NY Times Crossword 23 Dec 23, Saturday

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Across

Clues	Answers
Modern-day scrapbooks, of a sort	PINTEREST BOARDS
Common cybersecurity measure	EMAIL ENCRYPTION
Successfully strike a delicate balance	THREAD THE NEEDLE
Home of the Kingdom of Dahomey, today	BENIN
Balanced	EVEN
Like a proposal in Congress that has zero chance of passing, in brief	DOA
___ Morgenstern, author of “The Night Circus”	ERIN
Heavyweight wrestlers	SUMOS
Sign … or signature	MARK
Org. that employs Hank on “Breaking Bad”	DEA
Five-time Grammy-winning jazz pianist McCoy ___	TYNER
Something large often stored upside down	CANOE
Does	HINDS
See eye to eye	CONCUR
Auto parts brand owned by GM	AC DELCO
Party leader?	HOSTESS
Special coffee shop offerings	BLENDS
Sandwich made with a telera roll	TORTA
Shiny button material	NACRE
Europe, Asia and America	BANDS
Some vaccine administrators, in brief	RNS
The low, low price of	ONLY
Refuses to keep going	BALKS
Handy trick	HACK
Molecule that can interfere in gene expression	RNA
Member of an elite force	SEAL
Watercolor, clay and others	MEDIA
Academic who works with many different schools, maybe	MARINE BIOLOGIST
Sierra Nevada offering	AMERICAN PALE ALE
Mediocre at best	LESS THAN STELLAR

Down

Clues	Answers
Place to let sleeping dogs lie	PET BED
Arrival announcement	I’M HERE!
Literary domain of Peter the Magnificent and Susan the Gentle	NARNIA
Marketing link	TIE-IN
___ vital (life force, from the French)	ELAN
Fire-engine ___	RED
Hearing monitor, for short	ENT
Rhyming arrangements, e.g.	SCHEMES
Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical “Born a Crime”	TREVOR
Actress Amanda	BYNES
Many a tournament	OPEN
___ and ran	ATE
“Good ___!”	RIDDANCE
Like a dirge	DOLOROUS
Athletic items never purchased individually	SNEAKERS
Aligns	SYNCS
Command after an accidental deletion	UNDO
Kind of ray	MANTA
Piña colada topper	TILDE
Goes for	COSTS
One of two Tudor kings	HENRY
Tangle in an office	CORDS
Not what you’d expect	ABNORMAL
Madiba, for Nelson Mandela	CLAN NAME
States	DECLARES
Loud bird sound	HONK!
Capital on the Gulf of Finland	TALLINN
Words sung on the same notes as “twinkle,” in a different nursery rhyme	BAA BAA
Branching out from the center	RADIAL
Longtime police procedural that ended in 2023, informally	NCIS: LA
Expert with figures?	SKATER
Wood for smoking andouille sausage	BEECH
Philosopher who was a major influence on Marx	HEGEL
Hissy	SNIT
One whose distance may be measured by the yard?	MOLE
Division of the Treasury Dept.	IRS
Black ___	OPS
West Coast news inits.	LAT