New York Times - Dec 21 2021

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
"The best is ___ come" YETTO
"The Simpsons" character with a palindromic name OTTO
"___ the housetop, click, click, click ..." UPON
Actor Chaney nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces" LON
Ask for SEEK
Attempt, metaphorically STAB
B or C of the Spice Girls MEL
Building with a loft BARN
Bygone Russian ruler TSAR
Caesar dressing? TOGA
Capture the attention of GRAB
Card suit that symbolizes a medieval weapon SPADES
Cause harm to INJURE
Cronus, to Uranus SON
Crowning ATOP
Dating ___ APP
Developer of the game Breakout ATARI
Display of mentalism ... or a hint to this puzzle's shaded squares SPOONBENDING
Explosion fragments SHRAPNEL
Exposed for all to see BARED
First and only chimpanzee to orbit Earth ENOS
First place? EDEN
Fulfill completely SATE
Furniture depicted in Frida Kahlo's "The Dream" BED
Give away, as a story's ending SPOIL
Goofs ERRS
Halts abruptly STOPSDEAD
Hare ___ KRISHNA
Hawk's home AERIE
Home of the Met, the Whitney and the Frick, in brief NYC
Ingredient in perfume and potpourri ORRISROOT
Interim period MEANTIME
It may be printed on a place mat MENU
It may give you visuals LSD
Lasting marks SCARS
Lens holder EYE
Like some sprays NASAL
List shortener: Abbr ETAL
Long, thin strip used in building construction SPLINE
Clues Answers
M.L.B.'s first Rookie of the Year ROBINSON
Make fizzy AERATE
Not quite shut AJAR
One of Cyprus's two official languages GREEK
Orpheus' instrument LYRE
Part of a foot INCH
Pesky plant WEED
Pinky and the Brain, for two TOONS
Plundered goods LOOT
Prepare, in a way, as chicken DEBONE
Prominent feature of a fennec fox EAR
Put into the pot ANTED
Puts money (on) BETS
Question of identity WHO
Reserve STORE
Rock band whose name also forms the call letters for a rock radio station in San Antonio KISS
Russia's ___ Mountains URAL
Scatter STREW
Sewing shop supply SPOOLS
Sight near an exit sign DOOR
Sing smoothly CROON
Singing voice meaning "heavy-sounding" BARITONE
Sister NUN
Skiing and snowboarding WINTERSPORTS
Smooth (out) IRON
Some N.F.L. blockers RTS
Sorento automaker KIA
Subway stop: Abbr STA
Talk show host Jack PAAR
U.F.O. pilots ETS
Urges YENS
Walkie-talkie word OVER
Wapitis ELKS
Whale groups PODS
With special importance NOTEDLY
Work hard for EARN
Work of fiction NOVEL
www.nytimes.com, for one URL
___-do-well NEER