New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 11 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Start on a draft, say SIP
Feast for “holiday orphans” FRIENDSGIVING
Writer with good taste? FOODCOLUMNIST
One way to stress something that’s important DRAMATICPAUSE
Kitchen item for preparing cookies or pizza SHEETPAN
Shade named for a bird TEAL
Certain descriptor after a signature nowadays HEHIM
Arcade fixture with miniature toys and candy as prizes CLAWGAME
Elder Stark daughter on “Game of Thrones” SANSA
___ Institute, home of the Carl Sagan Center SETI
Brown-y points, for short? TDS
Kitchen shavings ZESTS
Caribbean spirit RUM
Hit song title for Abba or Rihanna SOS
Athlete’s affliction also called “twisties” in gymnastics, with “the” YIPS
Treatment for someone in transition, in brief HRT
Walks and runs, e.g. STATS
Makeup of some wet bars SOAP
“Did you enjoy yourself?” HOWWASIT
Sessions of congress? TRYSTS
One decidedly not laissez-faire MILITANT
Flashes of understanding INSIGHTS
Charybdis, for one MAELSTROM
Something held in church TENET
Leaves for lunch, maybe SALAD
Festivity with mountains of bubbles FOAMPARTY
Channel established under a royal charter BBC
Opens up, in a way BLOOMS
Modern meeting organizer ZOOMHOST
Retreats in the sand OASES
Up and coming ONTHERISE
Brand with three stripes ADIDAS
Gamer’s post-purchase add-ons, for short DLC
Photo of someone holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, say VISUALGAG
Like a daiquiri vis-à-vis a shot of whiskey, say FRUITIER
Burger burgled by the Hamburglar BIGMAC
___ Jackson Jr., actor who portrayed his father in “Straight Outta Compton” OSHEA
Charybdis’ milieu OCEAN
Slice of pie, mathematically SECTOR
Contents of some old calendars PINUPS
DROVE RAN
GENESIS WOMAN LEAH
TRY STAB
Recipe part STEP
MATTRESS SUPPORT SLATS
SUPPOSED SEEMING
Curing technique DRYSALT
TURN DOWN PASSUP
Sharp point on a kite TALON
On now AIRING
Musical intermission? REST
One might attach to a toddler’s backpack LEASH
Common bit of knitwear BEANIE
E.T.A. provider GPS
RECEIVE ADMIT
KEEP CASTLE
MOVES AROUND STIRS
Print sources, maybe PAWS
Apt rhyme for “fit” SNIT
RADICCHIO RELATIVE ESCAROLE
2014 Winter Olympics locale SOCHI
APPLE CORE, FOR SHORT CPU
Proceed with gusto LETRIP
Setting for the film “1917,” familiarly WWI
Bangs, e.g. NOISES
“My bad!” OOPS
It may be buried LEDE
THE 411 DEETS