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Below are New York Times December 19, 2018 Crossword Answers. We have changed the way we posting answers and solutions for clues; instead of opening them in a new page we are revealing answers and solutions in the same page. This is the simplest way for you to find faster answers. As you see in the left side are crossword clues and in the right side are crossword answers.
Author: Seth A. Abel
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
| Hit hard | SLUG |
| Beats it | SPLITS |
| Org. with the Wizards and Warriors | NBA |
| Prefix meaning “wine” | OENO |
| Pub spigot | ALETAP |
| Path of a blooper | ARC |
| Rating for many a sitcom | TVPG |
| Ahab’s inspiration? | SEAAIR |
| Give a whuppin’ | TAN |
| *Acts phony | SYCOPHANT |
| Chopin piece | ETUDE |
| Sweat units | BEADS |
| Beehive contents | HAIR |
| Carl who wrote “Contact” | SAGAN |
| “WTF With Marc Maron,” for one | PODCAST |
| Industry kingpin | CZAR |
| 2002 animated film with a woolly mammoth | ICEAGE |
| Warm, action-oriented sort, they say | LEO |
| Part of S O S, in popular usage | OUR |
| Each asterisked clue vis-à-vis its answer | ANAGRAM |
| Little trickster | IMP |
| Scepter’s go-with | ORB |
| Like an evangelical Christian | REBORN |
| Phrase on a yard sale tag | ASIS |
| Kitchen gadgets for mixing | BEATERS |
| Unable to sit still | ANTSY |
| Mother that might have a beard | GOAT |
| Fast-food utensil | SPORK |
| 2000s teen drama set in California | THEOC |
| *Hint: hotel | THEHILTON |
| Sharpshooter’s asset | AIM |
| Kevin ___, investor on TV’s “Shark Tank” | OLEARY |
| As a result | ERGO |
| Rx watchdog | FDA |
| Sweetums | DEARIE |
| Alaska, before 1959: Abbr. | TERR |
| Start of many CB radio codes | TEN |
| Stands in a studio | EASELS |
| “So it may ___” | SEEM |
Down
| Ones always tossing things back? | SOTS |
| Impose, as a tax | LEVY |
| Potentially offensive, in brief | UNPC |
| Relative of a discotheque | GOGOBAR |
| One of the Obama daughters | SASHA |
| Implore | PLEAD |
| Slants | LEANS |
| “Let’s leave ___ that” | ITAT |
| Mai ___ | TAI |
| Order from a police officer | SPREADEM |
| *A trails nut | NATURALIST |
| Thin fastener | BRAD |
| Target of an astringent | ACNE |
| “The tongue of the mind,” per Cervantes | PEN |
| Little jerk | TIC |
| Paul of “Crocodile Dundee” | HOGAN |
| Cartoon uncle of Scrappy-Doo, informally | SCOOB |
| Bright blue | AZURE |
| *Bag manager | GARBAGEMAN |
| Catherine who married Henry VIII | PARR |
| Big rigs | SEMIS |
| Young slave girl in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” | TOPSY |
| Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table | INERT |
| They measure miles in meters | CABS |
| “I” strain? | EGO |
| One of seven for New York City | AREACODE |
| Common wear for female tennis players | ANKLETS |
| Besides | TOO |
| Shapiro of NPR | ARI |
| Social media button | SHARE |
| Danger | PERIL |
| “Absolutely!” | OHYES |
| President who later served as chief justice | TAFT |
| Cry to guests at a surprise party | HIDE |
| Twinings products | TEAS |
| One leaving in the spring? | TREE |
| Brutish sort | OGRE |
| Average guy? | NORM |
| Pasture | LEA |