New York Times - Dec 5 2021

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Clues Answers
"... and to ___ good night!" ALLA
"Bull" airer CBS
"Give me a break, would you?!" GEEZ
"Let's Stay Together" singer, 1971 ALGREEN
"Please, I can handle this" LETME
"Symphony in Black" artist ERTE
... AMBITION AMBITION AMBITION .. RECURRINGDREAMS
... CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION .. CONTINUITYOFCARE
... COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL .. ADINFINITUM
... FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR .. NEVERENDINGSTORY
... GRIZZLY GRIZZLY GRIZZLY .. BEARSREPEATING
... PROPOSAL PROPOSAL PROPOSAL .. PERPETUALMOTION
... STAIRS STAIRS STAIRS .. NONSTOPFLIGHTS
Actor Spall of "Prometheus" RAFE
Adventurous kids in a 1985 film GOONIES
Astrology or palmistry PSEUDOSCIENCE
Awful-smelling FETID
Badger NAG
Before, poetically ERE
Bishops, e.g PRELATES
Brit's "How shocking!" ISAY
Brouhaha ADO
Card-matching game SET
Celebrity gossip site TMZ
Chemical suffixes INES
Choice words ORS
Christmas fir BALSAM
Click ___ (artificial increasers of website hits) FARMS
Clique INGROUP
Company with a Page Program NBC
Demure COY
Dennis the Menace's appropriately named dog RUFF
Destination for Birthright trips: Abbr ISR
Exam with a 35-minute timed essay, in brief LSAT
Execs: Abbr MGMT
Eyeteeth CANINES
Family member inaptly found in "ladies only" SON
First responder, for short EMT
Get hitched WED
Give one's take OPINE
Goddess of the dawn EOS
Grandma, affectionately NANA
Grinder HERO
Grinds away TOILS
Hawaiian taro dish POI
High school subj ENG
Home to the Burj Khalifa, for short UAE
How a zombie might spread the infection BITE
Inconveniences IMPOSESON
Investor behind the scenes SILENTPARTNER
It's got some miles on it USEDCAR
James who sang "I Sing the Blues" ETTA
Kind of jar MASON
Kind of milk SOY
Lament RUE
Lead-in to ask or suggest DAREI
Lew ___, portrayer of Dr. Kildare AYRES
Like New Jerseyans vis-à-vis New Yorkers FEWER
Like some apparel, in song GAY
Like the color of honey GOLDEN
Likely loser UNDERDOG
Literally, "I bow to you" NAMASTE
Maker of the classic video game Frogger SEGA
Male etiquette, as described by Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother" BROCODE
Many an informant employed by Sherlock Holmes URCHIN
Messy sort PIG
Mimic APE
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Shannon SHARPE
Napoleon's famed war horse MARENGO
Not friendly ICY
Notable chameleon feature TONGUE
Clues Answers
One gifted with the "inner eye" SEER
Op. ___ (footnote abbr.) CIT
Opposite of down: Abbr ACR
Opposite of FF REW
Org. involved in the Scopes Monkey Trial ACLU
Org. that hires cryptanalysts NSA
Ostrich relatives EMUS
Out ASLEEP
Pablo Neruda work ODE
Pac-12 athlete UTE
Palindromic feminine name ANNA
Part of a contract CLAUSE
Part of the eye LENS
Percussion instrument of African origin MARIMBA
Pet lovers' org ASPCA
Peter out ABATE
Philosopher who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" HUME
Piercing spot EAR
Pocketful in ring-around-the-rosy POSIES
Popular Toyotas CAMRYS
Prefix with binary NON
Propel, as a shell OAR
Put ___ on (limit) ACAP
R.S.V.P. option YES
Rapper dissed by Jay-Z in "Takeover" NAS
Rapper with more than 20 Grammys KANYEWEST
Rapscallion IMP
Religion that emphasizes seva, or "selfless service" SIKHISM
Reps AGENTS
Roy Lichtenstein's genre POPART
Samurai's sword KATANA
Sandiego not usually found in San Diego CARMEN
Savory Chinese snack TEAEGG
See 20-Across NET
Set down LAID
Shout CRY
Singer India.___ ARIE
Singular LONE
Slight problem SNAG
Smartphone predecessors, for short PDAS
Some diaper changers DADS
Someone's in the kitchen with her, in song DINAH
Something necessary for gain, they say PAIN
Stark who was crowned Queen of the North on "Game of Thrones" SANSA
Steve with eight N.B.A. championship rings KERR
Syracuse-to-Albany dir ESE
Ta-ta CIAO
The "grand slam" of showbiz awards, in brief EGOT
They're explained by Newton's law of universal gravitation TIDES
They're found below the "To" field CCS
Together ENMASSE
Tuna, on a sushi menu AHI
Vehicle company with a market value over $1 trillion TESLA
Way up or way down STEPS
What 10s represent IDEALS
What many lifeguards have TANS
What seven did to nine, in a joke ATE
What some kings and queens dress in DRAG
When doubled, boring result in the Premier League NIL
Who is "too small to make a difference," per a Greta Thunberg book title NOONE
Win for a 10-Down UPSET
With 116-Down, artificial intelligence system that mimics the human brain NEURAL
Word commonly following the Oxford comma AND
Word on a candy heart LUV
Word-of-mouth ORAL
Young 'uns TOTS
Yukon automaker GMC
___ cavity (where the lungs are located) PLEURAL
___ di Pietro, artist better known as Fra Angelico GUIDO
___ Minor URSA
___-yo FRO