New York Times - Dec 12 2022

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Clues Answers
'Sin City' co-star Jessica ALBA
'Who's there?' response ITSME
'You've got mail!' I.S.P AOL
*'Don't quit now!' STICKTOIT
*Documentation leading to proof PAPERTRAIL
*High-energy person, metaphorically BALLOFFIRE
*Some fine porcelain BONECHINA
A cook might have a secret one RECIPE
Airport grp TSA
Ask for, as a cigarette, informally BUM
Basketball rebound play TIPIN
Beehive or French twist UPDO
Bit of skin ink, informally TAT
Blooming with foliage INLEAF
Box office dud FLOP
Carne ___ (taco filling) ASADA
Christmas song NOEL
Cooking vessels for omelets PANS
Cooped (up) PENT
Corp. honchos CEOS
Country east of Niger CHAD
Cozy home in the woods CABIN
Crops up ARISES
Dog command ... or a hint to the starts of the answers to the four starred clues GOFETCH
Eight: Sp OCHO
Ending with Oktober or gab FEST
Fate KISMET
Fliers that may consume thousands of insects in an hour BATS
Football team in Buffalo BILLS
Geological rift FAULT
Give joy ELATE
Hieroglyphic bird IBIS
In ___ straits DIRE
It can be verde or roja SALSA
Join forces UNITE
Kitchen description after Spaghetti Sunday MESS
Lasso material ROPE
Leave astounded STUN
Clues Answers
Liberty Mutual alternative GEICO
Like red-carpet celebrities ALIST
Low-pH liquids ACIDS
Ludicrous failure FIASCO
Major blunders SNAFUS
Means justifiers, it's said ENDS
Melon with a yellow rind CASABA
Narc's org DEA
Newborn horses FOALS
Nothing doing? IDLE
Obsolescent music purchases, in brief CDS
Official order DECREE
One navigating a maze, maybe LABRAT
Opinion survey POLL
Oration SPEECH
Org. for Penguins and Ducks NHL
Oxfam or Mercy Corps, e.g., in brief NGO
Panic! at the Disco genre EMOPOP
Petty kerfuffle TIFF
Pimiento-stuffed treat OLIVE
Pitcher sent in to seal a win CLOSER
Popular sans-serif typeface ARIAL
Putting to work USING
R&B great Redding OTIS
Rap culture HIPHOP
Shaped like dice CUBIC
Single, double or triple, in baseball HIT
Snoopy and Gromit, for two BEAGLES
Soothing succulent ALOE
Strategic maneuver TACTIC
Totally lost ATSEA
Tries to deice, as winter roads SALTS
Turn clockwise, as a screw TIGHTEN
Waistcoat VEST
Worm on a hook, e.g BAIT
[Gone ... just like that!] PFFT
___ fide BONA
___ Rae (Sally Field title role) NORMA