NY Times Crossword Answers 17 Dec 2017, Sunday

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Across

Clues	Answers
1	Neighbor of Sudan	CHAD
5	Queen in the “Star Wars” movies	AMIDALA
12	Basics	ABCS
16	Things that people like to have ripped?	ABS
19	First sentence of a news story	LEDE
20	Party animal	REVELER
21	Comedian who was a regular on “The Steve Allen Show”	LOUIS NYE
23	Sources of lean meat	EMUS
24	Comparatively strong, like some French wine?	STIFF AS A BORDEAUX (stiff as a board – oh)
26	Grime	FILTH
28	“Yo!”	HEY!
29	Went by	ELAPSED
30	Fearful	TREPID
32	1998 De Niro thriller	RONIN
34	Highway noise barriers	BERMS
38	One who’s in it but doesn’t win it	ALSO-RAN
40	Egyptian leader obsessed with his appearance?	VANITY PHARAOH (“Vanity Fair” – oh)
43	Certain Lincoln Center soprano?	NEW YORK MEZZO (New York Mets – oh)
45	It may pop on a plane	EAR
46	Dietary std.	RDA
47	China’s Chiang ___-shek	KAI
48	Yes or no follower	… SIREE
49	Light on one’s feet	SPRY
51	Submissive	MEEK
52	Fleet	ARMADA
56	“Totally awesome!”	RAD!
57	Bit of food … or feud?	BEEF
58	Part of a house	GABLE
59	Peach ___	MELBA
61	___-frutti	TUTTI
62	Buttonhole, e.g.	SLIT
63	Shooting craps while waiting for one’s train?	ROLLING IN THE DEPOT (“Rolling in the Deep” – oh)
67	Actress Hatcher	TERI
68	All skin and bones	GAUNT
69	“I had a dream, which was not all a dream” poet	BYRON
70	George Eliot’s “___ Marner”	SILAS
71	Finely decorated	GILT
72	Antagonist	FOE
74	Much of Mongolia	STEPPE
78	Automaker sold by G.M. in 2017	OPEL
79	Territory	TURF
80	White undercoat	GESSO
82	Broadbrim, e.g.	HAT
83	Inits. for getting around the Loop	CTA
84	Protagonist in David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”	HAL
85	Comment from a cook who cools the cheese sauce before serving?	I REST MY QUESO (I rest my case – oh)
89	Woodwind that’s O.K. to play?	KOSHER PICCOLO (kosher pickle – oh)
93	Something that’s free of charge	NEUTRON
94	Weapon seen on the Kenyan flag	SPEAR
95	Big stinks	REEKS
96	Done, slangily	FINITO
97	Units for binge watchers	SEASONS
100	Actor Patel of “Lion”	DEV
101	“Don’t ___ me”	TEMPT
104	Cupid’s catchphrase?	LOVE IS IN THE ARROW (“Love Is in the Air” – oh)
110	Part	ROLE
111	Attention hog’s cry	LOOK AT ME!
112	Vigilant	ON GUARD
113	“The Dukes of Hazzard” spinoff	ENOS
114	Intimidate	COW
115	One of eight in “The 12 Days of Christmas”	MAID
116	Egg-shaped Hasbro toys introduced in 1971	WEEBLES
117	Certain soft drinks, informally	DEWS

Down

Clues	Answers
1	Score marking	CLEF
2	Powerful engine, for short	HEMI
3	Nighttime Cartoon Network programming block	ADULT SWIM
4	Wipe off the map	DESTROY
5	Start of MGM’s motto	ARS
6	Quaint “I believe”	METHINKS
7	Like Wrigley Field’s walls	IVIED
8	Brave	DEFY
9	Landon who lost in a landslide	ALF
10	Pastoral locale	LEA
11	Big name in 1980s-’90s TV talk	ARSENIO
12	State capital that’s the setting of “Ironweed”	ALBANY
13	Betty ___	BOOP
14	Mean, lowdown sorts	CURS
15	Court conference	SIDEBAR
16	CNN commentator Navarro	ANA
17	The Cougars of the West Coast Conf.	BYU
18	Determination in a prenatal exam	SEX
22	Holiday meal	SEDER
25	Came down	ALIT
27	Long lunch?	HERO
31	It’s to be expected	PAR
32	Leveled	RAZED
33	Eleven: Fr.	ONZE
35	Cheesy dish	RAREBIT
36	Seminal symbol of mass production	MODEL T
37	Lose	SHAKE
38	Paul who sang “Lonely Boy”	ANKA
39	King who said “Nothing will come of nothing”	LEAR
40	Woman’s name that means “truth”	VERA
41	Disloyalty	PERFIDY
42	Loft filler	HAY
44	Director of 1991’s “Mississippi Masala”	MIRA NAIR
49	Genesis brother	SETH
50	Early Beatle	PETE BEST
51	Sam who ran the bar on “Cheers”	MALONE
53	Unconcerned with right and wrong	AMORAL
54	Parts of supermarkets	DELIS
55	With 57-Down, very nearly	ALL …
57	See 55-Down	… BUT
58	Topic at the Kinsey Institute	G-SPOT
60	32-ounce purchase at 7-Eleven	BIG GULP
61	Mining supply	TNT
63	Free	RELEASE
64	Chasm	GULF
65	It decreases a QB’s rating: Abbr.	INT
66	Busy hosp. areas	ERS
67	Best of the best	TIP-TOP
70	Knee-highs, e.g.	SOCKS
72	Doesn’t know for a fact, say	FEELS
73	___ buco	OSSO
75	Secreted signal	PHEROMONE
76	El ___	PASO
77	Cricket rival of Harrow	ETON
79	Material once set afire and put in a catapult	TAR
80	Grasp, informally	GROK
81	Human, typically, diet-wise	OMNIVORE
84	Announcement upon a grand arrival	HERE I AM!
85	Entertainment with camels, maybe	ICE SHOW
86	It sank after W.W. II	YEN
87	Go cold turkey	QUIT
88	Said	UTTERED
90	Goaltender Dominik in the Hockey Hall of Fame	HASEK
91	Wrinkle-free, say	IRONED
92	Lincoln’s place	CENT
96	Wild	FERAL
98	Old movie dog	ASTA
99	___ Valley	SIMI
100	Give a beating	DRUB
102	Go forcefully (through)	PLOW
103	1979 Roman Polanski film	TESS
104	Inc. relative	LLC
105	Win on “Hollywood Squares”	O-O-O
106	“I shall return,” e.g.	VOW
107	Des Moines-to-Dubuque dir.	ENE
108	Add years	AGE
109	Sentence fragments: Abbr.	WDS