New York Times 2023 07 21 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Heroine of novels set at Lilac Inn, Shadow Ranch and Red Gate Farm	NANCYDREW
What follows both the living and dead?	END
Oscar-nominated director Gerwig	GRETA
Big part of California?	SUR
Some names on buildings	DONORS
Woman’s name that becomes a country when its vowels are swapped	MILA
Get metal from, in a way	SMELT
Kitchen variety	GALLEY
Towers from which muezzins announce calls to prayer	MINARETS
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” character	PUCK
Xeriscape garden plants	ALOES
UNESCO World Heritage listings	SITES
Defeater of Jörmungandr	THOR
Example of exemplary service	ACE
Opening gambit of sorts	PLANA
Call upon arriving home, maybe	SAFE
Suddenly think of	HITON
Possible result of a major fall	SNOWDAYS
What I might be	ONE
Boundary for “first and goal” plays	TENYARDLINE
How theremin music sounds	EERIE
Preceder of Christmas	MERRY
Exchange rings?	PLAYPHONETAG
W.W. II hero who retired from the mil. to run for president	DDE
Group cultivated by a recruiter	TALENTPOOL
Meaning of the Persian suffix “-stan”	LAND
Like electromagnetic radiation with the shortest wavelength	GAMMA
“Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!”	YOUGUESSEDIT
Billboard number, maybe	EXIT
Pulls and analyzes online information, e.g.	DATAMINES
Quad ___ (2022 record jump achieved by Ilia Malinin)	AXEL
One who’s out and about?	SLEEPWALKER
First national magazine to feature Steve Jobs on the cover	INC
DATING PREFERENCE	TYPE
Zaphod Beeblebrox in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” for one	ALIEN
PRIVY TO	INON
Creatures that can regrow a lost tooth up to 50 times	ALLIGATORS
Name that means “no one” in Latin	NEMO
Canceled, to a philatelist	USED
Highly trained body	NAVYSEALS
Place to find a hammer and anvil	EAR
“Nothing ___”	DOING
Magazine that debuted in France in 1945 and the U.S. in 1985	ELLE
Class some people are dying to get into?	ANATOMYLAB
TRAFFIC DIRECTOR	PYLON
SAY AGAIN	ECHO
ROW	SPAT
ACCOUNT	TALE
“Don’t be ___”	SILLY
CORE GROUP	ABS
Features of some cheesy dinner parties?	FONDUEPOTS
CALAMITY	DOOM
THAMES TOWN	ETON
More than a twinge	ACHE
AMAZED REACTIONS	GASPS
“Aren’t I somethin’?!”	TADA
MUSE OF LYRIC POETRY	ERATO
KIND OF DRAWING	LOTTO
CROSS SHAPE	TAU
Temple building	DORM
Joy of MSNBC	REID
A GOOD DEAL	MUCH
FANCY WHEELS	LIMO
RUNS	AIRS
Barbershop fixture?	TENOR
Cobs, e.g.	SWANS
Grp. that might get a talking-to by the principal	PTA
Little buggers	PETPEEVES
KNIGHT CLUBS	MACES
BUCKETS	ALOT
BUSINESS ABBR.	LTD
ACTRESS LANCHESTER	ELSA

Heroine of novels set at Lilac Inn, Shadow Ranch and Red Gate Farm

NANCYDREW

What follows both the living and dead?

END

Oscar-nominated director Gerwig

GRETA

Big part of California?

SUR

Some names on buildings

DONORS

Woman’s name that becomes a country when its vowels are swapped

MILA