New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Parts of comedy routines BITS
NEEDLEFISH GAR
Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra TOSCANINI
Geometry calculation: Abbr. VOL
“The rubber people,” in Nahuatl OLMEC
___ NOSTRA COSA
FROST HOAR
PRIVY TO INON
QUERY ASK
SERVING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT TEA
BOILS SEETHES
BOUQUET AROMA
BOTTOM NADIR
BIG NAME IN HEALTH CARE AETNA
DRINK AFTER A RACE, SAY HYDRATE
Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa NAMIBIA
They’re below par BIRDIES
Alliance since 1948, in brief OAS
Breakout performer? ESCAPEE
It’s blowin’ in the wind VANE
“How sad” ITSASHAME
“Damage” director Louis MALLE
It once shared a land border with 16 countries USSR
48-oz. beer glass YARD
Protective tip on a lace AGLET
ESCHEW AVOID
“Catch ya later!” ADIOS
Payments made at a table ANTES
Hardly the social butterfly LONER
Some red or white wines PINOTS
One-pointer in cribbage ACE
MADE SOME WAVES? OARED
LETTERS BEFORE Q LGBT
BEAMS GRINS
SLIGHTLY ATAD
LEG UP EDGE
FIRST LADY MCKINLEY IDA
CHER AND MADONNA, E.G. ICONS
PLANTAIN LILY, BY ANOTHER NAME HOSTA
FOOL AROUND LOLLYGAG
Umpire’s ruling SAFE
Golf’s Slammin’ Sammy SNEAD
Image of Mickey, maybe CEL
“___ Mouse,” Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972 SENOR
With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983] HEADLESSBODY
Filmmaker Johnson RIAN
Long-term deposit, in brief IRA
Drawstring place EYELET
“My heavens!” IDECLARE
Like the cheese in a grilled cheese MELTED
“The Seduction of Joe ___” (1979 Alan Alda film) TYNAN
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
SOME UNDERGRAD DEGS. BAS
OLD SPANISH COIN PESETA
Lake that’s largely fed by the Detroit River ERIE
Company once called the California Perfume Company AVON
DRIVES OFF SHOOS
POORLY ILL
Some have meters POEMS
Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush) MBA
MAKE A SCENE ACT
SEE 113-ACROSS INTOPLESSBAR
SHORT NOTE? IOU
Monopolist’s trait GREED
___ TUNES LOONEY
CALL FROM A CRIB MAMA
INFORMAL GOODBYE PEACE
TROUBLE WOE
INSTANT SEC
WASTE AWAY ROT
___ SODA SAL
SCHEDULE SLATE
LAPSE SLIP
CHOICE WORDS ORS
FUND, AS A COLLEGE ENDOW
Pull some strings? UNKNOT
Common saltwater baitfish SHAD
“Red telephone,” historically HOTLINE
[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948] DEWEYDEFEATSTRUMAN
Popular Hawaiian dish POKE
Footwear for a sharp dresser? STILETTOS
___ thruster (physics lab device) ION
[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975] FORDTOCITYDROPDEAD
“Biting” characteristic WIT
Old Scratch, with “the” DEVIL
It might be chewed in a theater SCENERY
Carolina Reaper, for one CHILI
The “U” of 60-Down UNION
Wise-appearing OWLISH
MEXICAN MARINADE ADOBO
DOLLOPS DABS
GO (FOR) OPT
T-E-A-M doesn’t have one, so they say ANI
Toward the opposing goal, in hockey UPICE
Creature in the final scene of “Cleopatra” ASP
“Victory is mine!,” in modern lingo FORTHEWIN
CERTAIN SPOT TVAD
SIGNALED CUED
TOLKIEN TRILOGY, FOR SHORT LOTR
FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH RESIN
WRAPS UP ENDS
Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed CASSANDRA
WHOLE BUNCH SCAD
Corrin of “Nosferatu” EMMA
RELEASE LETGO
[London Herald, 4/16/1912] TITANICSINKS
STOWED LADED
Wrap one’s head around GET
“I’ll get to work right now” ONIT
THREADBARE WORN
They can support a nest egg TWIGS
“Scarface” ALCAPONE
Latin “Look” ECCE
“Jeez Louise!” AWCOMEON
Attempt to tear RIPAT
Headwear that’s stereotypically red FIREHAT
Breakfast order request OVEREASY
Trojans’ sch. USC
TAXPAYERS ASSESSEES
9 to 5, e.g. DAYSHIFT
SERVICE PROVIDERS? PARSONS
[Variety, 10/30/1929] WALLSTLAYSANEGG
WEE ONE TOT
FLEET RAPID
The Second vis-à-vis the First, say SON
Where people typically go to the mat? PORCH
Writings of dubious authenticity APOCRYPHA
Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol IBM
___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023’s “The Lost Bookshop” EVIE
___ DHABI ABU
Morehouse or Howard, in brief HBCU
K-pop septet BTS
They’re known to open with some jokes APRILS
BEL ___ CHEESE PAESE
“How ya doin’?” SUP
Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015 ALEXA
“Jeez, I can’t catch a break” OHME
Good name for a geologist? ROCCO
Become crunchy in the oven CRISPUP
[The New York Times, 8/9/1974] NIXONRESIGNS