New York Times, Sunday, December 26, 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 New York Times, Sunday, December 26, 2021 Crossword Answer 

Clues	Answers
___ be an honor!	ITD
___ chance!	NOTA
___ course	PREP
___ favor	POR
___ mater (brain cover)	DURA
___ Trois Petits Cochons (French fable)	LES
___ Wintour, longtime Vogue editor in chief	ANNA
A man has cause for ___ only when he sows and no one reaps: Charles Goodyear	REGRET
Adams of New York City politics	ERIC
Alternative to Dropbox	ICLOUD
Animal house	DEN
Antarctic coordinate	NORTHPOLE
Antelope, say	GETHITCHED
A-number-one	TOP
Appoint	ORDAIN
Approach for directions	GOOGLEMAPS
Avoids	SKIRTS
Baker's Joy alternative	PAM
Be up against	OPPOSE
Beginning stage	GERM
Big name in women's hair and skin care	HERS
Bit of tinder	TWIG
Blouse and broach, perhaps	PUBLICHOUSE
Boo-boo	ERROR
Boo-boo	OWIE
Briefly, e.g.	CHEESE
Bum out	SADDEN
Business news magazine	INC
Calling	NICHE
Catch	NAB, HERE
Catch!	HERE
Considerations for N.C.A.A. eligibility	GPAS
Counterpart of "Thx"	PLS
Demon of Japanese folklore	ONI
Destructive 2021 hurricane	IDA
Devices with Nunchuks	WIIS
Doesn't put it all on one pony	HEDGESABET
Echo, perhaps	APE
Economist/author Emily	OSTER
Ending with invent	IVE
Entertainment with a private audience?	USOTOUR
Exam that once required fingerprint identification, for short	LSAT
Exercise	USE
Famous cryptid, familiarly	NESSIE
First side to vote	YEAS
Focus of modern mining	DATA
For shame!	TUTTUT
Form of nepotism, symbolically	SCHOOLTIES
Form thoughts	IDEATE
G.I. ___	TRACT
Geek Squad members, e.g.	ITPROS
Good thing to be inE	TUNE
Gradually fix something ... or what to do to understand this puzzle's italicized clues?	WORKOUTTHEBUGS
Great Lakes natives	ERIES
Had the opportunity to, casually	COULDA
Haddock relative	COD
Herd member	EWE
I can thrill you more than any ___ could ever dare try ("Thriller" lyric)	GHOUL
I'm about to tell you something shocking :	SITDOWN
Intimates	GETSAT
It has many beet and beef options	TRUEFALSETEST
It usually works in corners	STAPLER
Java activity	CODING
John Wayne, by birth	IOWAN
Kind of bean	FAVA
Letters on dreidels	NUNS
Letters that complete this word: _P_ROPRIA_E	APT
Like autumn air	BRISK
Like most dorms nowadays	COED
Lip or cheek	SASS
Lost	ATSEA
Malice, more formally	MOTHER
Match	PAIR
Member of the inn crowd?	GUEST
Member of the modern work force	ROBOT
New York City transport stopping at Kennedy Airport	ATRAIN
Nickname for the French Alexandre	SACHA
No longer squeaky (one hopes!)	OILED
Not be able to stand	ABHOR
Nouveau-Mexique, e.g.	ETAT
Number of sides on a sign reading "ALTO"	OCHO
One hanging around Queen Elizabeth?	PEARL
One might be put through the wringer	MOP
One wearing chapstick, perhaps	HORSEBACKRIDER
Onetime collaborator with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre	EAZYE
Parable or allegory	TALE
Pecan or peach : TREE	TREE
People of the Southwest	APACHE
Person helping with a delivery	OBGYN
Pimple lookalikes	STYES
Place for boarding	KENNEL
Place, as ceramic tiles	INSET
Ploy	RUSE
Poker variety similar to Texas hold 'em	OMAHA
Politico-turned-TV host	ALSHARPTON
Pop fly	SOFTDRINK
Prefix with thermal	GEO
Product from un ave	HUEVO
Put over the moon	SEND
Record speeds, for short	RPMS
Relative of a club, for short	BLT
Sarge's boss	LOOIE
Sauce	BOOZE
Saves for later, in a way	TIVOS
Sch. where a live bear used to take the field during football games	UCLA
Screw up	BOTCH
Seeks a favor, say	ASKS
Slugging stat	RBI
Snaps	PICS
Snowpiercer airer	TNT
Some family babysitters	NANAS
Some sports tournaments	OPENS
Sounds heard in 93-Across	AAHS
Space	ROOM
Sport at the Special Olympics	BOCCE
Sporting a certain natural style	AFROED
Spring locales	SPAS
Squeezes (out)	EKES
Supreme Egyptian god	AMENRA
Surround, as with light	ENHALO
Suvari of "American Beauty"	MENA
Taiwanese electronics giant	ACER
Taj Mahal's home	AGRA
Takes by force	WRESTS
Texter's qualifier	IMO
The Glass Bead Game author, 1943	HESSE
The Venetian way?	CANAL
There might be a catch with this	MITT
They can be graphic	TEES
Tickled	SPEARHEADED
Tortoise's challenge to the hare	RACEME
War and peace, in "War and Peace"	MAINTHEMES
Wet bar?	SOAP
What's used to catch some waves	ANTENNA
Who ran against George Washington for president	NOONE
Wishy-washy response	IMIGHT
With it, in old slang	HEP
Word before film and after clip	ART
Word with story or sister	SOB
Working hard	ATIT
You can count on them	ABACI
Folklore villain	HAG