NYT Crossword: answers for Saturday, December 28

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NYT Crossword: answers for Saturday, December 28

Across

  1. Fans flip for it: SPORTSPAGE
  2. Deflection technique: WHATABOUTISM
  3. Iconic accessory worn by 1-Down: DEERSTALKERCAP
  4. Acts human, proverbially: ERRS
  5. Medical container: VIAL
  6. Infamous bushranger Kelly: NED
  7. Hand-drawn frame: CEL
  8. Posthumous title: SAINT
  9. Far from floor-reaching: MINI
  10. One for the books, in brief?: CFO
  11. Hurt: STUNG
  12. Feature of English, but not Chinese: TENSE
  13. Narrative thread: ARC
  14. Classic red rubber dog toy: KONG
  15. Get lost: BEATIT
  16. Manage: EKEOUT
  17. Call to a crew: LANDHO
  18. Letter-shaped apparel: TSHIRT
  19. Unit cost?: RENT
  20. Tree creature of fiction: ENT
  21. Wanting: SHORT
  22. Singles, say: SONGS
  23. Juilliard offering, in brief: MFA
    • or -: POLE
  24. Compromises: BENDS
  25. Birth control option: IUD
  26. Simple operation: SUM
  27. Jenkins known as “The First Lady of Children’s Music”: ELLA
  28. Kind of vaccine: MRNA
  29. Sesquipedalia: TENDOLLARWORDS
  30. Some celebrity memorabilia: SIGNEDPHOTOS
  31. Current from currents: HYDROPOWER

Down

  1. Guinness’s second-most-portrayed literary character in film, after Dracula: SHERLOCKHOLMES
  2. Target scores: PARS
  3. They start with coin tosses, in brief: OTS
  4. Singer in the family?: RAT
  5. Schedule inits.: TBA
  6. What are you doing?: SOLVING
  7. First trimester woe, informally: PUKING
  8. Bothered: ATEAT
  9. Part of some superhero names: GIRL
  10. What’s left of F1: ESC
  11. “Sorry, that’s the last one”: WEREFRESHOUT
  12. One asked “to change his ways,” per a 1988 hit: MANINTHEMIRROR
  13. Label that first signed the Rolling Stones: DECCA
  14. Sources of retirement income: PENSIONFUNDS
  15. Paleolithic, for example: DIET
  16. Strong draft: STOUT
  17. Hilda or Zelda, to Sabrina the Teenage Witch: AUNT
  18. Beverage that begins with a bee?: MEAD
  19. Hybrid sportswear: SKORT
  20. Gear that’s a homophone of 25-Across: TENTS
  21. Fringe: British English :: ___: American English: BANGS
  22. Snakes were famously driven from it, in legend: EIRE
  23. Impart: LEND
  24. There are nine in a shot glass: Abbr.: TSPS
  25. World’s highest-paid athlete in 2024: RONALDO
  26. Cues for applause: TADAS
  27. One side of a deal: SELLER
  28. Lightheaded?: BLOND
  29. High-strung: EDGY
  30. Bit of dust: MOTE
  31. Major inits. in biomedical research: NIH
  32. Clock, e.g.: APP
  33. Corinthian character: RHO
  34. “Neat!”: WOW

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