New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
JUDGE DEEM
CONFOUNDED THREW
People for whom a state is named IOWAS
EXCITEMENT AROUSAL
CONTEND AVER
Shape of the heart’s electromagnetic field TORUS
Nativity scene decoration STRAW
Click that is often doubled TSK
“Blah” alternative YADA
Word with belly or barrel BEER
Fine parchment material VELLUM
Male name hidden in this clue LEN
How a storm might be tracked ONRADAR
Dead letter, in a mail sorter’s vernacular NIXIE
Buzzy group GNATS
Common name for potassium nitrate SALTPETER
Battle sites? WARBLOGS
“The sea is the universal ___”: Jacques Cousteau SEWER
Fruit-flavored gumdrop JUJUBE
Toon husband of Manjula APU
Not much, as of gel ADAB
Ika, in a sushi restaurant SQUID
Disjunctive conjunction EITHER
R-rated, as a love scene STEAMY
Put on the board POST
Tends to a minor issue? SITS
Like the strongest cases PROVABLE
HOVEL DUMP
Like the county where Jack Daniel’s is manufactured DRY
Round bits ZEROES
Overly sentimental fare SLOP
Genre for “Fun Home” and “Stone Butch Blues” QUEERLIT
Thesis defense, e.g. ORALEXAM
One with an “If You Choose the Lesser of Two Evils ? You Are Still Choosing Evil” bumper sticker, perhaps NADERITE
Music’s Outkast and Erasure, e.g. DUOS
Ear lobe? KERNEL
Positive restaurant review? YUM
Canine affliction MANGE
Spoil, superstitiously JINX
Barinholtz of “The Mindy Project” IKE
Salty and spicy RIBALD
With 12-Down, unfit ILL
___ Babbitt, inventor of the circular saw TABITHA
School co-founded by Albert Einstein in 1918, informally HEBREWU
Person with a 99801 ZIP code JUNEAUITE
Abruptly resign UPANDQUIT
Clear one’s head? SHAVE
Ones working with bread KNEADERS
“Abso-freakin-lutely not!” OHHELLNO
IT HAS ITS LIMITS CITY
Piazza, for one EXMET
DELI MACHINE SLICER
OVERSEAS TITLE SENORA
KNOCK ON RAPAT
SEE 22-ACROSS SUITED
PRIVATE NONPUBLIC
CRACKERJACK WIZ
SURREAL DREAMLIKE
MOST CHIC SWANKEST
“Perhaps I have what you’re looking for?” ISTHISIT
“How lousy of me” IMAJERK
Role for Robin Williams in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet,” 1996 OSRIC
They have everyone buzzing TOSSUPQUESTIONS
DOLTS JACKASSES
30-yr. securities TBONDS
U.S. motto starter INGOD
SUREFIRE CANTLOSE
A PIECE OF CAKE SOEASY