New York Times Tuesday Dec 8 2020 Crossword Solutions

 New York Times - Dec 8 2020 Tuesday Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Really?'	ISIT
'___ relax' ('Breathe')	TRYTO
9-to-5 activity	WORK
Accustom to difficulty	INURE
Arena arbiter, informally	REF
Arthur who wrote 'Days of Grace'	ASHE
Big name in kitchen utensils	OXO
Bird whose beak inspired Darwin's theory of evolution	FINCH
Bubbleheaded	DITSY
Cancel	ANNUL
Cards in Monopoly	DEEDS
Complete stranger, slangily	RANDO
Critic's pick, for short	REC
Drunken, in a way	BEERY
Dublin's land	EIRE
Electrical unit	OHM
Exchange	SWAP
Fancy notebook brand	MOLESKINE
Fend (off)	WARD
Flying formations	VEES
Forgo	ESCHEW
Foxlike	WILY
French conductor Boulez	PIERRE
Fuel economy org	EPA
Gare de l'___, Paris railway station	EST
Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in 'The Metamorphosis'	SAMSA
Having no toppings, as a pizza	PLAIN
Hubbub	ADO
In a ___ of trouble	HEAP
In heaven, say	ABOVE
In hell, say	BELOW
In some sense	SOTOSPEAK
Inscribed stone markers	STELAE
It's in the details, they say	DEVIL
Kind of tear for an athlete	ACL
Land, as a plane	ARRIVE
Like a Monday crossword	EASY
Like a Saturday crossword	HARD
Like the year you ring in on January 1	NEW
Like the year you ring out on December 31	OLD
Little lie	FIB
Madison Square Garden team	KNICKS
Meat substitute	TOFU
Method of successive improvement	ITERATION
Not hidden	OVERT
Not rainy	DRY
Obsolescent home movie format	VIDEOTAPE
Off-hours activity	PLAY
One totally unlike another ... or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has?	POLAROPPOSITE
Person in a boardroom, informally	EXEC
Pic picked in a parlor	TAT
Pizza joint in 'Do the Right Thing'	SALS
Pooh's morose friend	EEYORE
Prefix with aggression	MICRO
Put in stitches	SEW
Put the kibosh on	STOP
Rainy	WET
Rips into	HASAT
Rocks, in drinks	ICE
Seasickness, e.g	NAUSEA
Senegal's capital	DAKAR
Shrewd	ASTUTE
Singer/songwriter DiFranco	ANI
Single-serving coffee pod	KCUP
Some belly buttons	INNIES
Some French wines	RHONES
Speedy shark	MAKO
Stephen of 'V for Vendetta'	REA
Taiwanese electronics giant	ACER
Take off, as a plane	DEPART
They loop the Loop	ELS
Things that may be broken when moving?	LEASES
Tourist city in New Mexico's high desert	TAOS
Unpleasant encounter	RUNIN
Upscale hotel facility	SAUNA
Venomous snakes with zigzag patterns on their backs	ADDERS
Web-footed diver	OTTER
Where the sheep is in 'Little Boy Blue'	MEADOW