New York Times - Dec 14 2021

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Clues Answers
"Star Wars" racing vehicles PODS
"That's awesome!" SODOPE
"Yay!" HURRAH
"___ been meaning to mention ..." IVE
"___ Jacques, dormez-vous?" FRERE
10th anniversary gift TIN
2021 Elizabeth Warren book PERSIST
Actor Jon of "Good Omens" HAMM
Actor Pattinson ROBERT
Actress Campbell NEVE
Actress Farrow MIA
Baby's bed CRIB
Beguile, to Brits ENTHRAL
Chopper AXE
Climber's belaying device GRIGRI
County of Newark, N.J ESSEX
Cozy lodging INN
Depend (on) RELY
Director Anderson WES
Drops on the grass? DEW
Feeling of dejection LOWNESS
Female friend in France AMIE
Fiona or Shrek OGRE
Flag symbol seen twice in this puzzle's grid NORDICCROSS
Flier with a tail COMET
Friends PALS
Gaelic language ERSE
Gluttony and lust, for two SINS
Got an A on ACED
Got married in Vegas, perhaps ELOPED
Home with a northern exposure IGLOO
Hour, in Italy ORA
It's a mess! STY
Its flag has a blue 61-Across FINLAND
Its flag has a blue-and-white 61-Across NORWAY
Its flag has a white 61-Across DENMARK
Its flag has a yellow 61-Across SWEDEN
Job for a play director STAGING
Kind of beef from Japan KOBE
Clues Answers
Lawyers' group, for short ABA
Like the richest soufflé EGGIEST
Lingers (on) DWELLS
Little bit of time SEC
Logic puzzle invented by a math teacher as a teaching tool KENKEN
Lyrical dedication ODE
Military helicopters, colloquially HUEYS
Mr. ___ (Tootsie Pop's avian mascot) OWL
Nest egg SAVINGS
Northern European region SCANDINAVIA
Novelist Graham GREENE
Oil-drilling structure RIG
Opera highlight ARIA
Outed maliciously online DOXED
P.F. ___ (restaurant chain) CHANGS
Penultimate matches SEMIS
Philosopher Immanuel KANT
Play dirty GOLOW
Policy nerd WONK
Popular vote winner of 2000 ALGORE
Query ASK
Radium discoverer CURIE
Rapper ___ Wayne LIL
Refine, as a skill HONE
Scare off DETER
Second-tallest bird on earth EMU
Secretive org NSA
See 58-Down TREE
Set of moral principles ETHIC
Sign at a highway cloverleaf EXIT
Soup starter STOCK
Swords with blunted ends EPEES
Symbolic U.S. "uncle" SAM
Tolkien monster ORC
Two kings or two queens, e.g PAIR
Vacation destination RESORT
Virtual citizen in a popular video game franchise SIM
Was in a state of suppressed agitation STEWED
With 57-Down, car air freshener shape PINE