12/9/16 Answer New York Times Crossword

12/9/16

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1D
Shake on the dance floor
SHIMMY

2D
One serving a function
CATERER

3D
Virginia Woolf’s given name at birth
ADELINE

4D
___ Mayer, Yahoo C.E.O. beginning in 2012
MARISSA

5D
Ed promoters
PTAS

6D
Goes unused
SITS

7D
Cross swords
FENCE

8D
Gift on el 14 de febrero
ROSA

9D
Mistakenly
IN ERROR

10D
State for the record
DICTATE

11D
One of the “Big Four” thrash metal bands
ANTHRAX

12D
All right already!
YES YES!

14D
Things steeped in tradition?
TEA BAGS

15D
Affection from a pooch
LICKS

19D
Pair on Mississippi’s state quarter
MAGNOLIAS

24D
Dreaded dermal development
ZITS

25D
Street cart offering
GYRO

27D
Home security measure
LIEN

28D
Hit with the bill?
PECK

30D
Suckers
VACUUMS

31D
Song sung to Lilo in “Lilo & Stitch”
ALOHA ‘OE

32D
Intermediary
LIAISON

33D
Kind of yield
PERCENT

35D
Like a rained-on parade
SPOILED

36D
Giving a name
TERMING

37D
Pith
ESSENCE

38D
Move up the ranks
ASCEND

39D
Drones
PEONS

41D
Got rid of
TOSSED

43D
Female hip-hop fan
B-GIRL

46D
Between ports
ASEA

47D
It reacts with H2SO4
NACL

48D
The Magi, e.g.
TRIO

1A
Little rascals
SCAMPS

7A
Man ___
FRIDAY

13A
Joined the fray
HAD AT IT

15A
Like some roars
LEONINE

16A
Say, say, say?
ITERATE

17A
Web feed?
INSECTS

18A
Player of Molly on “Mike & Molly”
MELISSA MCCARTHY

20A
Some hosp. tests
MRIS

21A
Excessively tan
BAKE

22A
Like tritium and triplets
RARE

23A
Thirsts
YENS

24A
Suddenly changes direction
ZAGS

25A
Received high marks
GOT AS

26A
Change affiliations
REALIGN

28A
Flask material
PYREX

29A
Gist of a Dear John letter
IT’S OVER

31A
Mont Cervin and others
ALPES

34A
Tennis star nicknamed Le Crocodile
LACOSTE

38A
Unearthly
ALIEN

39A
See 53-Across
PICK

40A
Annoyance
PEST

42A
Take off
SOAR

43A
Sender of a billet-doux
BEAU

44A
Ish
OR SO

45A
Where Roger Ebert’s reviews appeared for 47 years
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

49A
Gets one’s feet wet
EASES IN

50A
Team “spawned” in 1993
MARLINS

51A
Certain trysts
NOONERS

52A
The great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition, per Adam Smith
SCIENCE

53A
With 39-Across, teeth-cleaning aid
DENTAL

54A
Registered, as a complaint
LODGED