Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday December 22, 2020.
‘I’ll pass’ – NAH
‘Let’s be ___ about this’ – ADULTS
A flat one is best to skip – STONE
Affectionate nickname for the ‘Father of the Symphony’ – PAPAHAYDN
Aged – OLD
Arnaz of ‘I Love Lucy’ – DESI
Auto takebacks, for short – REPOS
Bar ‘where everybody knows your name’ – CHEERS
Beats by a whisker – EDGES
Caper – ANTIC
Cause for a blessing – ACHOO
Center of rotation – AXIS
Chops down – HEWS
Church recess – APSE
Colorist – DYER
Comforting mental state – HAPPYPLACE
Corporate V.I.P – CEO
Dingbats – YOYOS
Dr. Zhivago’s love – LARA
Dunkable cookie – OREO
Either part of a yin-yang symbol, e.g – HALF
Equine animal, in rural dialect – HOSS
Face With Tears of Joy, for one – EMOJI
Fake eyelash, in slang – FALSIE
Field of mathematics pioneered by John von Neumann – GAMETHEORY
Golfer’s challenge – TRAP
Greek tourist destination – CORFU
Hawaii’s state bird – NENE
Heating fuel – OIL
Heating unit – THERM
Heaven – SHANGRILA
Hogs – SWINE
Houston ballplayer – ASTRO
Ice skating maneuver – AXEL
Italian name of six popes – PAOLO
Join at the altar – WED
Keanu Reeves’s role in ‘The Matrix’ – NEO
Kind of computer port, in brief – USB
Kind of energy – SOLAR
Kotb of ‘Today’ – HODA
Like a soldier who might be court-martialed – AWOL
Lively for one’s age – SPRY
Manages to gather, as cash – SCRAPESUP
Mindless – INANE
Nickname for Grandma – NANA
One of two in the McDonald’s logo – ARCH
Org. whose members may be fore-warned? – PGA
Paris’s ___ de la Cité – ILE
Part of a coding conditional – ELSE
Part of a squash court – WALL
Peepers – EYES
Pen tip – NIB
Perez whose film debut was in ‘Do the Right Thing’ – ROSIE
Plains dwelling – TEPEE
Pleasantly – INAGOODWAY
Pottery fragment – SHARD
Projecting rim of a metal beam – FLANGE
Protection for vampire hunters – CROSS
Rapture – SHEERBLISS
Realm of marvels – WONDERLAND
Research findings that can’t be reproduced, say – BADSCIENCE
Sign before Virgo – LEO
Sign up for more – RENEW
Some SiriusXM workers, for short – DJS
Something a wedge often leaves exposed – TOE
Steadfastly maintained, as one’s beliefs – HELDTO
Take a risk when taking a polygraph test – LIE
Take steps (into) – WADE
Uncle ___ – SAM
Unspecified quantity – ANY
Unwritten exam – ORAL
Volume from Horace – ODES
Whom 39-Down wants, in a classic poster – YOU
With this puzzle’s central black squares, ecstasy – CLOUD
Word with cash or holy – COW
___ Island (part of Brooklyn that isn’t an island) – CONEY
