New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 22

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