New York Times - Dec 30 2017 Crossword Answer

New York Times - Dec 30 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Best to avoid that'	IWOULDNT
'The Chosen One' of the N.B.A	KINGJAMES
'The Merchant of Venice' film star, 2004	ALPACINO
'The More You Know' spot, e.g., for short	PSA
'Yesss!'	SWEET
'You are quite right'	SOITIS
Artist with many mathematically inspired works	MCESCHER
Ate	HAD
Base for some Chinese art	URN
Bayou genre	ZYDECO
Benefiting	AIDING
Bombs	FAILS
Brand at Indy	FIRESTONE
Break down	WEEP
California's Point ___	SUR
Cards	IDS
Chips and ___ (Tex-Mex offering)	QUESO
Colorful pullovers	DASHIKIS
Composition of some beds	LAVA
Conseil d'___	ETAT
Courses for cars in competition	RACEWAYS
Cracks	QUIPS
Die down	ABATE
Does this church position ring a bell?	ALTARBOY
Elephant rider's seat	HOWDAH
Faithfulness	FEALTY
Folder, maybe	ICON
Gulf War weapon	SCUD
Hemingway's 'old man'	SANTIAGO
Inclines	TENDS
Item from another time	RELIC
Keystone figure	KOP
Laissez-faire doctrine	SOCIALDARWINISM
Like division by zero	NOTVALID
Like Earth	OBLATE

Clues	Answers
Little jerk	TIC
Loss prevention association?	MNEMONIC
Magnet alloy	ALNICO
Mark who won two golf majors in 1998	OMEARA
Matchmaking site available in Hebrew	JDATE
McKinley's assassin	CZOLGOSZ
Mil. branch disbanded in 1978	WAC
Miss's counterpart	HIT
No-goodnik	BADAPPLE
Old-fashioned sort	FOGY
One subject to imprisonment, in Dickens's day	DEBTOR
Option for people who can't handle the truth?	DARE
Party host's convenience	WETBAR
Patterned fabric	DAMASK
Pay back	AVENGE
Pioneering hip-hop trio	RUNDMC
Place for many a start-up	THEWEB
Played again	RERAN
Pole vault units?	ZLOTYS
Question that might precede 'Hallelujah!'	CANIGETAWITNESS
Ran harder	SPEDUP
Range	ROVE
Shoot out	SPEW
Snag	GRAB
Subject of Durocher's 'Nice guys finish last' sentiment	OTT
Subjects of some disputes in planes	ARMRESTS
Take in less	DIET
The shakes	DTS
They often precede hikes	HUTS
Troubling prognosis	WORSE
Woman's name meaning 'grace'	ANN
Zeroed (in on)	HOMED
___ Kamoze, 'Here Comes the Hotstepper' singer	INI
___ Karzai, ex-president of Afghanistan	HAMID
___ oil, ingredient in some health care products	EMU