New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 03 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BIT OF WISDOM PEARL
Playful sound while tapping someone’s nose BOOP
BRAINCHILD IDEA
Buildup of tanks? ALGAE
Atmospheric glow AURA
Barrel of monkeys DONKEYKONG
Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world’s flags STAR
CATALOG INDEX
Person you might see in August? GUS
WHAC-A-___ MOLE
Word after high or seven SEAS
Rice option PILAF
With 50-Across, blue streak SONICTHE
Shapes up TETRIS
BLACK, IN VERSE EBON
Barrier in certain zoo enclosures MOAT
Dora the Explorer’s cousin DIEGO
WHAT THE FOURTH LITTLE PIGGY HAD NONE
EYE AFFLICTION STYE
BLUE-GREEN SHADE TEAL
BATIK WORKER DYER
TRIM PARE
RIP REND
EXCITED AGOG
BIT OF INK TAT
SEE 28-ACROSS HEDGEHOG
START OF A FAIRY TALE ONCE
ADOPTS TAKESIN
ACTRESS MESSING DEBRA
Rice option BASMATI
Leather band used to sharpen razors STROP
Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R. ALF
Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell UMASS
Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum SCOT
Ghost in the machine PACMAN
Florida politico Demings VAL
“Toodles,” but more formally ADIEU
Knock me down with a feather ANGRYBIRDS
Like many theater camp productions ARTSY
Shred the ___ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain) GNAR
Skirt covering the knees MIDI
Noodles often served in broth UDON
Oversee, as a flock TEND
Insert a token, say PAY
Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park ELK
Goes by foot, informally LEGSIT
Unobtainable OUTOFREACH
___ motor skills (baby’s development) ORAL
C.T.O. or C.F.O. EXEC
Paper pushers? ATMS
TINY, INFORMALLY EENY
CHUMP SAP
OPERATOR USER
HOME WITH A DOME IGLOO
CAPTAINED LED
SPA TREATMENT, INFORMALLY PEDI
WALKED (ON) TROD
“No way!” NOTACHANCE
They can be parting SHOTS
Sting operation, e.g. SETUP
“Mostly harmless” place, per “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” EARTH
Giant head? SOFTG
Burn like embers SMOLDER
Playoff ranking SEEDING
One side of the Hoover Dam NEVADA
Get, as a quick lunch GRAB
More even-keeled SANER
Orientation inits. LGBT
It makes up about a third of our planet’s mass IRON
___ Mode, “no capes” advocate in “The Incredibles” EDNA
B&O and others RRS
“Huzzah!” YAY
“A Promised Land” author, 2020 OBAMA
MESSED (WITH) TOYED
Accumulated, as charges RANUP
Partner of dreams HOPES
LIFE-OR-DEATH DIRE
MANY A RESCUE MUTT