New York Times Crossword Answers December 22, 2019

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Author: Laura Taylor Kinnel
Editor: Will Shortz

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TV screen inits. LCD
Steinful ALE
Cut (off) LOP
"Nope" NAW
Lucky strikes? ORES
Massage target SCALP
Capital of Belarus MINSK
Spa amenity ROBE
/x, for x MULTIPLICATIVEINVERSE
Top type BLOUSE
Hay fever irritant RAGWEED
Online payment option ECHECK
Record holder for the most Indianapolis 500 laps led (644) ALUNSER
Lowly workers PEONS
Mythical being depicted in bronze in Copenhagen Harbor MERMAID
Followers of dos RES
Home of the N.C.A.A.'s Rhody the Ram, for short URI
Director DuVernay AVA
Govt. org. often impersonated on scam calls SSA
Picked a card DREW
Abstainers … or the central column's answers vis-à-vis 20-, 39-, 74- and 101-Across, respectively TEETOTALERS
One in a pocketful POSY
Has finished ISDONE
Speed that would enable a 23-minute D.C.-to-L.A. flight MACHSIX
Where fans are often placed on high? ARENAS
Org. whose academy's motto in English is "The sea yields to knowledge" USCG
One who might give you a shot NURSE
Miss GIRL
Food that Marge Simpson once served with "a whisper of MSG" PORKCHOP
Big name in denim LEE
Collected $200, say PASSEDGO
"Te ___" AMO
Former superstore chain selling diapers and strollers BABIESRUS
"Egads!" EEK
Quite a tale SAGA
Spirit BRIO
Charitable offering ALMS
Film character who says "Kiss me as if it were the last time" ILSA
It postulates a space-time fabric THETHEORYOFRELATIVITY
Congressional budget directives EARMARKS
San Francisco's ___ Valley NOE
Radio medium AIRWAVES
Renaissance-themed festival FAIRE
Tears to pieces MAULS
Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard hits simultaneously NOONE
"The Gift of the Magi" author OHENRY
"Seriously?" FORREAL
Gobbles (down) SNARFS
Doze (off) NOD
Mr. Incredible's actual surname PARR
College town of George Washington Carver AMES
Hither's partner YON
"Absolutely!" AMEN
Little Richard hit with "the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded," per Rolling Stone TUTTIFRUTTI
Sea eagle ERNE
Many-time N.H.L. All-Star Jagr JAROMIR
Sheepish OVINE
Fashionable ALAMODE
Nonbinary identity AGENDER
Focus of an egoist's gaze NAVEL
Magazine with annual Women of the Year Awards GLAMOUR
President Ford and others GERALDS
Traditional, if bulky, presents in Santa's bag SLEDS
Opening words? SESAMES

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Super Bowl trophy eponym LOMBARDI
Deep-fried doughy treats CRULLERS
Picked nits DELOUSED
___ tear (athlete's injury) ACL
Thieves' place LAIR
Yosemite attraction ELCAPITAN
Hides one's true nature LIVESALIE
Group with the 2012 chart-topping album "Up All Night," to fans ONED
Ψ PSI
"Why do you ask?" response NOREASON
The 1 in (1,2), in math ABSCISSA
Work times, typically WEEKDAYS
Phaser setting STUN
Admiral Graf ___ (German W.W. II ship) SPEE
Leaf (through) PAGE
Bearing MIEN
One might be taken in protest KNEE
Longtime NPR host Diane REHM
Satellite inhabited continuously since 2000: Abbr. ISS
Complement of turtledoves in a Christmas song TWO
Obsolescent TV companion VCR
Paris's ___ La Fayette RUE
Disfigure MAR
___ sleep REM
Perturb VEX
"The Caine Mutiny" author WOUK
End of some school names, for short TECH
Orbicularis ___ (eyelid-closing muscle) OCULI
"We ___ Kings" THREE
What fools might make of themselves ASSES
"Je ne ___ quoi" SAIS
Joint winner of FIFA's Player of the Century award in 2000 PELE
Top-level foreign policy grp. NSC
Monopoly quartet: Abbr. RRS
Fold GOBROKE
Fuel line GASMAIN
Wallop PASTE
Triple Crown winner OMAHA
Top-ranked professional tennis player for a record 237 consecutive weeks ROGERFEDERER
Ark contents PAIRS
___ fast one PULLA
Labor day setting? DELIVERYROOM
"Beau ___" GESTE
Signs off on OKAYS
"I tell ya!" BOY
Charlotte of "The Facts of Life" RAE
Universal self, in Hinduism ATMAN
Preserves something? BERRY
Houston A.L.'ers STROS
Trump who wrote 2017's "Raising Trump" IVANA
Tiny margin of victory HAIR
When one usually goes through customs ONARRIVAL
Purple pool ball FOUR
Brushed up on RELEARNED
Lucky ticket holder's cry IWON
Famed Chicago steakhouse MORTONS
A couple of Bible books SAMUELS
Completely unrestrained ONAJAG
Tribute HOMAGE
Swollen, as a lip FAT
Drain, as blood LET
Swiss dish FONDUE
Derisive expressions SNEERS
Runs smoothly PURRS
They can't do without does STAGS
Prefix for a polygon with 140° interior angles NONA
Headed for overtime TIED
A short rest, so to speak FIVE
He: Lat. ILLE
Top female baby name of 2014-18 EMMA
Year that Michelangelo's "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" was completed MDL
Things the Energizer bunny may need AAS