New York Times - Dec 22 2019

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Clues Answers
'Absolutely!' AMEN
'Beau ___' GESTE
'Egads!' EEK
'I tell ya!' BOY
'Je ne ___ quoi' SAIS
'Nope' NAW
'Seriously?' FORREAL
'Te ___' AMO
'The Caine Mutiny' author WOUK
'The Gift of the Magi' author OHENRY
'We ___ Kings' THREE
'Why do you ask?' response NOREASON
1/x, for x MULTIPLICATIVEINVERSE
1935 Triple Crown winner OMAHA
A couple of Bible books SAMUELS
A short rest, so to speak FIVE
Abstainers ... or the central column's answers vis-à-vis 20-, 39-, 74- and 101-Across, respectively TEETOTALERS
Admiral Graf ___ (German W.W. II ship) SPEE
Ark contents PAIRS
Bearing MIEN
Big name in denim LEE
Brushed up on RELEARNED
Capital of Belarus MINSK
Charitable offering ALMS
Charlotte of 'The Facts of Life' RAE
Collected $200, say PASSEDGO
College town of George Washington Carver AMES
Complement of turtledoves in a Christmas song TWO
Completely unrestrained ONAJAG
Congressional budget directives EARMARKS
Cut (off) LOP
Deep-fried doughy treats CRULLERS
Derisive expressions SNEERS
Director DuVernay AVA
Disfigure MAR
Doze (off) NOD
Drain, as blood LET
End of some school names, for short TECH
Famed Chicago steakhouse MORTONS
Fashionable ALAMODE
Film character who says 'Kiss me as if it were the last time' ILSA
Focus of an egoist's gaze NAVEL
Fold GOBROKE
Followers of dos RES
Food that Marge Simpson once served with 'a whisper of MSG' PORKCHOP
Former superstore chain selling diapers and strollers BABIESRUS
Fuel line GASMAIN
Gobbles (down) SNARFS
Govt. org. often impersonated on scam calls SSA
Group with the 2012 chart-topping album 'Up All Night,' to fans ONED
Has finished ISDONE
Hay fever irritant RAGWEED
He: Lat ILLE
Headed for overtime TIED
Hides one's true nature LIVESALIE
Hither's partner YON
Home of the N.C.A.A.'s Rhody the Ram, for short URI
Houston A.L.'ers STROS
It postulates a space-time fabric THETHEORYOFRELATIVITY
It's pitchfork-shaped PSI
Joint winner of FIFA's Player of the Century award in 2000 PELE
Labor day setting? DELIVERYROOM
Leaf (through) PAGE
Little Richard hit with 'the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded,' per Rolling Stone TUTTIFRUTTI
Longtime NPR host Diane REHM
Lowly workers PEONS
Lucky strikes? ORES
Lucky ticket holder's cry IWON
Clues Answers
Magazine with annual Women of the Year Awards GLAMOUR
Many-time N.H.L. All-Star Jagr JAROMIR
Massage target SCALP
Miss GIRL
Monopoly quartet: Abbr RRS
Mr. Incredible's actual surname PARR
Mythical being depicted in bronze in Copenhagen Harbor MERMAID
Nonbinary identity AGENDER
Obsolescent TV companion VCR
One in a pocketful POSY
One might be taken in protest KNEE
One who might give you a shot NURSE
Online payment option ECHECK
Opening words? SESAMES
Orbicularis ___ (eyelid-closing muscle) OCULI
Org. whose academy's motto in English is 'The sea yields to knowledge' USCG
Paris's ___ La Fayette RUE
Perturb VEX
Phaser setting STUN
Picked a card DREW
Picked nits DELOUSED
Prefix for a polygon with 140-degree interior angles NONA
Preserves something? BERRY
President Ford and others GERALDS
Purple pool ball FOUR
Quite a tale SAGA
Radio medium AIRWAVES
Record holder for the most Indianapolis 500 laps led ALUNSER
Renaissance-themed festival FAIRE
Runs smoothly PURRS
San Francisco's ___ Valley NOE
Satellite inhabited continuously since 2000: Abbr ISS
Sea eagle ERNE
Sheepish OVINE
Signs off on OKAYS
Spa amenity ROBE
Speed that would enable a 23-minute D.C.-to-L.A. flight MACHSIX
Spirit BRIO
Steinful ALE
Super Bowl trophy eponym LOMBARDI
Swiss dish FONDUE
Swollen, as a lip FAT
Tears to pieces MAULS
The 1 in (1,2), in math ABSCISSA
They can't do without does STAGS
Thieves' place LAIR
Things the Energizer bunny may need AAS
Tiny margin of victory HAIR
Top female baby name of 2014-18 EMMA
Top type BLOUSE
Top-level foreign policy grp NSC
Top-ranked professional tennis player for a record 237 consecutive weeks ROGERFEDERER
Traditional, if bulky, presents in Santa's bag SLEDS
Tribute HOMAGE
Trump who wrote 2017's 'Raising Trump' IVANA
TV screen inits LCD
Universal self, in Hinduism ATMAN
Wallop PASTE
What fools might make of themselves ASSES
When one usually goes through customs ONARRIVAL
Where fans are often placed on high? ARENAS
Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard hits simultaneously NOONE
Work times, typically WEEKDAYS
Year that Michelangelo's 'The Crucifixion of St. Peter' was completed MDL
Yosemite attraction ELCAPITAN
___ fast one PULLA
___ sleep REM
___ tear (athlete's injury) ACL