New York Times Crossword Answers December 12, 2022

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Author: Anthony J. Caruso and Zhouqin Burnikel
Editor: Will Shortz

Across

Cozy home in the woods CABIN
Cooking vessels for omelets PANS
Ask for, as a cigarette, informally BUM
Putting to work USING
Box office dud FLOP
Lasso material ROPE
*High-energy person, metaphorically BALLOFFIRE
Means justifiers, it's said ENDS
Nothing doing? IDLE
"Who's there?" response ITSME
Corp. honchos CEOS
Melon with a yellow rind CASABA
Strategic maneuver TACTIC
Ending with Oktober or gab FEST
Rap culture HIPHOP
Obsolescent music purchases, in brief CDS
Low-pH liquids ACIDS
Liberty Mutual alternative GEICO
Single, double or triple, in baseball HIT
Dog command … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the four starred clues GOFETCH
Org. for Penguins and Ducks NHL
Popular sans-serif typeface ARIAL
Geological rift FAULT
"You've got mail!" I.S.P. AOL
Official order DECREE
Christmas song NOEL
Fate KISMET
Major blunders SNAFUS
Fliers that may consume thousands of insects in an hour BATS
Pimiento-stuffed treat OLIVE
___ fide BONA
Soothing succulent ALOE
*Documentation leading to proof PAPERTRAIL
Hieroglyphic bird IBIS
R&B great Redding OTIS
Tries to deice, as winter roads SALTS
Bit of skin ink, informally TAT
Cooped (up) PENT
Totally lost ATSEA

Down

Shaped like dice CUBIC
Carne ___ (taco filling) ASADA
Football team in Buffalo BILLS
Blooming with foliage INLEAF
Oxfam or Mercy Corps, e.g., in brief NGO
[Gone … just like that!] PFFT
Like red-carpet celebrities ALIST
___ Rae (Sally Field title role) NORMA
Oration SPEECH
*Some fine porcelain BONECHINA
Beehive or French twist UPDO
Kitchen description after Spaghetti Sunday MESS
A cook might have a secret one RECIPE
Ludicrous failure FIASCO
Snoopy and Gromit, for two BEAGLES
Turn clockwise, as a screw TIGHTEN
Petty kerfuffle TIFF
Eight: Sp. OCHO
Opinion survey POLL
Country east of Niger CHAD
In ___ straits DIRE
*"Don't quit now!" STICKTOIT
Narc's org. DEA
Leave astounded STUN
Pitcher sent in to seal a win CLOSER
Crops up ARISES
Panic! at the Disco genre EMOPOP
One navigating a maze, maybe LABRAT
Give joy ELATE
Basketball rebound play TIPIN
Newborn horses FOALS
Join forces UNITE
It can be verde or roja SALSA
Worm on a hook, e.g. BAIT
"Sin City" co-star Jessica ALBA
Waistcoat VEST
Airport grp. TSA