Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday December 8, 2020.
‘Really?’ – ISIT
‘___ relax’ (‘Breathe’) – TRYTO
9-to-5 activity – WORK
Accustom to difficulty – INURE
Arena arbiter, informally – REF
Arthur who wrote ‘Days of Grace’ – ASHE
Big name in kitchen utensils – OXO
Bird whose beak inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution – FINCH
Bubbleheaded – DITSY
Cancel – ANNUL
Cards in Monopoly – DEEDS
Complete stranger, slangily – RANDO
Critic’s pick, for short – REC
Drunken, in a way – BEERY
Dublin’s land – EIRE
Electrical unit – OHM
Exchange – SWAP
Fancy notebook brand – MOLESKINE
Fend (off) – WARD
Flying formations – VEES
Forgo – ESCHEW
Foxlike – WILY
French conductor Boulez – PIERRE
Fuel economy org – EPA
Gare de l’___, Paris railway station – EST
Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in ‘The Metamorphosis’ – SAMSA
Having no toppings, as a pizza – PLAIN
Hubbub – ADO
In a ___ of trouble – HEAP
In heaven, say – ABOVE
In hell, say – BELOW
In some sense – SOTOSPEAK
Inscribed stone markers – STELAE
It’s in the details, they say – DEVIL
Kind of tear for an athlete – ACL
Land, as a plane – ARRIVE
Like a Monday crossword – EASY
Like a Saturday crossword – HARD
Like the year you ring in on January 1 – NEW
Like the year you ring out on December 31 – OLD
Little lie – FIB
Madison Square Garden team – KNICKS
Meat substitute – TOFU
Method of successive improvement – ITERATION
Not hidden – OVERT
Not rainy – DRY
Obsolescent home movie format – VIDEOTAPE
Off-hours activity – PLAY
One totally unlike another … or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has? – POLAROPPOSITE
Person in a boardroom, informally – EXEC
Pic picked in a parlor – TAT
Pizza joint in ‘Do the Right Thing’ – SALS
Pooh’s morose friend – EEYORE
Prefix with aggression – MICRO
Put in stitches – SEW
Put the kibosh on – STOP
Rainy – WET
Rips into – HASAT
Rocks, in drinks – ICE
Seasickness, e.g – NAUSEA
Senegal’s capital – DAKAR
Shrewd – ASTUTE
Singer/songwriter DiFranco – ANI
Single-serving coffee pod – KCUP
Some belly buttons – INNIES
Some French wines – RHONES
Speedy shark – MAKO
Stephen of ‘V for Vendetta’ – REA
Taiwanese electronics giant – ACER
Take off, as a plane – DEPART
They loop the Loop – ELS
Things that may be broken when moving? – LEASES
Tourist city in New Mexico’s high desert – TAOS
Unpleasant encounter – RUNIN
Upscale hotel facility – SAUNA
Venomous snakes with zigzag patterns on their backs – ADDERS
Web-footed diver – OTTER
Where the sheep is in ‘Little Boy Blue’ – MEADOW
