New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Hot topping for a cone? LAVA
PRACTICAL JOKE JAPE
TRICKY BILLIARD SHOT MASSE
WAY OFF AFAR
Ensconced in AMID
Asian dog breed AKITA
*Ensign NOPARKING
Rich sources of beta carotene KALES
JOINT DOOBIE
One of millions in New Zealand EWE
Migration pattern? VEE
Lose one’s shirt, say STRIP
*Emirate MADASHELL
Coup planners CABAL
Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___ SWORD
___ VALLEY NAPA
Singer Williams who founded the Temptations OTIS
SPLIT UP APART
UNDERWAY AFOOT
DISCOMBOBULATED ATSEA
BARELY DEFEATED EDGED
BON ___ AMI
MEANT TO BE FATED
STEAMY STUFF VAPOR
CEREMONY POMP
COPACETIC JAKE
HANKERINGS YENS
CAME TO PASS AROSE
SCORES LANDS
LAUNCHES AN ATTACK MAKESWAR
LONG HAULS TREKS
Pre-med pre-req BIO
*Arbiter RATTLER
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g. DUO
Bibliographer’s abbr. ETAL
They’re typically older than seniors GRADS
One in it for the long haul LIFER
*Depot DUTCHOVEN
Put on a big smile LITUP
___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal) RIA
Figure in I Samuel ELI
Issuance from an American embassy, in brief USVISA
*Begin BEEFEATER
“And so ?” ERGO
Actor Woo-shik of “Parasite” CHOI
Doesn’t stay tight SAGS
Most-grown coffee bean in the world ARABICA
Chevy truck since 1998 SILVERADO
Staple of Trinidadian music STEELDRUM
Plein-air prop EASEL
Kelly of morning talk RIPA
CHURCH OFFERING TITHE
SURPASS TOP
APPLY TO USEON
___ FLY SAC
NOT TOO MUCH ALITTLE
CUT DOWN SLAIN
___ WHITE EGG
SEE 31-DOWN DRAFT
PUCKISH SORT ELF
“Yikes!” EEK
Nonreflective, in a way MATTE
First part of a triple jump HOP
Stole from a burlesque act BOA
With 50-Down, annual June sports event NBA
It’s never out of tune AIRGUITAR
Anathema to an aesthete POORTASTE
What some people are dyeing to be? REDHEADS
Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments PRIVACY
Big star, in Spain SOL
If-then-___ (programming construct) ELSE
Things one might pick up while entering a room VIBES
Focus of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book (1952-1969) UFOS
2024 Olympics site PARIS
TIME TO REMEMBER ERA
Going by, in brief AKA
“Time ___ ?” WAS
EXEMPLAR OF NEATNESS PIN