New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2022 11 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“Tiny” Dickens boy TIM
Home, colloquially CRIB
Starts to remove, as screws LOOSENS
Underhanded move for an athlete? LAYUP
“___ Dere” (jazz classic about a toddler’s many questions) DAT
DOUGH MOOLA
ASSERT AVER
EXHAUST TIRE
HEMMED AND ___ HAWED
Butterflies-to-be PUPAE
COMPOSER STRAVINSKY IGOR
One serving punch? … or, parsed differently, a hint to 12 squares in this puzzle BOXER
Transport back and forth FERRY
Item split by pedants HAIR
Casual getaways VACAYS
Friedrich who created a scale of hardness MOHS
___ Gerritsen, author of medical and crime thrillers TESS
Flag carrier airline of Spain IBERIA
Its spots are actually rosettes LEOPARD
Restaurant chain with a smile in its logo IHOP
Unleaded, so to speak DECAF
CAMPUS QUARTERS DORMS
Scatter like a flock of birds FLYOFF
Subject of study at CERN’s laboratory ATOM
Slangy command to someone arriving with a six-pack BEERME
Cutesy sound that may accompany a poke BOOP
Italian confection brand known for its gold foil wrappers FERREROROCHER
INDIAN FLATBREAD ROTI
Intimate apparel in many lawyer puns BRIEFS
___ it all (unaffected) ABOVE
Babysitter’s handful BRAT
Soeur’s sibling FRERE
Small dog originally bred for fox hunting BORDERTERRIER
NOTIFICATION ALERT
PROTEIN-BUILDING ACID AMINO
SOUTHWESTERN SIGHTS MESAS
Founder of heavy metal’s Body Count ICET
Gaming novices NOOBS
Sprinter that’s a homophone of 46-Across HARE
Fall Out Boy, for one EMOBAND
Stiff, as competition FIERCE
Much of Finland’s wilderness FIRS
Nutmeg’s “sister spice” MACE
Parties that become naps when their first letter is changed to an “s” FIESTAS
Dinosaur DNA source in “Jurassic Park” AMBER
When many hibernations end APRIL
Extremely virtuous sort SAINT
2007 Alicia Keys album ASIAM
Two-thirds of 100 ZEROS
Bombeck who wrote “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession” ERMA
DREW ON USED
SEASONS, IN A WAY SALTS
ORACLE SEER
SWIMMING COMPETITION MEET
Only U.S. president also to serve as chief justice TAFT
First men?s tennis player to reach 10 consecutive Grand Slam singles finals ROGERFEDERER
“Amen!” OHHELLYEAH
Loath (to) AVERSE
Way to go, in Paris RUE
EYELID WOE STYE
13th-century Persian poet and mystic RUMI
___ HOUND BASSET
___ HIGHNESS YOUR
ROCKER ROSE AXL
SENSITIVE SPOTS SORES
DEAL BREAKER? NARC
Start of an objection BUT
Words said at the front of an aisle IDOS
“What are the ___?” ODDS
Like the ocean’s ebb and flow TIDAL
One mentioned in “Class Notes,” informally ALUM
Shout that may accompany many arms waving WEREOVERHERE
LA ___, BOLIVIA PAZ
GIGGLE HEHE
Temporary embarrassment in a public competition, figuratively BLOODYNOSE
Suffix with omni- VORE
___ FIDE BONA
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