New York Times Tuesday December 1 2020 Crossword Solutions

 New York Times, Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Columbia, the ___ of the Ocean'	GEM
'Famous' cookie maker	AMOS
'Hey, over here!'	PSST
'Sign me up!'	IMIN
'The Bartered Bride' and 'The Marriage of Figaro'	OPERAS
*Devastating event in a real estate bust	HOMEFORECLOSURE
*Highly stressful situations, metaphorically	Pressurecookers
*Like a guesstimate, by nature	IMPRECISE
*Many a Silicon Valley business	SOFTWARECOMPANY
*Question suggesting 'That just about sums things up'	WHATMORECANISAY
Actress Anderson	PAMELA
Africa's most populous city (21+ million)	LAGOS
Alliance formed in April 1949	NATO
April 1 target	FOOL
Automotive brand with an oval logo	AMOCO
Automotive brand with an oval logo	STP
Battle reminders	SCARS
Biased against seniors	AGEIST
Bust's counterpart	BOOM
California ___ (state flag words)	REPUBLIC
Classic 1980s space warfare video game	GALAGA
Community sports facility ... or a hint to the answers to the five starred clues	RECCENTER
Counters with beads	ABACI
Dandy	NIFTY
Desires	YENS
Doctors making deliveries, in brief	OBS
Elements in a comic's repertoire	GAGS
Elevator, in England	LIFT
Eminent	NOTED
Flair	ELAN
Foe in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'	GIANT
Formed for a particular purpose	ADHOC
Get ready	PREP
Grannies	NANAS
Half the pieces in a chess set	PAWNS
Hatcher of 'Desperate Housewives'	TERI
Heisman winner Torretta	GINO
Info from a spy	INTEL
Like the Rose Bowl, with 92,542 spectators	FULL
Meeting at a no-tell motel, say	TRYST
Mouth, slangily	TRAP
October birthstone	OPAL
Ollie's partner in old comedy	STAN
Passing remarks?	OBITS
Person in a lawsuit	LITIGANT
Potential tire trouble	WEAR
Prefix with gender	CIS
Put a stop to	EMBAR
Put on the payroll	HIRE
Quakers, for one	SECT
Records in jackets, in brief	LPS
Replace with	CHANGETO
Royal spouses	CONSORTS
Singapore setting	ASIA
Singapore ___	SLING
Some essential workers, for short	MDS
Some HDTVs	RCAS
South American palm cultivated for its fruit	ACAI
Sportscaster Andrews	ERIN
Sporty Mazda model	MIATA
Squad	GANG
Supporting votes	AYES
Sushi restaurant soup	MISO
Sweet's counterpart	SOUR
Televangelist Joel	OSTEEN
Tennis score favoring the server	ADIN
Things baseball uniforms and toy pistols have	CAPS
Timbuktu's country	MALI
Tire need	AIR
Toll hwy	TPK
Tony-winning musical based on Fellini's '8 1/2'	NINE
Tummy soother	BICARB
Workplace-inspecting org	OSHA
Wrestler in a mawashi	SUMO