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New York Times Answers

Friday, 23rd December 2011
There are 27 across clues and 36 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 23rd December 2011. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Couldn't stop obsessing aboutGOTHUNGUPON
AAcross 12: BoltedMADEARUNFORIT
AAcross 14: Nehru jackets have themMANDARINCOLLARS
AAcross 16: Decides to try
AAcross 17: Branch of mathematics
AAcross 18: Man of steel?
AAcross 19: Add numbers to, say
AAcross 22: Flower named for its resemblance to a turban
AAcross 23: Typesetting no-no
AAcross 24: Paul in politics
AAcross 25: Bread box?
AAcross 26: Renaissance painter BotticelliSANDRO
AAcross 27: Member of a caste system
AAcross 28: Stealing from the collection plate, e.g.
AAcross 31: Org. whose roots go back to the Civil War
AAcross 34: Violent upheaval
AAcross 35: Maintain
AAcross 39: "Evita" narrator
AAcross 40: Change for the better
AAcross 41: "I'm very impressed!"
AAcross 42: Insects
AAcross 44: Trees sought by leaf peepers
AAcross 45: Twig used in wickerwork
AAcross 46: Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music"SALIERI
AAcross 47: Game you can't lose twice
AAcross 51: Nationwide Series eventsSTOCKCARRACES
AAcross 52: Initiated, as an undertaking
DDown 1: Visitor at the beginning of "The Hobbit"GANDALF
DDown 2: Material for the Guinness Book
DDown 3: Part of a service
DDown 4: "The Luck of Roaring Camp" writer
DDown 5: "Trinity" novelistURIS
DDown 6: Poor Clares member
DDown 7: Seller of supplementsGNC
DDown 8: Overhead light, perhaps
DDown 9: It grows older and then croaks
DDown 10: Woollike acrylic fiber
DDown 11: River flowing between two Great Lakes
DDown 12: Birthplace of Virgil
DDown 13: Largest moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit
DDown 14: Morning weather phenomena
DDown 15: Trail
DDown 19: Steering system components
DDown 20: Slaphappy, say
DDown 21: Sticks
DDown 23: Battled
DDown 26: Nobody
DDown 29: How Pyrrhic victories are wonATAPRICE
DDown 30: Secret Service agent's accouterment
DDown 31: Blood shed on Mount Olympus
DDown 32: Popular test animal in medical research
DDown 33: They put half the world down
DDown 36: Did Jeeves's job
DDown 37: Turns out
DDown 38: Albert's love in "Bye Bye Birdie"ROSIE
DDown 41: Irving Berlin's "Always," e.g.
DDown 43: Creator of many talking animals
DDown 44: Actress TierneyMAURA
DDown 46: Cross
DDown 48: Rap sheet abbr.
DDown 48: Rap sheet abbr.
DDown 49: Manufacturer of bar code scannersNCR
DDown 50: Stadium shout
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