Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Thursday December 17, 2020.
-: Abbr – NEG
A lot – OFTEN
Actress Chaplin – OONA
America ___, star of TV’s ‘Ugly Betty’ – FERRERA
Ballet basic – PLIE
Basic idea – GIST
Biblical verb – DOTH
Big name in in-flight internet – GOGO
Birthday ___ – WISH
Cooling-off period? – ICEAGE
Copland ballet with a hoedown – RODEO
Credit line? – ROLE
Cry of dismay in 5-Across – ACH
Epithet for a judge – HONORABLE
Exclamations of surprise – OHS
Extinct flightless bird – MOA
First name of this puzzle’s dedicatee, born December 1770 – LUDWIG
Flavor enhancer – MSG
Flavor: Sp – SABOR
Formal ‘yes’ – IDO
Greek goddess of the hearth – HESTIA
Hook’s henchman – SMEE
Hunting store purchase – AMMO
Ill. neighbor – WIS
Important piece in échecs – ROI
Instrument featured in 36-Across – OBOE
It takes people out – EXIT
Items that are hard to throw away? – BOOMERANGS
Just OK – SOSO
Key to this puzzle’s theme? – CMINOR
Landed – ALIT
Language in which a nutty person might be told ‘Yer bum’s oot the windae’ – SCOTS
Lead-in to puncture – ACU
Leave behind – DITCH
Like an unused air mattress – DEFLATED
Longtime star of F.C. Barcelona – MESSI
Losing tic-tac-toe row – OXO
Lover of Radames, in opera – AIDA
Money-collecting org – IRS
Most foul – SMELLIEST
Muscly – BUFF
Mythical realm accessible only by the rainbow bridge Bifrost – ASGARD
Needing some kneading, say – ACHY
One of the Kennedys – TED
Oscar winner Marlee – MATLIN
Prefix with Cuban – AFRO
Pudding flavor – FIG
Puttering around? – MINIGOLF
Reef predator – EEL
Remedy – ANTIDOTE
Rent – LEASE
Response to ‘Grazie!’ – PREGO
Rough write-up – DRAFT
Rum ___ Tugger (‘Cats’ cat) – TUM
Servings with sweet-and-sour sauce – EGGROLLS
Shortcoming – FLAW
Sight on Disney World’s Expedition Everest ride – YETI
Singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey ___ – RAE
Small and pointy-eared, perhaps – ELFIN
Something editable using CRISPR technology – GENE
Stamp holder – ALBUM
Sticks together – CLOTS
Strongly advocate – URGE
Summer Triangle star – VEGA
Swiss Alp next to Lake Lucerne – Rigi
That’s gnus to me! – WILDEBEEST
Tribe that fought the Iroquois – ERIE
Troublemaker of 1-Down – LOKI
Up – AWAKE
What ‘exaggerated’ is sometimes misspelled with – ONEG
What 49-Down became in later life – DEAF
What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent – FATE
Word before rich or talk – IDLE
Word included to prevent libel, say – ALLEGED
Work suggested by this puzzle’s circled squares – BEETHOVENSFIFTH
___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ – ALAN
___ Nadu (Indian state) – TAMIL
___ position – FETAL
