NY Times Crossword 9 Aug 20, Sunday
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Across
Clues | Answers |
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Front | FACADE |
Spanish rice | ARROZ |
Little sucker? | VAC |
Smallish batteries | AAS |
Like a seacoast after a storm, maybe | ERODED |
Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend | SLOANE |
___ B. Wells, civil rights pioneer | IDA |
___-mo | SLO |
S as in soup? | NOODLE |
Kind of drawing | MECHANICAL |
Icarus’s downfall | SUN |
Skip work for health reasons | CALL IN SICK |
Words after “Ooh, ooh!” | … PICK ME! |
Beau, to Brigitte | AMI |
Verbal stumbles | ERS |
Baseball catcher | MITT |
Ire | WRATH |
Boy band with two members who previously starred on “The Mickey Mouse Club” | NSYNC |
Little suckers | LICE |
Headgear for a tailgater | BEER HAT |
One of the Arnazes | DESI |
“ but it’s up to you” | … OR NOT |
Famously green shampoo | PRELL |
Rap’s Shakur | TUPAC |
Pope after Benedict IV | LEO V |
*Winter vacation destination | SKI SLOPE |
Parades | STRUTS |
Barely beat | EDGE |
Goals | AIMS |
Silverback gorilla, e.g. | ALPHA |
Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony | RITA |
Drag racing vehicles | HOT RODS |
“___ trap!” | IT’S A |
Meager | SKIMPY |
Tired | WEARY |
In perfect order or, as two words, what’s formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters | SHIPSHAPE … or, SHIP SHAPE |
Dined at home | ATE IN |
More skeptical | WARIER |
“Hamilton” actor Leslie ___ Jr. | ODOM |
Break down, to a Brit | ANALYSE |
Theory | IDEA |
Sea ___ | OTTER |
Prefix with -plasm | CYTO- |
Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously | LIRA |
Safe places | SANCTA |
*Multi-episode narrative | STORY ARC |
Crucifix inscription | INRI |
Relentlessly question | GRILL |
En ___ (as a whole) | MASSE |
Having tattoos | INKED |
Event that’s a bit off? | SALE |
The butler, stereotypically | CULPRIT |
It gives Ford an “F”: Abbr. | NYSE |
Buff | TONED |
First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket | PALIN |
E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief | NCOS |
Successors to LPs | CDS |
Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask. | NWT |
One of the Gandhis | INDIRA |
Where to get a mullet trimmed | FISH MARKET |
“___ get it now!” | OH, I |
*Civic center | TOWN SQUARE |
Colored ring | AREOLA |
Washington’s Sea-___ Airport | TAC |
Non’s opposite | OUI |
Ban or bandit | OUTLAW |
By and large | MAINLY |
College entrance exam org. | ETS |
Hosp. V.I.P.s | RNS |
Author Zora ___ Hurston | NEALE |
Son of Aphrodite | AENEAS |
Down
Clues | Answers |
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Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon | FENCE |
Loud, as the surf | AROAR |
Chills | COOLS |
Not incl. | ADDL |
Set the boundaries of | DELIMIT |
Perfect | EDENIC |
Smart ___ | ALEC |
Painter of the “Four Freedoms” series, 1943 | ROCKWELL |
Sound from a cheering crowd | RAH! |
Even | ON A PAR |
Pinnacle | ZENITH |
___ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub | VICK |
Writer Serwer of The Atlantic | ADAM |
Event planner’s need | CALENDAR |
Attempts | ASSAYS |
They’re listed by degrees | ALUMNI |
___ boom | SONIC |
Struck, old-style | SMIT |
Bygone Apple messaging app | ICHAT |
Members of a blended family | STEPKIDS |
Move, in Realtor jargon | RELO |
*Airport logjam | SECURITY LINE |
*Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in “Casablanca” | LOVE TRIANGLE |
First lady between Eleanor and Mamie | BESS |
Fanny | TUSH |
Accented cheer | OLE! |
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two | REDHEADS |
Restricted zone | NO-GO AREA |
“Ba-dum-tss” | RIMSHOT |
Education support grps. | PTAS |
___ Paulo, Brazil | SAO |
Sea route, e.g. | PATH |
“Frozen” queen | ELSA |
Endless YouTube viewing, e.g. | TIME SINK |
French island off the coast of Newfoundland | ST PIERRE |
Tropical yellow fruits | PAPAYAS |
Writer Rand | AYN |
New York city with a marina | RYE |
Suffix with tour or Tory | -ISM |
___-El (Superman’s birth name) | KAL |
Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr. | WWI |
Fateful date | IDES |
What’s left at sea | PORT |
Dig in | ENTRENCH |
Flat, round bread cooked on a griddle | ROTI |
Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly | AOC |
After-bath application | TALC |
Anatomical sac | CYST |
Hoped-for response to an SOS | AID |
Lien holder, e.g. | CREDITOR |
Ahab’s father in the Bible | OMRI |
Desert’s lack | RAINFALL |
Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf | LUPIN |
“Awkward Black Girl” creator and star | ISSA RAE |
“Who cares?” | SO WHAT? |
Slapstick silliness | ANTICS |
Gary who created “The Far Side” | LARSON |
Award to be hung | PLAQUE |
Start of a playground joke | YO MAMA |
U.S. govt. bond | T-NOTE |
Compass letters | NSEW |
Unisex fragrance | CK ONE |
___ Street, Perry Mason’s secretary | DELLA |
Strong ropes used to support masts | STAYS |
Verb preceder | NOUN |
Bad things on motorists’ records, for short | DWIS |
“Dies ___” (hymn) | IRAE |
Curb, with “in” | REIN |
The Jazz, on scoreboards | UTA |