New York Times - Dec 12 2021

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"A Confederacy of Dunces" author TOOLE
"Because freedom can't protect itself" org ACLU
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" vampire DARLA
"Hold on ..." INASEC
"Mission: Impossible" theme composer Schifrin LALO
"Mr. Mayor" airer NBC
"Oh yeah? Watch me!" ICANSO
"Uh-oh" sounds GULPS
1979 Commodores hit with the lyric "Good times never felt so good" SAILON
A in French class UNE
Accent ___ GRAVE
Actress and inventor Lamarr HEDY
Aggressively mainstream, in slang BASIC
Animated figure TOON
Avid bird-watcher, say TOMCAT
Big game show prize CAR
Big-time ALOT
Blow a fuse RAGE
Blue SAD
Blues great Waters ETHEL
Bouncy toys POGOSTICKS
Causing quite a stink REEKING
Checked a box, maybe VOTED
Cheery "Ciao!" TOODLEOO
Christmas purchase TREE
Classic skit comedy show SCTV
Clinches, with "up" SEWS
Cold-weather jacket ANORAK
Come down with CATCH
Convention center event EXPO
Dan Conner and Danny Tanner, e.g TVDADS
Dangerous crowd MOB
Defiant retort MAKEME
Drive to the station, say SEEOFF
Economic stat CPI
Encrusted CAKED
Evil creatures in 7-Down ORCS
First stroke of the day ONEAM
Frank WIENIE
French auto pioneer Louis RENAULT
Frodo's film franchise, familiarly LOTR
Giant bird of Arabian myth ROC
Give an address ORATE
Great deal HEAP
Grimm account TALE
Guilt-producing meeting, perhaps TRYST
Hightail it FLEE
Hindu, for one POLYTHEIST
Holy ones: Abbr STS
Home in the mud STY
Hotel room restriction NOPETS
Inflame AROUSE
It may be glossed over LIP
Its etymology may derive from the diminutive of "borough" in Italian GHETTO
Its fleece is hypoallergenic ALPACA
Justice beginning in 2006 ALITO
Kind of license POETIC
Large orchestral gong TAMTAM
Leaf-to-branch angles AXILS
Leon who wrote "Battle Cry" URIS
Like a bad outcome for all LOSELOSE
Like Athena WISE
Like cranberries TART
Like one Freudian fixation ORAL
Mahershala of "Moonlight" ALI
Maker of Regenerist products OLAY
Male swans COBS
Manage OK COPE
Many a Sharon Olds poem ODE
Map lines ROADS
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Maxim SAW
Metal precioso ORO
Moving ___ VAN
Museum that awards the Turner Prize TATE
Musical medley MASHUP
National gemstone of Mexico FIREOPAL
Netted ENSNARED
New Testament miracle recipient LEPER
New York Cosmos star of the '70s PELE
Nobel-winning author Gordimer NADINE
Nonsensical INANE
One getting down, so to speak PARTIER
One of two in "Hamilton" ACT
One with a nesting instinct MAMABIRD
Opposite of morn EEN
Order member FRIAR
Org. with Divisions I-III NCAA
Oust UNSEAT
Pandora native in "Avatar" NAVI
Park supervisor? VALET
Part of a gig BYTE
Party mix ingredient CHEX
Person with lots to show REALTOR
Polite rejection NOSIR
Protagonist of Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" CORA
Record label for Otis Redding and Big Star STAX
Refine HONE
Research subject for which Bohr won a Physics Nobel ATOM
Revise, as text EMEND
Rock with colorful bands ONYX
Rodent-catching feline MOUSER
Scatter SOW
Set of showbiz awards, in brief EGOT
Shape SCULPT
Shed, with "off" SLOUGH
Show off at the gym FLEX
Side hustle for a carpenter? NAILTECHNICIAN
Side hustle for a drill instructor? BASECOACH
Side hustle for a hairstylist? LOCKSMITH
Side hustle for a marriage counselor? CIVILENGINEER
Side hustle for a therapist? BAGGAGEHANDLER
Side hustle for a veterinarian? LABSPECIALIST
Side hustle for an anesthesiologist? OUTPATIENTCOORDINATOR
Side of a block STREET
Singer Celine DION
Slurpee relative ICEE
Small sweater? PORE
Sole ingredient in some cookies? DATA
Some HDTVs LCDS
Something made in a hurry HASTE
Spanish city north of León OVIEDO
Starbucks size TALL
Sub groups? NAVIES
Sum total ENTIRETY
Suspense novelist Hoag TAMI
Tarot deck grouping ARCANA
Tech tutorials site CNET
Thrift-store fashion, informally BOHO
Trash day reminder, maybe ODOR
Try to lighten up, perhaps? DIET
Turned SLUED
Two-time opponent of Dwight ADLAI
Unit of prevention OUNCE
URL divider SLASH
Where the tradition of shaking hands as a greeting originated GREECE
Wizards' wear ROBES
Word after high or weak TEA
[Blown kiss] MWAH
___ fresca AGUA
___ legend URBAN