New York Times - Dec 29 2021

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Clues Answers
"Not a problem" ITSOK
"The best is ___ to come" YET
"The Lord of the Rings" brute ORC
"You have my number!" CALLME
"You ready?" ALLSET
1980s fad items advertised as "the gift that grows" CHIAPETS
A stroke ahead, in golf ONEUP
Acronym of urgency ASAP
Agent, briefly REP
Around, for a date CIRCA
Articles of exercise equipment YOGAMATS
Barack Obama's "A Promised Land," e.g MEMOIR
Bega who sang "Mambo No. 5" LOU
Bit of bar food WING
Bonobo, for one APE
Buster NARC
Cabbage kin KALE
Celebrity dog trainer Millan CESAR
Clicks that chide TSKS
Confirmation or quinceañera RITE
Ding-y thingy? TEXT
Ewing matriarch on "Dallas" ELLIE
Fail miserably, unless you're a chicken LAYANEGG
Fenway squad, in brief SOX
Field of expertise AREA
Film shot TAKE
First prez to have a 60-Across ABE
First-stringers ATEAM
Fog-induced frost RIME
Garfield, for one TOMCAT
Hastened SPED
Healing indicator SCAB
Heart's home CHEST
Historically significant period ERA
Ice pack? HITMEN
Ides of March reproach ETTU
Ingredient in traditional medicine ALOE
International grp. founded in Baghdad in 1960 OPEC
It's a little longer than a foot SHOE
Clues Answers
Kind of bread PITA
Leading star in Disney's "Enchanted" AMYADAMS
Leave no leaves, say RAKE
Lettered adversary in a battle of wits? CAGEYENEMY
Lettered awards show host? EMMYEMCEE
Lettered home on the range when no one's home? EMPTYTEPEE
Lettered school paper that's a snap to write? EASYESSAY
Like court arguments ORAL
Like pink or purple hair DYED
Lohengrin's love ELSA
Low-calorie, in beer names LITE
Magnavox rival RCA
Muscled, slangily SWOLE
NCR devices ATMS
Notices ESPIES
Parking meter opening SLOT
Part of the foot ARCH
Pickle MESS
Pool competitions MEETS
Prevails over BEATS
Pulitzer winner Harper LEE
Retail figure SALES
Rigging support SPAR
Saddlebacks, tumps, knolls and the like HILLS
Shout-out from the stands HIMOM
Singer known as the "Prince of Motown" GAYE
Some R.S.V.P.s YESES
Stereotypical lumberjack feature BEARD
Sure thing SLAMDUNK
The end OMEGA
Thick, liquidy clump GLOOP
Van Gogh's art dealer brother THEO
Well-kept NEAT
What travels on sound waves? BOAT
Where elbows may collide ARMRESTS
[Kapow!] BAM
___ milk OAT
___-deucy ACEY
___-eared LOP