New York Times 2024 08 30 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Many John le Carré characters	SPIES
“Job’s getting done as we speak!”	ONIT
FELLOW	PEER
“Parasite” setting	SEOUL
Animal found on either end of a scale	DOE
Mittens might fiddle with one	CATTOY
Ones used to working from home?	UMPS
Obnoxiously loud	GARISH
They may surround spectacles	RIMS
“The Watercourse Way,” per an Alan Watts title	TAO
Did a jeté	LEAPT
Illusory quality	UNREALITY
Uruguayan cash	PESOS
Traditional Scottish New Year’s gift, representing warmth for the year to come	COAL
Marked Twain?	DOGEARED
Summer snack with a swirl	FROYO
Psyche’s lover, in Greek myth	EROS
Lead-in to stakes	VEEP
“I think so,” in modern shorthand	PROBS
Component of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle	DISK
U.S.M.C. bigwig	NCO
Historic figure grouped with Judas in Dante’s “Inferno”	BRUTUS
Seek reparations	SUE
Title first used by Ivan the Great	TSAR
Occasion for retirement?	PITSTOP
Chicago W.N.B.A. team	SKY
Connoisseur of the finer things	ESTHETE
Gold Bond ingredient, once	TALC
Film character with an iconic gold bikini	LEIA
INCREASE DRAMATICALLY	SOAR
Defiant protester	REFUSENIK
THING OF THE PAST	RELIC
ADVISE AGAINST	DETER
MAKES FAST	TIES
NURSERY PURCHASE	TOPSOIL
SPREAD OUT	SPLAY
INNER SELVES	ANIMAS
Camper’s cover	TARP
Tragic heroine of Irish mythology	DEIRDRE
Snatched, colloquially	YOINKED
Quite blue	OBSCENE
Voyagers, e.g.	PROBES
Portmanteau garments	SKORTS
Alternative to hanging out?	DRYER
DOVE, E.G.	SOAP
SYMBOL OF INDUSTRY	ANT
ACTOR/ACTIVIST DAVIS	OSSIE
DELUXE ACCOMMODATIONS	SUITES
Consideration when donning an off-the-shoulder dress	BRASTRAPS
NEAT ARRANGEMENTS	ROWS
DISGUSTING, SLANGILY	GRODY
HANDLES DIFFERENTLY?	RENAMES
They’re made to measure	RULERS
Genre for Wizkid and Burna Boy	AFROPOP
VINDICTIVENESS	SPITE
Takes for a spin, as a motorcycle	TESTRIDES
Uncommitted sort	FREEAGENT
WAITS ON	SERVES
SPOTTED	SEEN
BABE IN THE WOODS?	OWLET
BACK, AT SEA	AFT
Falco of “The Sopranos”	EDIE
Common browser extension	ADBLOCKER
Robert in “Heat”	DENIRO
Glaring oversight by a writer	PLOTHOLE
Disappear into thin air	GOPOOF
Green-screen tech.	CGI
Opening words of a prayer	DEARGOD
“Don’t ask me again!”	ISAIDNO
SCRAMMED	GOTLOST
Vital hosp. worker	ORNURSE
“Good heavens!”	OHLORD

Many John le Carré characters

SPIES

“Job’s getting done as we speak!”

ONIT

FELLOW

PEER

“Parasite” setting

SEOUL

Animal found on either end of a scale

DOE

Mittens might fiddle with one

CATTOY