New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Watery, as tea WEAK
A spare one might be kept in the boot TYRE
Word before date or dance RAIN
Journalists’ credits BYLINES
Bit of Tex-Mex bar food TACO
Starting point for a record-setting swim in 2023’s “Nyad” CUBA
One under a birdie EAGLE
Pigment used in the Lascaux cave paintings OCHER
New, waxing, waning, full, etc. PHASES
STICKY STUFF GOO
Frequently phished figs. SSNS
FUEL FROM A BOG PEAT
GROUP OF ANTS ARMY
RENT OUT LET
SIGN BEFORE VIRGO LEO
HOSP. AREAS ERS
___ vs. para (Spanish 101 topic) POR
Auction bundle LOT
Worn-down part of a shoe SOLE
Japan’s national fish KOI
Risky choice of surfing apparel BIKINI
Makes (oneself) beloved ENDEARS
San Fran athlete NINER
Pepper and O’Leary of classic rock: Abbr. SGTS
Immobilizers for bone fractures SPLINTS
*Inventor who patented the first revolver [stallion] SAMUELCOLT
Where a teen may wear a tux PROM
Mammal with a miniature trunk TAPIR
Exact godly vengeance on SMITE
Drink aptly found in “medieval era” ALE
Bounce off the walls, say ECHO
Stadium whistle-blower REF
Beef option at Chipotle BARBACOA
Free ones might precede subscriptions TRIALS
SLEEP STAGE REM
BIG NAME IN BASEBALL CARDS TOPPS
MISS PIGGY, TO MISS PIGGY MOI
BEING ENTITY
FERMENTED RICE WINE SAKE
COMPETE (FOR) VIE
“The Little Mermaid” mermaid ARIEL
“Gesundheit” prompter ACHOO
*English essayist who wrote “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once” [ram] CHARLESLAMB
Resident of 123½ Sesame Street BIGBIRD
Kind of salad that sounds like it should include corn COBB
Quartet + quintet NONET
Wild couples cruise? NOAHSARK
Yang’s partner YIN
N.F.L. coach Campbell DAN
Noodles on a guitar STRUMS
Network with “gavel-to-gavel” coverage CSPAN
Word in the title of Broadway’s longest-running show OPERA
Baker’s amts. TSPS
Crispy sammies BLTS
Deserving of a fire emoji, as a party LIT
Many a flat-screen HDTV
PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE TENSE
WINDOW-CLOSING KEY ESC
VODKA BRAND IN A BLUE BOTTLE SKYY
COMES CLEAN OWNSUP
HITS THE SLOPES SKIS
SNATCH NAB
___ RICA COSTA
POKES FUN AT RIBS
HIGH-PITCHED FLUTE PICCOLO
DISCARD TOSS
HISTORICAL OBJECT RELIC
___ czar, N.Y.C. government position whose job listing called for “a virulent vehemence for vermin” RAT
Planets, poetically ORBS
MAKE EXTREMELY HAPPY ELATE
III, IN ROME TRE
Starts to wake STIRS
Treads lightly TIPTOES
What might catch X’s at an O’s game? KISSCAM
*Mouseketeer peer of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake [gander] RYANGOSLING
Certain immature adult ? with a hint to both halves of the answers to each starred clue MANBABY
*Actor who played Oscar Wilde in “Wilde” [fish] STEPHENFRY
Essie competitor OPI