New York Times - December 31 2017 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answers

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Dec 31 2017 Sunday 

Clues	Answers
'Dukes'	FISTS
'Give me ___'	AHINT
'King Lear' role	EDGAR
'March comes in like ___ ...'	ALION
'Nessun dorma,' for one	ARIA
'Pow!'	WHAM
'Quién ___?'	SABE
'Reckon so'	IGUESS
'Savvy?'	GETME
'Sh,' 'th' or 'ou'	PHONEME
'The Last Days of Pompeii' heroine	IONE
'What's Opera, Doc?' antagonist	ELMER
'Wise' sorts	OWLS
1/20 of a ton: Abbr	CWT
1920s-'30s Yankees nickname	THEBABE
1959 Ritchie Valens hit, with 'La'	BAMBA
1974 C.I.A. spoof	SPYS
1st, 2nd, 3rd ... ___	NTH
Action in FanDuel and DraftKings	BETS
Apple app for viewing reading material	IBOOKS
Archaeological treasure trove	TARPIT
Arctic people	INUIT
Article in Der Spiegel	EINE
Artificial silks	RAYONS
Attend without a date	GOSTAG
Attribute to, in a way	BLAMEON
Batch of Brownies?	TROOP
Big name in test prep	KAPLAN
Blade runner?	FAN
Book before Esther: Abbr	NEH
Butting heads	ATODDS
Canon competitor	EPSON
Chap	OLDBOY
Childish retort	AMTOO
Chose to take part	OPTEDIN
Close tightly	SEALUP
Cobbler, at times	SOLER
Colorful quartz	AGATE
Cottonmouth's warning	HISS
Country that Menorca is part of	ESPANA
County in New Mexico or Colorado	OTERO
Couple	CONNECT
Court legend Arthur	ASHE
Cowboy Rogers	ROY
D.C.-based media giant	NPR
Dadaist Jean	ARP
Deceive	LIETO
December 31: Abbr	NYE
Drift	GIST
Eagerly accept	LAPUP
Eldest member of an organization	DEAN
Falco of 'The Sopranos'	EDIE
Feature of Devonshire cream	CLOT
Fig. checked during re-tire-ment?	PSI
Film director ___ C. Kenton	ERLE
Flag	PENNANT
Forever and ever	EONS
Giant	GOLIATH
Godfather after being double-crossed?	MADCAPO
Good hunting skill	STEALTH
Grammy winner ___ Elliott	MISSY
Green	UNRIPE
Gross	YUCKY
Grow feathers	FLEDGE
Hagar the Horrible's hound	SNERT
Harass incessantly	PLAGUE
Have	OWN
Heeds	OBEYS
Hip-hop's Shakur	TUPAC
Historic Mesopotamian city	EDESSA
Hook's right hand	SMEE
If you have it, you might know what this answer is without reading the clue	ESP
Indiana's state flower	PEONY
Kind of alphabet	NATO
Kyrgyz city	OSH
Lamborghini rival	FERRARI
Lamp polisher's surprise?	GENIE
Last Stuart queen	ANNE
Legends in the automotive world	ACURAS
Legitimate business practices	FAIRTRADE
Like some turns	HAIRPIN
Like the French sky	BLEU
Like the three men of the 'Rub-a-dub-dub' nursery rhyme	INATUB
List of things said by Siri?	CELLRECITAL
Makes a meal of	DINESON
Merchandise: Abbr	GDS
Middle of a simile	ASAN
Moo goo ___ pan	GAI
Motley	RAGTAG
Much of a sports recap	STATS
Nasser's successor as Egypt's leader	SADAT
Neighbor of the talus	TIBIA
Neighbors of Egyptians	SUDANESE
Neuron's ends?	ENS
New Deal org	CCC
Nincompoop	TWIT
Not just focused	OBSESSED
One having trouble with basic arithmetic?	SUMWRESTLER
Opposite side	ENEMY
Panhandle state: Abbr	IDA
Photog's bagful?	CAMGEAR
Polish, e.g	SLAVIC
Pure	CHASTE
Puts forth	POSITS
Quenched	SLAKED
Result of a French powdered drink shortage?	LASTTANGINPARIS
Result of a haymaker, maybe	NOSEBLEED
Scott of 'Happy Days'	BAIO
Secures at sea	BATTENS
Short rows	SPATS
Sights at charging stations	TESLAS
Softhead	SAP
Some 1960s radicals	YIPPIES
Some Guinness Book records	FIRSTS
Some loose dancing?	FLOPPYDISCO
Stars	SUNS
Statement made while crossing the fingers, maybe	FIB
Struggling sci-fi writer's plea for recognition?	INEEDAHUGO
Targets in 'Men in Black,' informally	ETS
The Eagles' '___ Eyes'	LYIN
Thick and green	LUSH
Thingamajig	ITEM
Three-foot 1980s sitcom character	ALF
Torn	RENT
Treat that gives a glowing complexion?	URANIUMOREO
V.I.P. list	WHOSWHO
Wand material in the Harry Potter books	ELM
Was beaten by	FELLTO
Washington, D.C.?	POLGROUNDS
Weeklong Irish vacation?	SEVENDAYSINMAYO
What an infielder might field a ball on	ONEHOP
What if, informally	SPOSE
Wimbledon surface	GRASS
Work as a branch manager?	LOP
___ bin Laden	OSAMA
___ Conference	TED
___ performance	ENCORE
___ position	LOTUS