New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Common saltwater baitfish SHAD
Image of Mickey, maybe CEL
Lake that’s largely fed by the Detroit River ERIE
“Red telephone,” historically HOTLINE
[London Herald, 4/16/1912] TITANICSINKS
[The New York Times, 8/9/1974] NIXONRESIGNS
“Catch ya later!” ADIOS
WEE ONE TOT
FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH RESIN
T-E-A-M doesn’t have one, so they say ANI
FLEET RAPID
___ DHABI ABU
BIG NAME IN HEALTH CARE AETNA
[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948] DEWEYDEFEATSTRUMAN
Company once called the California Perfume Company AVON
Wrap one’s head around GET
Popular Hawaiian dish POKE
Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa NAMIBIA
They’re below par BIRDIES
Footwear for a sharp dresser? STILETTOS
“___ Mouse,” Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972 SENOR
Toward the opposing goal, in hockey UPICE
Geometry calculation: Abbr. VOL
“How ya doin’?” SUP
Alliance since 1948, in brief OAS
Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed CASSANDRA
Headwear that’s stereotypically red FIREHAT
Breakout performer? ESCAPEE
It’s blowin’ in the wind VANE
___ thruster (physics lab device) ION
Corrin of “Nosferatu” EMMA
[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975] FORDTOCITYDROPDEAD
“The rubber people,” in Nahuatl OLMEC
“Biting” characteristic WIT
Where people typically go to the mat? PORCH
With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983] HEADLESSBODY
NEEDLEFISH GAR
CALL FROM A CRIB MAMA
ESCHEW AVOID
WRAPS UP ENDS
BEAMS GRINS
PRIVY TO INON
RELEASE LETGO
WASTE AWAY ROT
Golf’s Slammin’ Sammy SNEAD
FOOL AROUND LOLLYGAG
SEE 113-ACROSS INTOPLESSBAR
PLANTAIN LILY, BY ANOTHER NAME HOSTA
CHOICE WORDS ORS
LAPSE SLIP
BOUQUET AROMA
SOME UNDERGRAD DEGS. BAS
POORLY ILL
TROUBLE WOE
DRIVES OFF SHOOS
SCHEDULE SLATE
“Scarface” ALCAPONE
___ NOSTRA COSA
LETTERS BEFORE Q LGBT
FIRST LADY MCKINLEY IDA
SERVING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT TEA
THREADBARE WORN
SLIGHTLY ATAD
QUERY ASK
FROST HOAR
SHORT NOTE? IOU
OLD SPANISH COIN PESETA
Attempt to tear RIPAT
[Variety, 10/30/1929] WALLSTLAYSANEGG
Breakfast order request OVEREASY
Become crunchy in the oven CRISPUP
SERVICE PROVIDERS? PARSONS
LEG UP EDGE
“Jeez Louise!” AWCOMEON
Latin “Look” ECCE
Filmmaker Johnson RIAN
Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush) MBA
The Second vis-à-vis the First, say SON
Old Scratch, with “the” DEVIL
Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015 ALEXA
It might be chewed in a theater SCENERY
Parts of comedy routines BITS
Carolina Reaper, for one CHILI
Good name for a geologist? ROCCO
“How sad” ITSASHAME
Some red or white wines PINOTS
Payments made at a table ANTES
“I’ll get to work right now” ONIT
___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023’s “The Lost Bookshop” EVIE
They’re known to open with some jokes APRILS
Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra TOSCANINI
The “U” of 60-Down UNION
“Damage” director Louis MALLE
Creature in the final scene of “Cleopatra” ASP
Long-term deposit, in brief IRA
It once shared a land border with 16 countries USSR
Drawstring place EYELET
Hardly the social butterfly LONER
Monopolist’s trait GREED
One-pointer in cribbage ACE
“Jeez, I can’t catch a break” OHME
Writings of dubious authenticity APOCRYPHA
“My heavens!” IDECLARE
They can support a nest egg TWIGS
___ SODA SAL
BOILS SEETHES
BOTTOM NADIR
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
MAKE A SCENE ACT
CHER AND MADONNA, E.G. ICONS
SIGNALED CUED
CERTAIN SPOT TVAD
DRINK AFTER A RACE, SAY HYDRATE
Umpire’s ruling SAFE
K-pop septet BTS
Trojans’ sch. USC
DOLLOPS DABS
FUND, AS A COLLEGE ENDOW
Pull some strings? UNKNOT
9 to 5, e.g. DAYSHIFT
STOWED LADED
GO (FOR) OPT
48-oz. beer glass YARD
Wise-appearing OWLISH
WHOLE BUNCH SCAD
INFORMAL GOODBYE PEACE
___ TUNES LOONEY
INSTANT SEC
BEL ___ CHEESE PAESE
MADE SOME WAVES? OARED
TOLKIEN TRILOGY, FOR SHORT LOTR
MEXICAN MARINADE ADOBO
Like the cheese in a grilled cheese MELTED
Protective tip on a lace AGLET
Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol IBM
Some have meters POEMS
“The Seduction of Joe ___” (1979 Alan Alda film) TYNAN
Morehouse or Howard, in brief HBCU
TAXPAYERS ASSESSEES
“Victory is mine!,” in modern lingo FORTHEWIN