New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sort who might be testing the waters MARINEBIOLOGIST
Rock band with the 2023 album “This Stupid World” YOLATENGO
Org. associated with interceptions NSA
LUG APE
BIT OF FISH FOOD PELLET
Detective story? ALIBI
James Clavell best seller “___-Pan” TAI
Tabbies, e.g. HOUSECATS
Post-op persona, perhaps NEWME
A word before we forget? LEST
PLACE STEAD
Esther of “Good Times” ROLLE
Fleece “wearer” EWE
Rapper Aubrey Graham, who’s known professionally by his middle name DRAKE
Wordle and others FADS
Things typically copied-and-pasted ? rather than typed manually ? in messages URLS
Basketball legend Thomas ISIAH
French word in vineyards CRU
Word on either side of “to” ASHES
Key to understanding ancient history? THEROSETTASTONE
Hot bed? RICE
Having down pat ADEPTAT
Like some drinks and injuries ICED
What you might use to play music on a beach WIRELESSSPEAKER
Find ___ (Nintendo minigame) MII
Christmas carol title starter OCOME
Contemporary artist Carrie ___ Weems MAE
Where to make one’s voice heard, with “the” POLLS
TOOK A HIT TOKED
The Haitian Revolution and the Aponte Conspiracy of 1812, e.g. SLAVEREBELLIONS
Umami enhancer MSG
Modern coinage for someone turned successful through their celebrity parents NEPOBABY
Republicans in the 1850s, typically ABOLITIONISTS
Gives, but not for good LENDS
Certain religious ruling FATWA
“This is dear mercy, and thou ___ it not”: “Romeo and Juliet” SEEST
Remittance recipients PAYEES
Relative of a filly COLT
In the Red, say ASEA
Like water in a stream AFLOW
Stand-up comedians, typically SOLOACTS
Inits. before Queen Elizabeth HMS
Bit of farm food OAT
Good thing to have on the record WIN
W.W. II combat inits. ETO
One who’s left holding the bag? CADDIE
Verbally lose it, with “out” LASH
Kind of rescue search AIRSEA
Woman’s name with an accent on its fourth letter RENEE
With 50-Down, many people making downloads APP
FAIL UNDER PRESSURE CHOKE
SEE 57-DOWN USERS
Butts (in) NOSES
___ SYSTEM CASTE
Like roughly one-eighth of the U.S. population AFRICANAMERICAN
Grams NANAS
“___ alert” STAY
HAMMER HOME? EAR
MAP OF HAWAII, OFTEN INSET
Title in D.C.: Abbr. REP
Dessert with layers SPUMONI
HONEYDEW PRODUCER APHID
SHERPAS, E.G. ASIANS
INVENTOR OF THE STEEL PLOW DEERE
Be ripe SMELL
Music score abbr. CRESC
SUFFIX WITH PRESS URE
FEUDAL SUPERIORS LIEGES
Great fall DIVE
MAKE ___ OF ANOTE