New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 08 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Epic backdrop, maybe WAR
Initial tentative attempt FORAY
Jamie Lee Curtis or Neve Campbell, notably SCREAMQUEEN
Really loses one’s cool GOESNUCLEAR
Some skintight clothing SHAPERS
Coal miner’s discovery SEAM
Josh who voices Olaf in “Frozen” GAD
Lunes, e.g. DIA
One might be “slippery” ELM
“A deal’s a deal!” NOBACKSIES
Planned Parenthood doc OBGYN
The “1” in 8-8-1, e.g. TIE
River through Glasgow CLYDE
Mark as important, in a way STAR
You! All of you! SOLVERS
CRY FOR HELP SOS
MATCH UP AGREE
“True Detective” and “The Wire,” for two HBODRAMAS
“Hold please”? INEEDAHUG
What lions can do that pumas cannot ROAR
ThinkPads, originally IBMS
___ anglaise (rich custard) CREME
Toaster’s opening HERES
“Get me?” YAFEEL
Fashions out of whatever’s lying around MACGYVERS
Randall’s elder daughter on “This Is Us” TESS
Goes down the drain, perhaps EDDIES
Thinks (on) NOODLES
One-named poet from the 13th century RUMI
Like Medina, Saudi Arabia, vis-à-vis Medina, Ohio HOLIER
So-called “king of the Egyptian gods” AMONRA
Scouting gatherings CAMPOREES
Low-cost lager from Anheuser-Busch, familiarly NATTYICE
Worked on a collapsible table, say IRONED
App audience USERS
Stretcher bearers? YOGAMATS
In Buffalo, it’s a faux pas to order this with Buffalo wings RANCH
Hit Netflix show whose pilot episode is titled “Red Light, Green Light” SQUIDGAME
Stanley of “Julie & Julia” TUCCI
Eleven in Las Vegas RAIDERS
Something shown to a rude houseguest DOOR
Reason one might read a “Speed Hump” sign and laugh DIRTYMIND
Forsythia, for one SHRUB
Grown in ___ (brand of frozen French fries) IDAHO
One might clean up lots of toys DOGGROOMER
“___ Agua Para Chocolate” (hit 1992 foreign-language film) COMO
God slain by his brother, then resurrected by his wife OSIRIS
Animal also known as a pygmy chimpanzee BONOBO
Something that’s good to do a 180 on? LSAT
These, in French CES
Verbally waver HAW
Ireland’s second-best-selling musical act after U2 ENYA
Buttress, with “up” SHORE
MISTREATMENT ABUSE
PORTUGUESE TITLE SAO
___ PUFFS REESES
Often-bracketed bit of Latin SIC
SPAT ROW
SEA BED? BERTH
FRUSTRATED CRY ARGH
SPARKLES GLEAMS
SURVEY UNIT ACRE
RUSTIC WOODSY
SENDS TO HELL DAMNS
Nonstop flight? STAIRMASTER
FRUSTRATED CRY ACK
Eschew the subway, say UBER
Potatoes, in Indian cuisine ALOO