New York Times - Dec 14 2022

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Clues Answers
'Duck ___' (classic Warner Bros. cartoon short) AMUCK
'It was all a ___' BLUR
'Less Than Zero' writer ___ Easton Ellis BRET
'U R A Q-T!,' e.g REBUS
'Whatever you say, hon' OKDEAR
56-Down, e.g ORB
A little of this, a little of that BLEND
A moose has a big one NOSE
Actress Thompson of 'Sorry to Bother You' TESSA
Atingle, maybe NUMB
Avatar of Vishnu RAMA
Big bakery/cafe chain PANERA
Bit of preachy prose PARABLE
Black-tie affairs GALAS
Broken up APART
Burros ASSES
Caps LIMITS
Colonel Sanders feature GOATEE
Cousin of a cassowary EMU
Earthy hue OCHRE
Emerges ARISES
Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat in its logo ARBYS
Fortunate circumstances ... or a punny hint to the shaded letters LUCKYBREAKS
French beloved CHERI
French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch OEUF
Fresh talk SASS
Gaelic language ERSE
Gem STONE
Gerund suffix ING
Give up CEDE
Good picnic forecast SUN
Groove RUT
Guitarist's accessory PICK
Instruct for a new job, say RETRAIN
John who wrote 'The Pelican Brief' GRISHAM
Kept in the loop, in a way CCED
Lack of musical skill TINEAR
Larson who won Best Actress for 2015's 'Room' BRIE
Left base? THIRD
Clues Answers
Like some of the mil NAV
Meat-and-potatoes BASIC
Mommie deer-est? DOE
More up-and-down, as a relationship ROCKIER
Move furtively SKULK
Name in price lists? ELI
One who may need credentials USER
Oregon-based shoe company AVIA
Org. originally founded to protect carriage horses SPCA
Oslo Accords figure ARAFAT
Otherwise ELSE
Pastries with a portmanteau name CRONUTS
Philippine currency PESO
Place to conduct forensics LAB
Projection from the fashionably late ETA
Quaint response of agreement YESM
Really hate ABHOR
Ring light? HALO
Seeds-to-be OVULES
Short life? BIO
Short meeting? SESH
Showered, as with gifts LAVISHED
Some Ph.D. students TAS
Some tap offerings, in brief IPAS
Something you need to do to solve crosswords SPELL
Start of a kindergarten ditty ABC
Super-super- ULTRA
Surveillance org NSA
Susan of 'L.A. Law' DEY
Swears AVOWS
Take up again RESUME
The hate in hate mail VENOM
Unfashionable unisex hairstyle BOWLCUT
Universal solutions PANACEAS
Up ASTIR
What sharing is, per a rhyming expression CARING
Where bills get passed, for short ATM
Word with straw or exit POLL
___ Heights GOLAN