  • 27. Hawk or Hornet: NBAER
  • 28. Go extinct: DIEOUT
  • 29. Indian-born writer of the 1981 Booker Prize: RUSHDIE
  • 30. Miracle-___: GRO
  • 31. Chutzpah: MOXIE
  • 32. Chicago's ___ Planetarium: ADLER
  • 33. Bed intruders?: WEEDS
  • 36. Dogpatch creator: CAPP
  • 39. Beatles title girl: SADIE
  • 44. First to break the tape: SPEEDIEST
  • 46. Beach attraction: BIKINI
  • 47. Multihued horse: ROAN
  • 48. Inflame: ANGER
  • 50. Pupil of a snake's eye, often: SLIT
  • 51. Plenty: TONS
  • 52. Worshiper of Inti: INCA
  • 53. Answer to a judge: PLEA
  • 54. Pops: DADS
  • 56. In unison, in a way: ADUE
  • 57. PC key: CTRL
  • 58. Greeting with a salute: HEIL
  • 60. W-4 entry: Abbr.: SSN
  • 61. Topics of many self-help books: DIETS
  • 62. "___ whole ...": ASA

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