New York Times - Dec 24 2017

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Clues Answers
'Brava!' elicitor ARIA
'Fanfare for the Common Man' composer COPLAND
'Hey ___' (1963 #1 hit) PAULA
'In your dreams!' NOPE
'Just a ___!' SEC
'Just kidding!' NOT
'Really!' NOLIE
'___ God' (psalm words) OMY
'___ welcome!' YOURE
1990s tennis great Huber ANKE
A, in Austria EINE
A-listers STARS
Actress Audrey of 'Amélie' TAUTOU
Airer of 'Christmas in Rockefeller Center' NBC
Align SYNC
Alternative to J.F.K LGA
Ancient Greek HELLENE
Animal on Scotland's coat of arms UNICORN
Avoid a bogey, barely SAVEPAR
Base supporting a statue PLINTH
Beginning to do well? NEER
Body check? OGLE
Bounds along LOPES
Boy in 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' LINUS
Branded baby carriers SNUGLIS
Bunks in barracks COTS
California's Big ___ SUR
Called from the cote BLEATED
Capital whose name ends in its state's postal code ALBANY
Carpenter's aid LATHE
Chemistry exam? ASSAY
Chip away at ERODE
Christmas ___ TREE
Clear NET
College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa COE
Colorado tributary GILA
Country singer Crystal GAYLE
Cousin of an alpaca VICUNA
Cow poke? PROD
Crew member COX
Decorates brilliantly EMBLAZONS
Deliverer of Christmas packages SANTA
Descartes's conclusion IAM
Description of rustic life IDYL
Didn't hedge one's bets TOOKASIDE
Digitally endorse ESIGN
Divan SOFA
Downsize? CROP
Drain opening HOLE
Durham sch UNH
Elevator choice FLOOR
Feature depicted in the upper left of this puzzle SHINYNOSE
First name at Woodstock JIMI
Fiscal year part: Abbr QTR
Friend ALLY
Functioning robotically ONAUTO
Games of chance LOTTOS
Games org IOC
Give a ring? PROPOSE
Hair straighteners RELAXERS
Hallmark.com suggestion ECARD
Hatmaker MILLINER
Having streaks STRIPY
Heists ROBBERIES
Hypotheticals IFS
Importune BESEECH
Infantry members, briefly GIS
It moves a cursor back LEFTKEY
It's read from a scroll TORAH
Kind of cabinet LIQUOR
Clues Answers
Kind of skirt MAXI
Large column of smoke PLUME
Les ___, 'WKRP in Cincinnati' news director NESSMAN
Letters on some Navy carriers USS
Licorice-flavored brew ANISETEA
Like van Gogh, in later life ONEEARED
Mahershala ___, Oscar winner for 'Moonlight' ALI
Male that might be in a rut? ELK
Mama of song CASS
Mobile home: Abbr ALA
Neighbor of a bishop: Abbr KNT
Nicholas, e.g SAINT
Notably nonunionized workers ELVES
One of a dozen good things? GRADEAEGG
One of many in a Swiss Army knife TOOL
One of the record industry's former Big Four EMI
One of the Wayans brothers DAMON
Oodles ALOT
Opposite of dep ARR
Pitch EIGHTYSIX
Plot device in 'The Shining' that has significance when spelled backward RRUM
Political org. since 1854 GOP
Prince, e.g HEIR
Prison part YARD
Punxsutawney prognosticator PHIL
Range grp NRA
Relative of a birch ALDER
Repetitive bit of computer code DOLOOP
Restaurant chain founded by the Raffel brothers (hence the name) ARBYS
Result of a sack on third and long, maybe PUNT
Roofing material TAR
Sanctuary OASIS
Screwy CRAZY
See 51-Down REINDEEROFALL
See 78-Across SCOTT
Shout of approval OLE
Singer with a #1 hit about 123-Across GENEAUTRY
Skin art, informally INK
Sleigh bell sounds JINGLES
Some Carnaval performances SAMBAS
Sorts, as chicks SEXES
Souped-up cars HOTRODS
Speedway brand STP
Spotted SEEN
Starting point for an annual flight NORTHPOLE
Stymies IMPEDES
Symbol of the National Audubon Society EGRET
Symbols on 10 state flags EAGLES
Tears to smithereens SHRS
Telephotos, e.g IMAGES
Terminate AXE
Terminated CEASED
They might be thrown around in a rodeo LASSOES
Three ___ Men WISE
Tombstone marshals EARPS
Turns briefly? REVS
Vulcan mind ___ MELD
W.W. II ordeal at Leningrad SIEGE
Want ad abbr EEO
West Indies native CARIB
Whiz kids PRODIGIES
Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A RUDOLPH
Wine: Prefix OENO
With 53-Down, 123-Across, in song THEMOSTFAMOUS
With 80-Across, one of TV's Property Brothers DREW
Written history ANNALS
Yule sound? LONGU
___ City (Baghdad suburb) SADR
___ Father Christmas OLD
___ guerre NOMDE