New York Times 2025 03 11 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Sample sake, say	SIP
___ salmon	SMOKED
They’re mined, all mined!	ORES
Kissing on a park bench, e.g., for short	PDA
“Fingers crossed!”	HOPESO
GIVES A THUMBS-UP	VOTESYES
VEX	EATAT
Pollen producer	STAMEN
“I cannot ___ anybody anything; I can only make them think”: Socrates	TEACH
“Hijack” actor Idris	ELBA
“Nope!”	UHUH
Recruit successfully, as a reluctant participant	ROPEIN
Is nuts for	LOVES
Sunbather’s goal	TAN
Finger foods served on a toothpick, maybe	CANAPES
“Taste the rainbow” candy	SKITTLES
First-person shooter video game franchise	HALO
99% fat-free, say	LEAN
Jazz legend Shaw	ARTIE
Surveillance device, informally	CAM
Road sign with a unidirectional arrow	ONEWAY
Compliment on the green	NICEPUTT
The Blenheim in England, for one	PALACE
Bears’ lairs	DENS
Type of event run by the 1-Across	PROAM
Grasp a central idea	GETTHEPOINT
Ian Fleming figure	SPY
“I.e.,” spelled out	IDEST
Frenchman who developed an anthrax vaccine	PASTEUR
Make noticeable progress	MOVETHENEEDLE
Like some temporary committees	ADHOC
Common cooking oil	CANOLA
Fig. at a body shop	EST
FUNCTIONAL	USABLE
SPOOKY-SOUNDING LAKE	ERIE
Followed the leader	OBEYED
DECORATIVE PILLOWCASE	SHAM
OFFER A THOUGHT	OPINE
SAILING, SAY	ASEA
GAVE IT A GO	TRIED
Traditional Chinese medicine component … in which a practitioner might 3-, 9- and 18-Down?	ACUPUNCTURE
Hermann who wrote “Siddhartha”	HESSE
One side of the political aisle, with “the”	LEFT
Believer in Jah, familiarly	RASTA
Herr Schindler in “Schindler’s List”	OSKAR
“Roll Tide!” school, in brief	BAMA
Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for “The Optimist’s Daughter”	WELTY
Kia S.U.V.	SORENTO
“A pain in the neck,” e.g.	IDIOM
Actor Sean of “Stranger Things”	ASTIN
So-called “windows to the soul”	EYES
Take in the paper?	OPED
Plenty o’	LOTSA
Texter’s “I can’t believe this”	SMH
U.S.’s oldest continuous women’s professional sports org.	LPGA
REEKS	STINKS
PERPLEX	BEMUSE
BETRAY	STABINTHEBACK
A DEER, A FEMALE DEER	DOE
AT THE MOMENT	ASOFNOW
SIGNS OF SPRING	ROSEBUDS
MIDDLING MARK	CEE
MADE A SCENE?	ACTED
TAKE TO THE SKY	AVIATE
“Wowza!”	OMG
“___ soon?”	TOO
Hawaii’s Mauna ___	KEA
GEAR TOOTH	COG
PHOTO ___	OPS
RELINQUISHES	CEDES
HORROR DIRECTOR ROTH	ELI
SIOUX CITY NATIVE	IOWAN
Revolutionary Turner	NAT
Aussie buds	MATES

Sample sake, say

SIP

___ salmon

SMOKED

They’re mined, all mined!

ORES

Kissing on a park bench, e.g., for short

PDA

“Fingers crossed!”

HOPESO

GIVES A THUMBS-UP

VOTESYES