New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Common saltwater baitfish SHAD
Lake that’s largely fed by the Detroit River ERIE
“Red telephone,” historically HOTLINE
“Catch ya later!” ADIOS
T-E-A-M doesn’t have one, so they say ANI
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
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
Where people typically go to the mat? PORCH
[The New York Times, 8/9/1974] NIXONRESIGNS
With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983] HEADLESSBODY
[London Herald, 4/16/1912] TITANICSINKS
Golf’s Slammin’ Sammy SNEAD
FOOL AROUND LOLLYGAG
WRAPS UP ENDS
SEE 113-ACROSS INTOPLESSBAR
BEAMS GRINS
PLANTAIN LILY, BY ANOTHER NAME HOSTA
CHOICE WORDS ORS
BOUQUET AROMA
___ DHABI ABU
POORLY ILL
TROUBLE WOE
Breakfast order request OVEREASY
FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH RESIN
WEE ONE TOT
DRIVES OFF SHOOS
Image of Mickey, maybe CEL
LAPSE SLIP
“Scarface” ALCAPONE
___ NOSTRA COSA
LETTERS BEFORE Q LGBT
FIRST LADY MCKINLEY IDA
ESCHEW AVOID
CALL FROM A CRIB MAMA
OLD SPANISH COIN PESETA
FROST HOAR
PRIVY TO INON
Become crunchy in the oven CRISPUP
WASTE AWAY ROT
QUERY ASK
SLIGHTLY ATAD
THREADBARE WORN
SERVICE PROVIDERS? PARSONS
SHORT NOTE? IOU
LEG UP EDGE
FUND, AS A COLLEGE ENDOW
SERVING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT TEA
Attempt to tear RIPAT
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
“Biting” characteristic WIT
“How sad” ITSASHAME
Some red or white wines PINOTS
Payments made at a table ANTES
“I’ll get to work right now” ONIT
“The rubber people,” in Nahuatl OLMEC
[Variety, 10/30/1929] WALLSTLAYSANEGG
Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra TOSCANINI
The “U” of 60-Down UNION
“How ya doin’?” SUP
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
NEEDLEFISH GAR
“My heavens!” IDECLARE
They can support a nest egg TWIGS
___ SODA SAL
BOILS SEETHES
BOTTOM NADIR
FLEET RAPID
DOLLOPS DABS
SCHEDULE SLATE
STOWED LADED
GO (FOR) OPT
Good name for a geologist? ROCCO
They’re known to open with some jokes APRILS
CERTAIN SPOT TVAD
DRINK AFTER A RACE, SAY HYDRATE
“Damage” director Louis MALLE
MAKE A SCENE ACT
CHER AND MADONNA, E.G. ICONS
Umpire’s ruling SAFE
K-pop septet BTS
Pull some strings? UNKNOT
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
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
RELEASE LETGO
MEXICAN MARINADE ADOBO
Like the cheese in a grilled cheese MELTED
Protective tip on a lace AGLET
“Jeez Louise!” AWCOMEON
Some have meters POEMS
“The Seduction of Joe ___” (1979 Alan Alda film) TYNAN
Morehouse or Howard, in brief HBCU
TAXPAYERS ASSESSEES
___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023’s “The Lost Bookshop” EVIE
SOME UNDERGRAD DEGS. BAS
9 to 5, e.g. DAYSHIFT
“Victory is mine!,” in modern lingo FORTHEWIN
TOLKIEN TRILOGY, FOR SHORT LOTR
Trojans’ sch. USC
SIGNALED CUED
Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol IBM