New York Times Thursday December 17 2020 Crossword Solutions

 New York Times, Thursday, December 17, 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
-: Abbr	NEG
A lot	OFTEN
Actress Chaplin	OONA
America ___, star of TV's 'Ugly Betty'	FERRERA
Ballet basic	PLIE
Basic idea	GIST
Biblical verb	DOTH
Big name in in-flight internet	GOGO
Birthday ___	WISH
Cooling-off period?	ICEAGE
Copland ballet with a hoedown	RODEO
Credit line?	ROLE
Cry of dismay in 5-Across	ACH
Epithet for a judge	HONORABLE
Exclamations of surprise	OHS
Extinct flightless bird	MOA
First name of this puzzle's dedicatee, born December 1770	LUDWIG
Flavor enhancer	MSG
Flavor: Sp	SABOR
Formal 'yes'	IDO
Greek goddess of the hearth	HESTIA
Hook's henchman	SMEE
Hunting store purchase	AMMO
Ill. neighbor	WIS
Important piece in échecs	ROI
Instrument featured in 36-Across	OBOE
It takes people out	EXIT
Items that are hard to throw away?	BOOMERANGS
Just OK	SOSO
Key to this puzzle's theme?	CMINOR
Landed	ALIT
Language in which a nutty person might be told 'Yer bum's oot the windae'	SCOTS
Lead-in to puncture	ACU
Leave behind	DITCH
Like an unused air mattress	DEFLATED
Longtime star of F.C. Barcelona	MESSI
Losing tic-tac-toe row	OXO
Lover of Radames, in opera	AIDA
Money-collecting org	IRS
Most foul	SMELLIEST
Muscly	BUFF
Mythical realm accessible only by the rainbow bridge Bifrost	ASGARD
Needing some kneading, say	ACHY
One of the Kennedys	TED
Oscar winner Marlee	MATLIN
Prefix with Cuban	AFRO
Pudding flavor	FIG
Puttering around?	MINIGOLF
Reef predator	EEL
Remedy	ANTIDOTE
Rent	LEASE
Response to 'Grazie!'	PREGO
Rough write-up	DRAFT
Rum ___ Tugger ('Cats' cat)	TUM
Servings with sweet-and-sour sauce	EGGROLLS
Shortcoming	FLAW
Sight on Disney World's Expedition Everest ride	YETI
Singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey ___	RAE
Small and pointy-eared, perhaps	ELFIN
Something editable using CRISPR technology	GENE
Stamp holder	ALBUM
Sticks together	CLOTS
Strongly advocate	URGE
Summer Triangle star	VEGA
Swiss Alp next to Lake Lucerne	Rigi
That's gnus to me!	WILDEBEEST
Tribe that fought the Iroquois	ERIE
Troublemaker of 1-Down	LOKI
Up	AWAKE
What 'exaggerated' is sometimes misspelled with	ONEG
What 49-Down became in later life	DEAF
What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent	FATE
Word before rich or talk	IDLE
Word included to prevent libel, say	ALLEGED
Work suggested by this puzzle's circled squares	BEETHOVENSFIFTH
___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term 'rock 'n' roll'	ALAN
___ Nadu (Indian state)	TAMIL
___ position	FETAL