New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 09 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“What if …?,” informally SPOSE
Gunty who wrote “The Rabbit Hutch,” winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction TESS
Upgrade, as a backsplash RETILE
Honor roll, e.g. LIST
Industry that emerged in the 1970s GAMING
Actress Bella of Disney’s “Shake It Up” THORNE
Kind of test that’s impossible to study for? DNA
Unwelcome sight in musical chairs NOSEATS
SUB TEMP
Manufacturer of minifigures LEGO
STRAINS EXERTS
MOCK JAPE
A lot to like? PRIMEREALESTATE
“Being slightly ___ is like being slightly pregnant ? it tends to get worse”: Molly Ivins PARANOID
Exams with a highest possible score of 528, for short MCATS
YOU MIGHT SLEEP ON IT SERTA
HARSHLY CRITICIZES RIPS
Lawbreakers, informally PERPS
LAYS WASTE TO HAVOCS
Alexander Graham Bell, by birth SCOT
ADVANCE LEND
Plural form decried by staunch “Star Wars” fans JEDIS
Option for a backpacker HOSTEL
Japanese art form whose name means “skill” NOH
Farmer’s market sight TENT
Market events, for short IPOS
Philosophy influenced by Aristotle’s concept of the Unmoved Mover THEISM
Dog breed with a blue-black tongue SHARPEI
Size indicator TAG
Ancient civilization doomed by greed, in myth ATLANTIS
SAFE PLACE BANK
Vault opener? POLE
Brazilian soccer club named for an explorer, familiarly VASCO
DRENCHES SOPS
Battleship corner AONE
NEW MEMBER INITIATE
What an “X” might mark ERROR
BOTHERS AILS
EXCEL FUNCTION SORT
WRAP (UP) SEW
Members of the family Passeridae SPARROWS
A “whole” thing SHEBANG
FLIP LOSEIT
Failing to get it MISSINGTHEPOINT
Some flats CONDOS
Ticket picker VOTER
Kind of number represented by the equation M = v/c MACH
Apt name for a successful crypto investor? ERICH
Four-year-old in pig tales? PEPPA
Paste with an umami taste MISO
TWOSOMES DYADS
Part of the Detroit Lions schedule since 1934 THANKSGIVINGDAY
John, in Milan GIANNI
Windy flight? SPIRALSTAIRCASE
“Wowzers!” MAN
Pilot productions? PENS
Like you and me MORTAL
People for whom a “no contact” rule might apply EXES
Showed sleepiness NODDED
ELECT OPT
___ FOOD PET
“The Tin Drum” protagonist OSKAR
DIRECTOR LEE ANG
FEELING SENSATE
REUNION ATTENDEE AUNT
Extremely solid HARDASAROCK
Kind of diet high in omega-3 fatty acids PESCETARIAN
Lines on a ski map RUNS