New York Times - Dec 16 2021

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Clues Answers
"Dancing With the Stars" judge Goodman LEN
"Sesame Street" Muppet with magical powers ABBY
"___ Ben Adhem" (Leigh Hunt poem) ABOU
Atlanta sch GSU
Award turned down by Alan Rickman: Abbr OBE
Brambles with edible purple fruit DEWBERRIES
Call of support YEA
Casts off SHEDS
Certain marketing gimmicks TIEINS
Collectible cartoon frames CELS
Comes clean OWNSUP
Corresponds AGREES
Cowboys' grp NFC
Dangerous pellets BBS
Depictions of lands' ups and downs RELIEFMAPS
Drink sometimes served in a masu cup SAKE
Dumbbell curls build them, for short BIS
Figure on a fiver ABE
Flummox BEMUSE
Flummox BEWILDER
Flummox BEFUDDLE
Flummox ... or a classic word game represented by the central grid of shaded squares, in which 15-, 17- and 55-Across can be found BOGGLE
Focal points of a debate MAINISSUES
Former Fords LTDS
French connections ETS
Giving a boost RAISINGUP
Glasses, informally SPEX
Grazer with a bushy beard GNU
Hits the roof ERUPTS
Hot temper IRE
Hug or kiss, maybe GREET
In a real mess SNAFUED
Its flag has vertical stripes of red-white-red PERU
Joined forces (with) SIDED
Key just above G AFLAT
Laser tag equipment GUNS
Liberal arts college in Portland, Ore REED
Clues Answers
Mind OBEY
Monthly utility statement GASBILL
Name that drops "-jah" ELI
No. after a no EXT
Nonchalant CASUAL
Offensive line BARB
Old dagger SNEE
Pensée IDEE
Photo lab request: Abbr ENL
Piece of equipment for certain summer Olympians OAR
Pre-A.D BCE
Rabble MOB
Resting place BED
Runs out of water GOESDRY
Seriously shortchange ROB
Setting for Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" ILLYRIA
Shakespeare, notably SONNETEER
Singer Lana del ___ REY
Small bouquet POSY
Something often held underwater BREATH
Sound from a crib Mewling
South American arboreal snake TREEBOA
Start of a count-off EENY
Subordinate in the prosecutor's office: Abbr ASSTDA
Surfer wannabes HODADS
Three-vowel French word that sounds like a fourth vowel EAU
Took a second? REMARRIED
Transgress ERR
Uncompromising sorts HARDLINERS
Unrefined material ORE
Variety ILK
Very much ALOT
Weekly 90-min. TV show SNL
Weight HEFT
Winter exclamation BRRR
Word with room or system OPERATING
___-wolf SHE