New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 07 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
JOIN THE ARMY ENLIST
UNRETURNED SERVE ACE
HARSH CRITICISM FLAK
BLUEPRINT PLAN
OPERA SET IN EGYPT AIDA
Acts like one’s true self, colloquially KEEPSITREAL
Hot chocolate holder MUG
Optometrists check them EYES
Brushes away, as a fly SHOOS
Lady ___ (“Shallow” singer) GAGA
Was understated in one’s description PUTITMILDLY
PRICKLY PLANT BRIAR
Defeat soundly, in slang SPANK
Sticky yellow squares … or a description of the circled letters and what they follow? POSTITNOTES
Explain something in steps BREAKITDOWN
UNDERSTAND GET
Like all leap years EVEN
APPEARED TO BE SEEMED
What the KonMari Method leaves you with LESS
Baby’s garment ONESIE
Like talking with one’s mouth full RUDE
Org. defending individual rights ACLU
FREELOADING SORT MOOCH
Tupperware tops LIDS
Rise to one’s feet STAND
Where low-rise jeans sit HIPS
Tail end of a lion’s tail TUFT
Lasagna-hitting-the-floor sound SPLAT
Stone Age diet, familiarly PALEO
“I wish I could ___ that” (“Ew!”) UNSEE
DRIVE AWAY REPEL
ONE DIRECTION EAST
Get one’s story straight? EDIT
WENT BY BIKE RODE
QUITE PLEASED WITH ONESELF SMUG
BLUISH GREEN TEAL
SOAK (UP) SOP
Bird that’s still getting wise to the world? OWLET
Cook with direct heat BROIL
Workout break REST
Crazy talent, slangily MADSKILLS
Mani-___ (spa treatment) PEDI
Tossed and turned LOSTSLEEP
Secures, as wrapping paper TAPES
Follow the ___ (kids’ game) LEADER
Partner of greet MEET
“Up in arms” or “break a leg” IDIOM
Reaction to seeing the Northern Lights, perhaps AWE
“Where ___ go wrong?” DIDWE
POEMS OF PRAISE ODES
Star assigners RATERS
MAKEUP USED TO COLOR THE CHEEKS ROUGE
WRINKLY-SKINNED FRUIT UGLI
EARTH DAY MONTH APRIL
Collections of poker bets POTS
“Young Frankenstein” assistant IGOR
ACADEMIC HURDLES TESTS
SQUEAKS (BY) EKES
CORN CAKE PONE
NORTHERNMOST COUNTRY IN AFRICA TUNISIA
GODDESS OF THE DAWN EOS
INDIAN FLATBREAD ROTI
NARROW VALLEY GLEN
LITTLE DEVIL IMP
SMOKED SALMON NOVA
R&B singer with the 2006 #1 hit “So Sick” NEYO
Place for un béret TETE
Stuck, with no easy way down UPATREE
Stuck, with no easy way out INASPOT
NAVAL FLEET ARMADA
ARTERY OPENER STENT
SPRINGSTEEN, TO FANS THEBOSS
MARVIN OF MOTOWN GAYE
The Bruins of the N.C.A.A. UCLA
WEAR A LONG FACE MOPE
EARLY PC PLATFORM MSDOS