December 31 2018 New York Times - Dec 30 2018 Crossword Clues and Answers

 
Across
1. Exchange after a lecture, informally : QANDA
6. Room just under the roof : ATTIC
11. Sweetheart : HON
14. Base just before home base : THIRD
15. Postponed for later consideration : LAIDASIDE
17. "You young people go ahead!" : IMTOOOLDFORTHIS
19. Country between Ecuador and Bolivia : PERU
20. Part of a tree or a book : LEAF
21. Lowest workers : PEONS
22. G.I.'s ID : DOGTAG
24. "That's so funny," in a text : LOL
25. Lack in energy : HAVENOOOMPH
30. Dull, as a finish : MATTE
33. Begged earnestly : IMPLORED
35. Make a goof : ERR
36. Free-___ (like some chickens) : RANGE
38. Punk offshoot : EMO
39. "Don't leave this spot" : WAITHERE
42. Cairo's land : EGYPT
44. Force to exit, as a performer : BOOOFFSTAGE
47. Hosp. trauma centers : ERS
48. Broadway's ___ O'Neill Theater : EUGENE
51. Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
54. ___ Fein (Irish political party) : SINN
56. Either side of an airplane : WING
58. Traffic reporter's comment : ITSAZOOOUTTHERE
61. Plant-eating dino with spikes on its back : STEGOSAUR
62. Discover almost by chance, as a solution : HITON
63. Hoppy brew, for short : IPA
64. Helper in an operating room : NURSE
65. Another name for O3 (as appropriate to 17-, 25-, 44- and 58-Across?) : OZONE
Down
1. Brand of swabs : QTIP
2. Man's name related to the name of Islam's founder : AHMED
3. Lead-in to glycerin : NITRO
4. Prolonged dry spell : DROUGHT
5. "Much ___ About Nothing" : ADO
6. Assert without proof : ALLEGE
7. Cry of triumph : TADA
8. Spat : TIFF
9. Last words before being pronounced husband and wife : IDO
10. Not drive by oneself to work : CARPOOL
11. Cheery greeting : HIHO
12. Ares : Greek :: ___ : Norse : ODIN
13. Loch ___ monster : NESS
16. Patron of sailors : STELMO
18. Kingly name in Norway : OLAV
23. ___ Bo (exercise system) : TAE
24. Make great strides? : LOPE
26. Highest digits in sudoku : NINES
27. "Holy cow!," in a text : OMG
28. Quarry : PREY
29. Plant supplying burlap fiber : HEMP
30. Kitten's sound : MEW
31. Spirited horse : ARAB
32. Sextet halved : TRIO
34. "i" or "j" topper : DOT
36. Dictionaries, almanacs, etc., in brief : REFS
37. Poodle's sound : ARF
40. Scoundrel, in British slang : TOERAG
41. What a setting sun dips below : HORIZON
42. Urge (on) : EGG
43. "Who'da thunk it?!" : GEEWHIZ
45. Professor's goal, one day : TENURE
46. ___ Jemima : AUNT
49. Mexican president Enrique Peña ___ : NIETO
50. Company in a 2001-02 business scandal : ENRON
51. Enthusiastic assent in Mexico : SISI
52. Web address starter : HTTP
53. On the waves : ASEA
54. Fly high : SOAR
55. Notes from players who can't pay : IOUS
57. Bit of inheritance? : GENE
59. The Buckeyes of the Big Ten, for short : OSU
60. However, briefly : THO

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