New York Times - Dec 20 2017

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Clues Answers
'Relax, soldier!' ATEASE
'We shall never know all the good that a simple ___ can do': Mother Teresa SMILE
'___ now!' (infomercial phrase) ACT
19th-century Midwest territory DAKOTA
2016 Disney film set in Polynesia MOANA
60-Across, in baseball TEAM
A cat is said to have 60-Across of them LIVES
Absurd INANE
Ado STIR
Annie and the Little Mermaid, notably REDHEADS
Arrive, as a storm SETIN
Assessing, with 'up' SIZING
Be flippant with SASS
Bibliophile READER
Burst in space NOVA
Carrier of electricity CORD
Colorful bird with a big bill TOUCAN
Deface MAR
Designer Jacobs MARC
Difficult situation SCRAPE
Dole (out) METE
Dunham of 'Girls' LENA
Electricity, e.g POWER
First name in women's tennis SERENA
Food or air NEED
Gains yardage? SODS
Game-ending cry at a card table GIN
Gathering of people with a shared interest MEETUP
German homophone of 60-Across NEIN
Gregor who pioneered in genetics MENDEL
Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman SWEDE
Had a date, say ATE
Japanese 'yes' HAI
Kind of station FUELING
Left bereft FORSAKEN
Like cutting in line RUDE
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Like paradise EDENIC
Mate for a bull HEIFER
Month number 60-Across: Abbr SEPT
More concise TERSER
Nestful EGGS
Network (with) LIAISE
Nixes, as a proposal TORPEDOS
Office data: Abbr HRS
Opera set partly on the banks of the Nile AIDA
Pennsylvania, for example AVENUE
Person native to an area INDIGENE
Possess, in the Bible HAST
Possible score after 40-all ADIN
Prefix meaning 60-Across NONA
Pretend to be POSEAS
Problem before a big date, informally ZIT
Russian ruler TSAR
See 21-Across EIGHT
See 33-Across FIVE
See 46-Across TWO
Singer Yorke of Radiohead THOM
Small dam WEIR
Some businesses: Abbr LLCS
Sunrise's direction, in Sonora ESTE
Sunset's direction, in Sorrento OVEST
Themes MOTIFS
This puzzle's theme NINE
Upbraids CHIDES
V.I.P. at boot camp SARGE
Voiced SONANT
What transported Dorothy to Oz TORNADO
With 22-Across, certain way to make 60-Across ONE
With 34-Across, another way to make 60-Across FOUR
With 47-Across, a third way to make 60-Across SEVEN
___ 60-Across (state of euphoria) CLOUD
___ Jacquet, director of 'March of the Penguins' LUC