New York Times 2023 04 20 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Cog on a wheel	TOOTH
Stick under the bed?	SLAT
Where wild animals are most likely to see you	ZOO
Play with, as a catnip mouse	PAWAT
Capital of Brazil until 1960, informally	RIO
Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm	GOBI
Conservative, in a sense	CAUTIOUS
Subject of a fully exposed image?	NUDIST
Affirming words	IDO
Shifty type?	UPPERCASE
Site of a Herculean task	NEMEA
Sparkly wine cocktail	SPRITZ
Word before and after “to,” in a religious phrase	ASHES
Praises to the heavens	LIONIZES
Mideast federation since 1971, in brief	UAE
Shortest path connecting two points on a sphere	ARC
Served flawlessly?	ACED
Off-the-books business, perhaps	CASHTRADE
Surprise encounter	RUNIN
Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts	ARE
*Like a household with a stay-at-home parent, maybe	WEOUZHWZO
Padded accounts?	TALES
Old-fashioned “Whoopee!”	HUZZAH
*Longtime Mazda catchphrase	EOONEOON
*Annual gathering of superhero fans	ZOUUHEOU
Member of TV’s Addams Family	ITT
MAKE BROADER	WIDEN
REFUSES TO	WONT
Brand of congestion medication	SUDAFED
QUICK BITE	NOSH
___ CRAWL	NEWS
BAMBOOZLE	COZEN
Muppet named after a character in “Midnight Cowboy”	RIZZO
Org. endorsing P.P.E. for workers	OSHA
FUNCTION	USE
Words before a deadline	DUEBY
LAST IN A SERIES	ZEE
*Babe-in-the-woods quality	WUZWUOZZH
Where the smallest bones in the body are found	EAR
Wee ‘un	TOT
Henry Ford’s sole heir	EDSEL
“___ see it from my perspective ?”	TRYTO
Consider something to be	DEEMIT
Lot in Genesis, e.g.	WIDOWER
How this puzzle’s grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across	CLOCKWISE
Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers	THEBIGS
Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled “A Coming-of-Gender Story”	SISSY
Components of a hard six, in craps	TREYS
Surname of father/son actors James and Scott	CAAN
REALLY ENJOY	LAPUP
IN KEEPING WITH	ASPER
OLYMPICS VENUE	ARENA
POLITE REFUSAL	NOSIR
More or less, in time	CIRCA
Señor’s send-off	ADIOS
LAST IN A SERIES	NTH
SWINDLE	BUNKO
LUBRICATE AGAIN	REOIL
DUNDERHEAD	NITWIT
PAPAL EMISSARY	NUNCIO
TINY PARTICLE	ION
SAMBUCA FLAVORING	ANISE
Antique tools for pressing clothes	SADIRONS
IT COMES AND GOES	FAD
MOVES QUICKLY, AS A CLOUD	SCUDS
Farm delivery letters	CSA
Mer makeup	EAU
Ficus fruit	FIG
Mighty Patch target	ZIT
FRATERNITY LETTER	TAU
RIVER DEPOSITS	SILTS
FUMBLE	GOOF
1977 Linda Ronstadt hit	ITSSOEASY
Jean who wrote “Wide Sargasso Sea”	RHYS
Overly suspicious	PARANOID
N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas	ISIAH

Cog on a wheel

TOOTH

Stick under the bed?

SLAT

Where wild animals are most likely to see you

ZOO

Play with, as a catnip mouse

PAWAT

Capital of Brazil until 1960, informally

RIO

Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm

GOBI