Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Sunday December 20, 2020.
‘And, touching ___, make blessed my rude hand’: Romeo – HERS
‘Holy cow!’ – MYGOSH
‘I’m here to help’ – USEME
‘Lost ___ is never found again’: Benjamin Franklin – TIME
‘My luck has to change at some point’ – IMDUE
‘South Pacific’ hero – EMILE
‘That was Zen, this is ___’ (philosophy pun) – TAO
‘The Tempest’ king – ALONSO
1904 World’s Fair city: Abbr – STL
2014 film directed by Ava DuVernay – SELMA
A halogen-containing salt – IODATE
Actress Taylor of ‘Mystic Pizza’ – LILI
Address with dots – URL
Alley ___ – OOP
Appointment that may be hard to change – SETDATE
Ballpark figures – UMPS
Be less than ambitious – AIMLOW
Biblical ending – ETH
Big name in small planes – CESSNA
Brit. military award – DSO
By the end of 1996, one million of this toy was sold in a shopping frenzy – TICKLEMEELMO
Calf-eteria? – LEA
Chichi – ARTY
City in north-central Florida – OCALA
Classic comics teen with good manners – ETTAKETT
Cleanliness fixation, e.g., in brief – OCD
Combined – INONE
Contented sigh – AAH
Counters – REBUTS
Currency of Thailand – BAHT
Curve – ARC
Day to play with new toys – CHRISTMAS
Dr. Fauci’s agcy – NIH
Driver around Hollywood – ADAM
Feed lines to – CUE
Final authority – SAYSO
First toy to be advertised on TV – MRPOTATOHEAD
Flag carrier with an alphabetically ordered name – KLM
Flint is a form of it – SILICA
Food ___ (Thanksgiving feeling) – COMA
Future J.D.’s hurdle – LSAT
Game that got a big boost when Johnny Carson demonstrated it with Eva Gabor on ‘The Tonight Show’ – TWISTER
Game with red and yellow cards – UNO
Give up (on) – PUNT
Glenn Miller classic – INTHEMOOD
Goes after – HASAT
Goes off – ERRS
Golf great Sam – SNEAD
Grannies – NANAS
Harlem attraction, with ‘the’ – APOLLO
Inaccurate information – BADDATA
Indiana governor Holcomb – ERIC
Investment firm T. ___ Price – ROWE
Its box once read ‘A sweet little game for sweet little folks’ – CANDYLAND
Kiss – BUSS
Lasting impression – SCAR
Legal assistant, briefly – PARA
Like subway walls, often – TILED
Little bits – TADS
Longest-serving Israeli prime minister, familiarly – BIBI
Loyally following – TRUETO
Major talent grp. representing athletes and entertainers – CAA
Mild, light-colored cigar – CLARO
Minus – SANS
Moonfish – OPAH
Most common day to call in sick: Abbr – MON
Natl. Humor Month – APR
Not just available online – ATSTORES
Not on solid ground, say – ASEA
One whistling while working in the Garden? – REF
One who hasn’t turned pro? – ANTI
Open hostilities – HOTWAR
Operatic villains, often – BASSI
Org. with boosters – NASA
Outpourings – SPATES
Overplays, with ‘up’ – HAMS
Performed a Latin ballroom dance – SAMBAED
Phillies div – NLEAST
Photo finishes – SEPIAS
Physical, e.g – EXAM
Piece in the game go – STONE
Place for torn-off wrapping paper – TRASH
Poli ___ – SCI
Politician parodied by Dana Carvey on 1990s ‘S.N.L.’ – ROSSPEROT
Premiere arrival – LIMO
Promoting peace – IRENIC
Purchases on 14 de febrero – ROSAS
Puzzle toy solved in a record 3.47 seconds in 2018 – RUBIKSCUBE
Reason for glasses – MYOPIA
Rhodes of the Rhodes scholarship – CECIL
Rigging pole – SPAR
Right away – STAT
Sacking site in A.D. 410 – ROME
Schlepped – TOTED
See the sights – TOUR
She debuted on March 9, 1959, in a black-and-white striped swimsuit – BARBIEDOLL
Shopping site with a ‘Toys’ section – EBAY
Shot from a doc – HYPO
Showy shrub – AZALEA
Sierra ___ – LEONE
Sight from the Sicilian town of Taormina – ETNA
Simian world – APEDOM
Singer with a self-titled #1 album in 2002 – ASHANTI
Small snare drums – TABORS
Smart – SASSY
Something to shoot for – IDEAL
Soon – ANYDAY
Spring event – THAW
St. Patrick’s home – EIRE
Statement of resistance – OHMSLAW
Straddling – ATOP
Strong adhesive – EPOXY
Strong criticism – FLAK
Subj. for some aspiring bilinguals – ESL
Suffix suggested by the wiggling of one’s hand – ISH
Swimsuit part – BRA
Textile worker – DYER
The beginning, in an idiom – SCRATCH
They can elevate art – EASELS
Things found in wandering souls? – AEIOU
Tik___ (app) – TOK
Took care of a tabby, say – CATSAT
Totaled – RANTO
Toy that astronauts brought to space to secure tools in zero gravity – SILLYPUTTY
Toy that sold more cars in America in 1991 than the Honda Accord or Ford Taurus – COZYCOUPE
Toy that was derived from a wallpaper cleaner – PLAYDOH
Toy that was originally called ‘L’Écran Magique’ (‘The Magic Screen’) – ETCHASKETCH
Toy with 18 spoken phrases, including ‘I love you’ and ‘May I have a cookie?’ – CHATTYCATHY
Trim – ADORN
U.S. city just south of Timpanogos Cave National Monument – OREM
U.S./U.K. divider: Abbr – ATL
Umpteen – MANY
Virtual pet simulation game that won an Ig Nobel prize for its Japanese creators – TAMAGOTCHI
William ___, founder of Investor’s Business Daily – ONEIL
With some downside – ATARISK
Writer Arthur Conan ___ – DOYLE
[Grrr!] – IMSOMAD
___ area, part of the brain linked to speech production – BROCAS
___ treatment – SPA
___-Locka, Fla – OPA
