New York Times 2025 03 11 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
TAKE TO THE SKY	AVIATE
“A pain in the neck,” e.g.	IDIOM
Frenchman who developed an anthrax vaccine	PASTEUR
U.S.’s oldest continuous women’s professional sports org.	LPGA
RELINQUISHES	CEDES
Finger foods served on a toothpick, maybe	CANAPES
Surveillance device, informally	CAM
Type of event run by the 1-Across	PROAM
Make noticeable progress	MOVETHENEEDLE
PERPLEX	BEMUSE
Kia S.U.V.	SORENTO
REEKS	STINKS
One side of the political aisle, with “the”	LEFT
Sunbather’s goal	TAN
Bears’ lairs	DENS
Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for “The Optimist’s Daughter”	WELTY
MADE A SCENE?	ACTED
Fig. at a body shop	EST
Believer in Jah, familiarly	RASTA
Followed the leader	OBEYED
AT THE MOMENT	ASOFNOW
Revolutionary Turner	NAT
DECORATIVE PILLOWCASE	SHAM
Kissing on a park bench, e.g., for short	PDA
SPOOKY-SOUNDING LAKE	ERIE
Herr Schindler in “Schindler’s List”	OSKAR
___ salmon	SMOKED
“Fingers crossed!”	HOPESO
GEAR TOOTH	COG
FUNCTIONAL	USABLE
“I cannot ___ anybody anything; I can only make them think”: Socrates	TEACH
Road sign with a unidirectional arrow	ONEWAY
The Blenheim in England, for one	PALACE
Hermann who wrote “Siddhartha”	HESSE
VEX	EATAT
GIVES A THUMBS-UP	VOTESYES
Ian Fleming figure	SPY
Hawaii’s Mauna ___	KEA
PHOTO ___	OPS
99% fat-free, say	LEAN
“___ soon?”	TOO
“Roll Tide!” school, in brief	BAMA
“I.e.,” spelled out	IDEST
“Nope!”	UHUH
MIDDLING MARK	CEE
First-person shooter video game franchise	HALO
Sample sake, say	SIP
SAILING, SAY	ASEA
HORROR DIRECTOR ROTH	ELI
Recruit successfully, as a reluctant participant	ROPEIN
Like some temporary committees	ADHOC
Plenty o’	LOTSA
“Wowza!”	OMG
Texter’s “I can’t believe this”	SMH
Aussie buds	MATES
SIGNS OF SPRING	ROSEBUDS
They’re mined, all mined!	ORES
A DEER, A FEMALE DEER	DOE
Jazz legend Shaw	ARTIE
Take in the paper?	OPED
OFFER A THOUGHT	OPINE
Grasp a central idea	GETTHEPOINT
Is nuts for	LOVES
Traditional Chinese medicine component … in which a practitioner might 3-, 9- and 18-Down?	ACUPUNCTURE
GAVE IT A GO	TRIED
Compliment on the green	NICEPUTT
“Taste the rainbow” candy	SKITTLES
“Hijack” actor Idris	ELBA
SIOUX CITY NATIVE	IOWAN
BETRAY	STABINTHEBACK
Common cooking oil	CANOLA
Pollen producer	STAMEN
So-called “windows to the soul”	EYES
Actor Sean of “Stranger Things”	ASTIN

TAKE TO THE SKY

AVIATE

“A pain in the neck,” e.g.

IDIOM

Frenchman who developed an anthrax vaccine

PASTEUR

U.S.’s oldest continuous women’s professional sports org.

LPGA

RELINQUISHES

CEDES

Finger foods served on a toothpick, maybe

CANAPES