New York Times - Dec 2 2019 Crossword Answer

New York Times - Dec 2 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Letters on some American naval vessels	USS
Long-bodied fish	EEL
Male buddy	BRO
Manage to dodge	EVADE
Many an Eastern European	SLAV
Many I.C.U. workers	RNS
Modern viewing for couch potatoes	HDTV
Morse code O's have three of them	DASHES
Mountains seen in 'The Sound of Music'	ALPS
Nigerian princes offering you money, probably	LIARS
Observe Ramadan	FAST
Opt for	SELECT
Othello, e.g	MOOR
Painful to the touch	SORE
Piper's son who stole a pig in a nursery rhyme	TOM
Place to set a baby or a napkin	LAP
Pointless	OFNOUSE
Prefix with plasm	ECTO
Prepare to take, as a test	STUDYFOR
Pretend	FEIGN
Process of childbirth	LABOR
Puts into categories	SORTS
Rational selves, to Freud	EGOS
Ready to take home, as groceries	BAGGED
Reduce one's standards, as illustrated, respectively, in 3-, 5-, 7-, 40- and 28-Down	LOWERTHEBAR
School grp. for moms and dads	PTA
Scrabble or Monopoly	BOARDGAME
Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, to Madonna	EXES
Set on fire	BURN
Shortened word, for short	ABBR
Smallest possible amount	BAREMINIMUM
Spoonful of medicine, e.g	DOSE
Statement of affirmation	AVOWAL
Syncopated Latin dances	SAMBAS
Tennis great Roddick	ANDY
Vestige	TRACE
W.W. I fighter pilot who is Snoopy's fantasy opponent	REDBARON
World ___ of Poker	SERIES
___ milk (source of Roquefort cheese)	EWES

Clues	Answers
'Get it?'	SEE
'I'll ___' ('Try me')	BITE
'Sheesh!'	MYGOD
Adjusts lengthwise, as a skirt	HEMS
All tidied up	NEAT
Assn. like Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders	NGO
Be obligated to	OWE
Beethoven's '___ to Joy'	ODE
Boll weevil, to a cotton farmer	PEST
Businesses like the Kit Kat Klub in a hit musical	CABARETS
Candied Thanksgiving servings	YAMS
Change for a five, say	ONES
Church talks	SERMONS
City that's home to Iowa State	AMES
Classic actor who played Mr. Potter in 'It's a Wonderful Life'	LIONELBARRYMORE
Colossal	HUGE
Cotton gin inventor Whitney	ELI
Craving companionship	LONESOME
Curly and Shemp's fellow Stooge	MOE
Degs. for entrepreneurs	MBAS
Disease that causes a skin rash	POX
Distinctive stretch of time	ERA
Fearsome figure of folklore	OGRE
Film studio with a roaring lion	MGM
Flat tire's need	AIR
Flip out	GOAPE
Flowed out, as the tide	EBBED
French fries and coleslaw, often	SIDES
Grp. of medical providers	HMO
Helps with a heist	ABETS
High bond rating	AAA
High cry at doggie day care	YAP
High point	ACME
High point	CREST
Hullabaloo	ADO
Hurt in the bullring	GORED
Impulse	URGE
Kids' construction bricks	LEGOS
Learns about through books	READSUPON