New York Times - Dec 25 2021

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"Bad Lieutenant" star KEITEL
"Let's pray it never comes to that" GODFORBID
"No way!," spelled out in a text OHEMGEE
"What ___?" GIVES
1979 Donna Summer hit ... or where it was heard ONTHERADIO
21 popes JOHNS
Aquaman portrayer MOMOA
Bad way to be disguised THINLY
Ball ___ PEEN
Bases of support PLINTHS
Battery type NICAD
Be behind bars? TEND
Body opening? ANY
Cannonball targets POOLS
Charge IONIZE
Checkout choice PLASTICBAG
Classic "I messed up" gift ROSES
Dulcé ___, correspondent for "The Daily Show" beginning in 2017 SLOAN
Enough AMPLE
Father of many children with Aphrodite ARES
Fly far, far away? TSETSE
Help lift something, maybe? ABET
Japanese beer KIRIN
Java has a rare species of one RHINO
Jumper, e.g SLEEVELESSDRESS
Kick in ADD
Linguist Okrand who created Klingon MARC
Listing in the Fortune 100 MEGACORPORATION
Lose it completely GOINSANE
Lug SCHLEP
Manner MODE
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Members of filmdom's Breakfast Club TEENS
Model and body positivity activist Holliday TESS
More familiar name for hydrated magnesium silicate TALC
Ohio pro athlete, informally CAV
One cycle per second HERTZ
One straying from the norm DEVIATOR
Pained expression OWW
Pass on RETELL
Places to get waxed SALONS
Refuse DECLINE
Reins in TAMES
Relating to sound PHONIC
Sam who directed "A Simple Plan" RAIMI
Sarcastic response to an attempt at intimidation OOHIMSCARED
Side (with) ALLY
Some news on Wall St IPOS
Some spreads PATES
Something suddenly fashionable THENEWBLACK
Souvlaki go-with PITA
Spongelike delicacy MOREL
Stuff JAMPACK
Subject of some MK-Ultra experiments LSD
Switch letters AMFM
The oldest known one was found carved into a mammoth tusk (~25,000 B.C.) MAP
They're filled with dough ATMS
Things you might snap on, nowadays PHOTOAPPS
Units equal to 10 micronewtons DYNES
W.N.B.A. M.V.P. in 2015 and 2019 ELENADELLEDONNE
Welcome sign of spring SHORTSWEATHER
Writer whose initials, when doubled, become another answer in this puzzle TSELIOT