New York Times, Sunday, December 5, 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 New York Times, Sunday, December 5, 2021 Crossword Answer 

Clues	Answers
... AMBITION AMBITION AMBITION ...	RECURRINGDREAMS
... and to ___ good night!	ALLA
... CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION ...	CONTINUITYOFCARE
... COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL ...	ADINFINITUM
... FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR ...	NEVERENDINGSTORY
... GRIZZLY GRIZZLY GRIZZLY ...	BEARSREPEATING
... PROPOSAL PROPOSAL PROPOSAL ...	PERPETUALMOTION
... STAIRS STAIRS STAIRS ...	NONSTOPFLIGHTS
___ cavity (where the lungs are located)	PLEURAL
___ di Pietro, artist better known as Fra Angelico	GUIDO
___ Minor	URSA
___-yo	FRO
Actor Spall of "Prometheus"	RAFE
Adventurous kids in a 1985 film	GOONIES
Astrology or palmistry	PSEUDOSCIENCE
Awful-smelling	FETID
Badger	NAG
Before, poetically	ERE
Bishops, e.g.	PRELATES
Brit's "How shocking!"	ISAY
Brouhaha	ADO
Bull airer	CBS
Card-matching game	SET
Celebrity gossip site	TMZ
Chemical suffixes	INES
Choice words	ORS
Christmas fir	BALSAM
Click ___ (artificial increasers of website hits)	FARMS
Clique	INGROUP
Company with a Page Program	NBC
Demure	COY
Dennis the Menace's appropriately named dog	RUFF
Destination for Birthright trips: Abbr.	ISR
Exam with a 35-minute timed essay, in brief	LSAT
Execs: Abbr.	MGMT
Eyeteeth	CANINES
Family member inaptly found in "ladies only"	SON
First responder, for short	EMT
Get hitched	WED
Give me a break, would you?!	GEEZ
Give one's take	OPINE
Goddess of the dawn	EOS
Grandma, affectionately	NANA
Grinder	HERO
Grinds away	TOILS
Hawaiian taro dish	POI
High school subj.	ENG
Home to the Burj Khalifa, for short	UAE
How a zombie might spread the infection	BITE
Inconveniences	IMPOSESON
Investor behind the scenes	SILENTPARTNER
It's got some miles on it	USEDCAR
James who sang "I Sing the Blues"	ETTA
Kind of jar	MASON
Kind of milk	Kind of milk : SOY
Lament	RUE
Lead-in to ask or suggest	DAREI
Let's Stay Together singer, 1971	ALGREEN
Lew ___, portrayer of Dr. Kildare	AYRES
Like New Jerseyans vis-à-vis New Yorkers	FEWER
Like some apparel, in song	GAY
Like the color of honey	GOLDEN
Likely loser	UNDERDOG
Literally, "I bow to you"	NAMASTE
Maker of the classic video game Frogger	SEGA
Male etiquette, as described by Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother"	BROCODE
Many an informant employed by Sherlock Holmes	URCHIN
Messy sort	PIG
Mimic	APE
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Shannon	SHARPE
Napoleon's famed war hors	MARENGO
Not friendly	ICY
Notable chameleon feature	TONGUE
One gifted with the "inner eye" : SEER	SEER
Op. ___ (footnote abbr.)	CIT
Opposite of down: Abbr.	ACR
Opposite of FF	REW
Org. involved in the Scopes Monkey Trial	ACLU
Org. that hires cryptanalysts	NSA
Ostrich relatives	EMUS
Out	ASLEEP
Pablo Neruda work	ODE
Pac-12 athlete	UTE
Palindromic feminine name	ANNA
Part of a contrac	CLAUSE
Part of the eye	LENS
Percussion instrument of African origin	MARIMBA
Pet lovers' org.	ASPCA
Peter ou	ABATE
Philosopher who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature"	HUME
Piercing spot	EAR
Please, I can handle this	LETME
Pocketful in ring-around-the-rosy	POSIES
Popular Toyotas	CAMRYS
Prefix with binary	NON
Propel, as a shell	OAR
Put ___ on (limit)	ACAP
R.S.V.P. option	YES
Rapper dissed by Jay-Z in "Takeover" : NAS	NAS
Rapper with more than 20 Grammys	KANYEWEST
Rapscallion	IMP
Religion that emphasizes seva, or "selfless service"	SIKHISM
Reps	AGENTS
Roy Lichtenstein's genre	POPART
Samurai's sword	KATANA
Sandiego not usually found in San Diego	CARMEN
Savory Chinese snack	TEAEGG
See 20-Across	NET
Set down	LAID
Shout	CRY
Singer India.___	ARIE
Singular	LONE
Slight problem	SNAG
Smartphone predecessors, for short	PDAS
Some diaper changers	DADS
Someone's in the kitchen with her, in song	DINAH
Something necessary for gain, they say	PAIN
Stark who was crowned Queen of the North on "Game of Thrones"	SANSA
Steve with eight N.B.A. championship rings	KERR
Symphony in Black artist	ERTE
Syracuse-to-Albany dir.	ESE
Ta-ta	CIAO
The "grand slam" of showbiz awards, in brief	EGOT
They're explained by Newton's law of universal gravitation	TIDES
They're found below the "To" field	CCS
Together	ENMASSE
Tuna, on a sushi menu	AHI
Vehicle company with a market value over $1 trillion	TESLA
Way up or way down	STEPS
What 10s represent	IDEALS
What many lifeguards have	TANS
What seven did to nine, in a joke	ATE
What some kings and queens dress in	DRAG
When doubled, boring result in the Premier League	NIL
Who is "too small to make a difference," per a Greta Thunberg book title	NOONE
Win for a 10-Down	UPSET
With 116-Down, artificial intelligence system that mimics the human brain	NEUR
Word commonly following the Oxford comma	AND
Word on a candy heart	LUV
Word-of-mouth	ORAL
Young 'uns	TOTS
Yukon automaker	GMC