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..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Couldn't stop obsessing about	GOTHUNGUPON
AAcross 12:	Bolted	MADEARUNFORIT
AAcross 14:	Nehru jackets have them	MANDARINCOLLARS
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 Botticelli	SANDRO
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 events	STOCKCARRACES
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" novelist	URIS
DDown 6:	Poor Clares member
DDown 7:	Seller of supplements	GNC
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 won	ATAPRICE
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 Tierney	MAURA
DDown 46:	Cross
DDown 48:	Rap sheet abbr.
DDown 48:	Rap sheet abbr.
DDown 49:	Manufacturer of bar code scanners	NCR
DDown 50:	Stadium shout