New York Times - Dec 8 2019

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Clues Answers
'Actually, I do' WHYYES
'Buddy Holly' band, 1994 WEEZER
'Cross my heart' TRULY
'I messed up,' in slang MYB
'Impossible Is Nothing' sloganeer ADIDAS
'S.N.L.' alum who co-starred in 2016's 'Ghostbusters' KRISTENWIIG
'Say it ain't so!' ALAS
'Someone Like You' hitmaker, 2011 ADELE
'Swell!' NEATO
'The Song of Hiawatha' tribe OJIBWAS
'Well, that's quite a coincidence ...' WEIRD
'___ Como Va' (Santana hit) OYE
51 past NINETO
A count manager UMP
Amenable sort AGREER
Arduous TIRING
Ashton Kutcher's role on 'That '70s Show' KELSO
Ask POSE
Big brother? ABBOT
Birds or wasps NESTERS
Braced (oneself) NERVED
Carefree quality BREEZINESS
Caviar source BELUGA
Classic soft drink NEHI
Clothing designer Marc ECKO
Colorless gases ETHENES
Comaneci of gymnastics NADIA
Comes into view EMERGES
Counterpart of dorsal VENTRAL
Degree for a research scientist MDPHD
Disney's Herbie, for one VWBUG
Doofus ASS
Draws back SHIES
Emphatic denial NONEVER
Ewe or sow SHE
Family nickname SIS
Fictional land of books and film NARNIA
First part in an instruction manual STEPA
Follower of Sam or will IAM
Former TV psychic Miss ___ CLEO
France's Boulogne-___-Mer SUR
Frozen Wasser EIS
Funny Foxx REDD
Game console introduced in 2006 NINTENDOWII
Give the green light ASSENT
Give too much light OVEREXPOSE
Good-looking ... or a phonetic hint to a feature found five times in this puzzle EASYONTHEEYES
Hallucinogen sometimes called a 'divine messenger' PEYOTE
Heart topper, in bridge SPADE
Humdinger DOOZIE
Immature eggs OVULES
Impertinent sorts SNIPS
Ingredient in spanakopita FETA
Iranian currency with a 75-Across on its bills RIAL
It's often included with an R.S.V.P. card SASE
Jedi guru YODA
Jokey suffix with most EST
Knights' titles in 'A Game of Thrones' SERS
Latin law LEX
Lead-in to meter ODO
Like most Italian singular nouns finishing in -a: Abbr FEM
Like some '#@&!' language ABUSIVE
Little: Ger KLEINE
Lusaka native ZAMBIAN
Make alterations to RESEW
Manage SEETO
Members of une sororité AMIES
Memo header ATTN
Momentarily INASEC
Music-licensing org ASCAP
Clues Answers
National currency which, if you drop its second letter and read the result backward, spells another national currency DINAR
New York Mets epithet AMAZIN
New York social reformer whose name is on a Manhattan housing project JACOBRIIS
NNE or SSW DIR
No longer in style PASSE
Oar SCULLER
One shouting 'Get off my lawn!' GEEZER
One way to turn a ship ALEE
One with superhuman powers DEITY
Online publication EZINE
Part of a short race GNOME
Parts of hearts ATRIA
Parts of waves CRESTS
Patronize, in a way DINEAT
PC port USB
Pet lovers' org SPCA
Photo ___ OPS
Phrase on a candy heart ILUVU
Pince-___ glasses NEZ
Poet who wrote 'Jupiter from on high laughs at lovers' perjuries' OVID
Popular Asian honeymoon destination BALIINDONESIA
Prattle JABBER
Pulmonologist's expertise LUNGS
Quaint contraction TWERE
Rant TIRADE
Ready for publication EDITED
Reason for a TV-MA rating, perhaps SEX
Response to a funny meme LOLZ
Rock-___ (jukebox brand) OLA
Romantic preference TYPE
Saudi king before Abdullah FAHD
Scatters about STREWS
See 73-Across IMAM
Sierra Nevada, e.g PALEALE
Slow start? ESS
Smith and Nelson OZZIES
Some Pac-12 athletes UTES
Spanish or Portuguese TONGUE
State of disbelief ATHEISM
Stopping point END
Submits SENDSIN
Sudden turn ZIG
Supporting, with 'up' SHORING
Synopsis RECAP
Tampa Bay N.F.L.er BUC
Tattoo artists INKERS
Teacher EDIFIER
The 'A' of W.N.B.A.: Abbr ASSN
The most recent Pope Benedict XVI
Three or four, say AFEW
Three or four, say TEATIME
Top musical group of the 1990s, per Billboard BOYZIIMEN
Triangular construction AFRAME
Turns blue? SADDENS
Unable to move well AKINETIC
Under attack BESIEGED
United way? PLANE
University officials REGENTS
Unpleasantly surprise JAR
Vardalos of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' NIA
Visitors' announcement WEREHERE
Was given no other option HADTO
Was taken aback REELED
Washington's Kellyanne or George CONWAY
West Coast brew, for short OLY
What may follow fire or stone WALL
Where to see Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' UFFIZI
Wonderful receptacle? BREADBIN
World's rarest goose NENE
___ canto BEL