NY Times Crossword 21 Dec 18, Friday

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Across

Number	Clues	Answers
1	Striped sea predators	TIGER SHARKS
12	Whirlpool site	TUB
15	Shot	INOCULATION
16	Not you specifically	ONE
17	Entertainment for a long ride, perhaps	BOOKS ON TAPE
18	Honoree on the third Friday of Sept.	MIA
19	Business ___	END
20	Fountain fare	SODAS
21	Expressionist painter James	ENSOR
23	Sends anew	RESHIPS
25	Arugula and escarole	GREENS
26	When the French Open starts	MAY
27	One way to ride	BAREBACK
29	Use, as a mattress	LIE ON
32	Having zero interest, say	BORED
33	Steve of rock guitar fame	VAI
34	“Look at me, ___ helpless …” (opening to “Misty”)	I’M AS
35	Flock	LAITY
36	Alpine capital	BERN
37	Exclamations of exasperation	OYS
38	Premonishes	WARNS
39	“Where ___ fail, music speaks”: Hans Christian Andersen	WORDS
40	Making a mark of a sort	NOTCHING
42	Album fill, informally	PIX
43	Relief	SUCCOR
44	“CSI” prop	BODY BAG
48	“Yuck!”	GROSS!
49	Greeting in Britain	HULLO
51	Ahead of, poetically	ERE
52	Org. with a serpent in its logo	AMA
53	1987 children’s best seller	WHERE’S WALDO?
56	Some grad students, for short	TAS
57	Person depicted on the Alabama state quarter	HELEN KELLER
58	Denizen of Fangorn Forest	ENT
59	Repeated phrase in the chorus of a classic folk ballad	OH MY DARLING

Down

Number	Clues	Answers
1	River near the Pantheon	TIBER
2	See 55-Down	… -IN-ONE
3	Stock	GOODS
4	Johann ___, 16th-century defender of Catholicism	ECK
5	Dressing choice	RUSSIAN
6	Title girl in a 1965 #1 hit	SLOOPY
7	They operate around the clock	HANDS
8	Encouraging start?	ATTA …
9	Shore indentations	RIAS
10	Keystone enforcer	KOP
11	Displayed derision	SNEERED
12	Hall-of-Fame pitcher who once struck out 10 consecutive batters	TOM SEAVER
13	Labor party member’s holding?	UNION CARD
14	Hides in a cabin, perhaps	BEARSKINS
22	Mo. neighbor	NEB
24	Coverage options, briefly	HMOS
25	Overcast, in Britain	GREY
27	Comics sound	BOING!
28	They may be dark or fine	ARTS
29	Film distribution company for “The Hunger Games”	LIONSGATE
30	Declaration from a volunteer	I’M YOUR MAN
31	Locale of many a red-eye destination	EAST COAST
32	Traditionally red structure	BARN
35	Retreat	LAIR
36	Squarish	BOXY
38	Elite group	WHO’S WHO
39	Mr. Rochester in “Jane Eyre,” e.g.	WIDOWER
41	Mails a dupe	CCS
42	Warszawa’s land	POLSKA
44	Harmonize	BLEND
45	Casus ___ (action justifying a war)	BELLI
46	“As You Like It” forest	ARDEN
47	Captain von Trapp’s given name	GEORG
49	Bridge position	HELM
50	Manhattan Project scientist Harold ___	UREY
54	Bit of derisive laughter	HEH
55	With 2-Down, multipurpose	ALL …