New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 03 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Prop ___ PLANE
___ hook (device attached to a rope or cable) GRAPPLING
Shape of the border between yin and yang ESS
It’s simultaneously attractive and repulsive MANET
PHOTOGRAPHER GOLDIN NAN
Packaging cords TWINS
CAME CLEAN? BATHED
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON TEETHER
Band whose name is a rhyme scheme ABA
Big name in fruit juice, or the first three letters of the fruit in it POM
PERSONAL OWN
Line of questioning? WHYISIT
SLIPPERY EELY
COMES TO TOTALS
EXTREME PAIN AGONY
Narrative arc POT
Two-point play in American football SAFETY
WORD ON A SHOPPE SIGN ODE
What a daredevil might go without NET
Word after second or before split BANANA
Longtime host Robert of NPR’s “All Things Considered” SIEGEL
“Twister” star Bill PAXTON
DERBY ENTRY COT
Is too overwhelmed with emotion to speak CANTEEN
Oscar-winning Michelle YEOH
What “E” on a gauge means ADDFUEL
Vaping implement ECIG
Some flight tracker data, for short EDS
HURT BADLY MAIM
Some painkillers OPIATES
Warning letters before a link NSFW
MARITIME HAZARD REF
W-9 nine: Abbr. SSN
SHOWY ORATE
Risen from the ashes REBORN
MONT BLANC, PAR EXEMPLE APE
___ Rebellion (19th-century Chinese conflict) TAPING
WALKS LEISURELY MOSEYS
Follower of Robespierre, in 18th-century France JACOBIN
GO IN CIRCLES GRATE
Spinoff of a popular lecture series TEX
“Nebraska” actor Bruce DERN
EXCEPT IF UNLESS
GENDER ABBR. FEM
Big name in Western wear STETSON
SMIDGEN TAD
One of two, in this clue ANAPEST
Puns and anagrams, e.g. WORDPLAY
PANTHEON OF NORSE GODS AESIR
“At a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is needed”: Frederick Douglass IRONY
MID-VOYAGE ASA
Milliners’ decorations HATBANDS
Super Mario character also known as King Koopa BOWSER
“Don’t take offense,” nowadays NOSHADE
Retort that sounds like a “Star Wars” character ARETOO
“___ funny ?” (the most exciting phrase to hear in science, per Isaac Asimov) THATS
Course with a name derived from the French word for “clear the table” DESSERT
Rockefeller Plaza muralist SERT
NEIGHBOR OF PAKISTAN IAN
BIT OF SMACK TALK DIS
Mama’s mama NANA
16 years, for Little League Baseball AGELIMIT
On the safe side, nautically ALE
IPHONE SPEAKER? SRI
Pompous “I” ROYALE
Armada vessel GALLON
Shortened name on a Pelicans jersey NOLA
WORN DOWN ERODED
Go-ahead responses NOS
Well-connected grp.? OPEC
Nike’s swoosh or McDonald’s golden arches LOO
One tapped by leadership? SIR
Encryption code, in computer science lingo HASH
Sydneysider’s salutation GDAYMATES
STAYED HOME FOR DINNER ATEIN
Site-seeing need? URL
Beers advertised with the slogan “La vida más fina” CORONAS
Members of a tough crowd, perhaps BOOERS
N.Y.C. neighborhood where the Cronut was invented SHO
Emperor with a statue outside the Colosseum NERO
Hockey goal scored by deflecting an incoming puck TIPIN
ATHLETIC COMPETITIONS METS
What might fill you up after you fill up GASSTATIONFOOD
TEMPER MOOD
Lead-in to a stark reality FACTIS
FOLLOWING POSSE
STILLNESS REPOSE
Malty craft beer RYEIPA
GODDESS OF THE DAWN EOS
VERIFIABLE TRE
“Good grief!” MYGOD
Set new records, say, informally DJED
FIGHTING ATT
American patriot Thomas PAINE
Single-player and multiplayer, for two GAMEMODES
Spanish “when” CUANDO
CAPITAL OF EAST TIMOR DILI
Knight’s need STEED
SEND TRANSMIT
PART OF AN UNDERGROUND NETWORK ROOT
NOT QUITE YET SON
Like much limestone GAY
COMEDIAN PHILIPS EMO
FORMICARY RESIDENTS ANTS
Popular wood for American whiskey barrels until a 20th-century blight ELM
Hard court tournament USOPEN
TAKE A BREATHER SITONEOUT
Author of the “Goosebumps” series RLSTINE
TRIES HASAGO
Star witness? SPACETELESCOPE
MOVE GINGERLY ESE
Binary pronoun options HEORSHE
SALTWATER MARINE
VIRGIL EPIC AENEID
Apt letters missing from “Te_h_ology r_view si_e” CNET
CAME (FROM) EMANATED
Parliamentary conservatives TORIES
Winged pest GAT
Actress Carrie of HBO’s “The Leftovers” CON
Points the finger at IDS
___ pants (loose-fitting garb) HAREM
Sloth, e.g. SIN
Sloth, e.g. ANIMAL
H.S. exams taken for college credit APS
Fun romance FLING
TOWN BUG
EQUAL PER
Actor Sebastian ___ of the “Avengers” movies STAN
Letter-shaped dress style ALINE
Makes mincemeat of GRIDS
GONE BY PAST
Cuisine style that’s kept simmering at the table HOTPOT
All-encompassing prefix OMNI
Sacred bird of Egyptian mythology IBIS
The humanities, traditionally ARTSANDLETTERS
Tidy way to color ? and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? INSIDETHELINES
Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS
Expecting, informally PREGO
DRIVER MOTORIST
Some Bay Area athletes, familiarly NINERS
Approximate weight of a subcompact car or a medium-size giraffe ONETON
Mafiosi MADEMEN
Filmmaker John who directed the “Thriller” music video LANDIS
Modest bouquet PSY
MEMO HEADER ATTN