New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
IN ITSELF PERSE
Like some language exams ORAL
“You ___?” RANG
Lighter alternative to a laptop IPAD
Makes some stitches PURLS
“Siddhartha” author HESSE
WITHOUT LESS
“Calvin and Hobbes” bully MOE
RECIPE VERB STIR
NEV. NEIGHBOR CAL
Slangy term of endearment BABES
Washington post (SATEEN) SENATESEAT
French film director Claire DENIS
Hawkins who wrote “The Girl on the Train” (2015) PAULA
Thumbs-up (SATEEN) ASSENT
Clog in a bathtub drain, maybe HAIRS
James of “The Blacklist” SPADER
Location for a tragus piercing EAR
Where Six Flags theme parks originated TEXAS
Site with a “Culturally Jewish” option JDATE
Fare that’s filled and folded OMELET
Chocolate brand with a mountain logo ANDES
Mongolian word in an honorary title DALAI
Having similar qualities … or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH
Rapper who popularized Auto-Tune TPAIN
Latin “Behold!” ECCE
Stay up all night finishing a book, maybe (GABARDINE) BINGEREAD
Holiday building material (GABARDINE) GINGERBREAD
Monkeys (around) MESSES
Part of an old-age plan, for short IRA
Character who lives on the “tippy-top floor” of the Plaza Hotel ELOISE
Severe punishment BAN
SHIFT NEIGHBOR CTRL
Precursor to the main act (NEOPRENE) OPENER
FLOORS AMAZES
Follower of sit or stand INS
MOTHER ___ HEN
ELIXIR TONIC
Like most running shoes LACED
Easily shockable sort PRUDE
TOWEL WORD HIS
GOT COMFORTABLE WITH ADAPTEDTO
“Pay attention!” FOCUS
What integrals calculate AREA
Striped minnow used in drug development ZEBRAFISH
OutKast or Black Star RAPDUO
Liable to make mistakes (NEOPRENE) ERRORPRONE
TAKE CARE OF TEND
“___ we all?” ARENT
SKIRT STYLE ALINE
TRUE REAL
GRAND REGAL
“Pop ___,” British show that launched Simon Cowell’s TV career IDOL
MAKES A DECISION OPTS
Country that’s more than 2,600 miles long CHILE
YOUNG FELLOW LAD
TOWEL WORD HERS
AWAY NOTTHERE
Big ask? POLL
Reacts to a grand gesture, maybe SWOONS
GAVE IN SAIDUNCLE
Visits, as a restroom USES
VOTING GROUPS BLOCS
Sole protector? TREAD
GOODBYES ADIEUS
Weed gummy, e.g. EDIBLE
Brooklyn art school PRATT
Got close to, with “on” VERGED
Pride : lions :: business : ___ FERRETS
Components of a mind map IDEAS
12-month rentals, often: Abbr. APTS
____ conjecture, one of math’s Millennium Prize Problems HODGE
Famed New York City deli ZABARS
Dungeons & Dragons and others, for short RPGS
Galette fruit PEAR
Grabbing distance (CASHMERE) ARMSREACH
KIND OF MOSS PEAT
Philadelphia specialty (CASHMERE) CREAMCHEESE
Ornate garden features PONDS
Understand someone else’s side EMPATHIZE
Altman who’s the C.E.O. of OpenAI SAM
Did a great job, in Gen Z lingo ATE
A red one is sweeter than a green one JALAPENO
“Love, Reign ___ Me” (song by the Who) OER
OBJECT OF WISHFUL THINKING? GENIE
Super-big fans STANS
THE DIAMONDBACKS, ON SCOREBOARDS ARI
Lead-in to wife or life MID
Energy sanctions measure PRICECAP
JAMAICAN TANGELO UGLI
Toy with verbal commands BOPIT
TV RATINGS NAME NIELSEN
Kind of comb RATTAIL
Lancaster of old Hollywood BURT
“Weapon” in a backyard water fight HOSE
Carbon levy, for instance ECOTAX
TRICK-TAKING CARD GAME EUCHRE
BROKEN DOWN DIGESTED
LIST ENDER ETAL
FENDS (OFF) WARDS
CAPTCHA target BOT
TRY OUT TEST
BUGABOOS BANES
Filipino spring roll LUMPIA
“As It ___” (Harry Styles hit) WAS
It’s found next to mercurio on the periodic table ORO
Bear’s home DEN
Type of quasiparticle PLASMON
Common Father’s Day gift TIE
How everything appears in hindsight CLEARER
Visual arts style DECO
Rainbow creator PRISM
Dark plain on the moon’s surface MARE
Baguette topper BRIE
“It must be exhausting always rooting for the ___” (Taylor Swift lyric) ANTIHERO
Extrema ENDS
Mr. Whipple of old commercials, e.g. GROCER
MASTICATE CHEW
“Understood” SAYNOMORE
Who said “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance” PLATO
FORMULA 1 EVENT CARRACE
“WandaVision” actress Elizabeth OLSEN
___ United, English soccer team LEEDS
Grin with a glow BEAM
Ship that may have inspired Homer’s “Odyssey” ARGO
Pharmacy giant CVS
Painter Rivera DIEGO
THUMBS (THROUGH) LEAFS
Unrepeated instances ONEOFFS
SOME HOTEL LOBBIES ATRIA
Old car inits. REO
What vampires don’t turn into, in “Twilight” BATS
Get seriously conked SEESTARS
Soaps, e.g. DRAMAS
“Hip Hop Is Dead” musical artist NAS
Car model whose name comes from the Japanese word for “crown” CAMRY
Something that may be cast SPELL
Carnival performer FIREEATER
Ready for battle, say INARMOR
Part of a Yahtzee set CUP