NY Times Crossword 23 Dec 18, Sunday

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Across

Number	Clues	Answers
1	English guy	CHAP
5	Partner in indecision with 5-Down	HEM
8	Alternative to pavement	GRAVEL
14	What leads many people to say “Let’s face it”?	MECCA
19	Spanish greeting	HOLA
20	G.I.’s address	APO
21	California’s motto	EUREKA
22	Like a truck descending a steep hill	IN LOW
23	Sources of Manchego cheese	EWES
24	How polka bands get their start?	WITH ONE ACCORDION (from “with one accord”)
27	Org. with an annual Help a Horse Day	ASPCA
29	Big suit	CEO
30	Harvard University Press’s ___ Classical Library	LOEB
31	Hundredths: Abbr.	PCTS
32	Pontiff’s gold treasure?	PAPAL BULLION (from “papal bull”)
37	Performed creditably	DID OK
39	Word with store or sign	DOLLAR
40	Value	ESTEEM
43	Like powwows	TRIBAL
46	Register things	SALES
48	Star bursts	NOVAE
49	Summer hat	PANAMA
50	Enthrones	CROWNS
53	Query about the Freedom Caucus or Berniecrats?	IS THAT A FACTION? (from “Is that a fact?)
56	Noted beauty contest loser	HERA
57	Most remote of the Near Islands	ATTU
59	Irish port, county or bay	SLIGO
60	“Shame!”	TSK!
61	Sushi eel	UNAGI
63	Improvised	RIFFED
67	Some refuges	DENS
69	Figure in Jewish folklore	GOLEM
70	Like some factories … or, in a different sense, like 90-, 109- and 119-Across (but not 24-, 32- and 53-Across)?	UNIONIZED … UN “ION-IZED”)
73	Potentially unhelpful answer to “Who’s there?”	IT’S ME?
77	Speed	RACE
79	The 21st Amendment, e.g.	REPEAL
80	Biblical spy	CALEB
81	Wonder	AWE
84	Dutch cheese	GOUDA
87	Pas sans	AVEC
89	Awestruck	GAGA
90	Nickname for a hard-to-please girl?	MISS IMPOSSIBLE (from “Mission: Impossible”)
95	Room to maneuver	LEEWAY
97	Certifiable, so to speak	INSANE
98	Bygone office position	STENO
99	Unctuousness	SMARM
101	White part of pearly whites	ENAMEL
102	Offshore sight, maybe	OIL RIG
104	Vexes	ANNOYS
107	Arabic name that sounds like a polite affirmative	YASIR
109	Data maintained by competitive dentists?	FILLING STATS (from “filling stations”)
112	Envelope abbr.	ATTN
114	That’s right!	EAST
117	Italian article	UNA
118	Intentionally lost	THREW
119	Speakers’ searches for just the right words?	RHETORICAL QUESTS (from “rhetorical questions”)
125	Halliburton of the Halliburton Company	ERLE
126	Buckwheat cereal	KASHA
127	Restroom sign	LADIES
128	Antidiscriminatory abbr.	EEO
129	Iago or Othello	ROLE
130	It notably has two bridges	SITAR
131	Bleachers	STANDS
132	“x” in 5x = x2 ÷ 2	TEN
133	Tit for tat?	SWAP

Down

Number	Clues	Answers
1	Shoddy	CHEAP
2	“Alas!”	HOW SAD!
3	War-torn Syrian city	ALEPPO
4	Philosophical argument for belief in God	PASCAL’S WAGER
5	Partner in indecision with 5-Across	HAW
6	Connoisseur of food and drink	EPICURE
7	One might be found near a cloverleaf	MOTEL
8	Modern prefix with tag	GEO-
9	Series	RUN
10	Word with you but not me	ARE
11	Main ingredient in Wiener schnitzel	VEAL
12	Kitchenware brand	EKCO
13	Like corsets	LACED
14	Russian “peace”	MIR
15	Terminus	ENDPOINT
16	Online enticement	CLICKBAIT
17	Codger	COOT
18	Botanical bristles	AWNS
25	Evidence left by a moth	HOLE
26	Dead reckoning?	OBIT PAGE
28	___ Alcorn, creator of Pong	ALLAN
33	Wood for a raft	BALSA
34	“And who ___?”	ISN’T
35	Texter’s transition	OTOH
36	St. Petersburg’s river	NEVA
38	Unduly harsh	DRACONIC
41	Has a 42-Down	EATS
42	See 41-Down	MEAL
44	___ Lee, singer with the 2011 #1 album “Mission Bell”	AMOS
45	All limbs	LANK
47	Audit a class, say	SIT IN
50	Move slowly (along)	CHUG
51	City near the Sierras	RENO
52	What comes before “B”?	ORAL-
54	Islamic mystic	SUFI
55	Tinker (with)	FIDDLE
58	Align	TRUE UP
62	Doesn’t really see	IMAGINES
64	Gift tag word	FOR
65	Lansing-to-Flint dir.	ENE
66	Brief swim	DIP
68	Protective sorts in showbiz	STAGE MOTHERS
71	Fervor	ZEAL
72	Some runoff sites	EAVES
74	BBQ side	SLAW
75	What can go before watt	MEGA-
76	Rare success story from the dot-com bubble	EBAY
78	More pulchritudinous	COMELIER
81	Beau’s girl	AMIE
82	___-Dixie (grocery chain)	WINN
83	It’s not as simple as a), b), c)	ESSAY TEST
85	“Go ahead!”	DO SO!
86	Italian wine city	ASTI
88	Trolley sound	CLANG
91	Bee, e.g.	SAMANTHA
92	Introvert’s focus	SELF
93	Cross inscription	INRI
94	Seethe	BOIL
96	Max at the MoMA	ERNST
100	Sea cow	MANATEE
103	Need for a model	GLUE
105	Flowering herb also known as devil’s nettle	YARROW
106	Woman’s name that means “star”	STELLA
108	Banisters	RAILS
110	Not loose, as a diamond	INSET
111	4-0 series, say	SWEEP
112	Some refuges	ARKS
113	Like panang curry	THAI
115	“Git!”	SCAT!
116	“I did it!”	TADA!
120	It fits in a lock	OAR
121	Architect Maya	LIN
122	Mathematician’s 116-Down	QED
123	Inits. before many state names	USS
124	Jesus Christ, with “the”	SON