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
[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
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 New York Times, 8/9/1974] NIXONRESIGNS
Where people typically go to the mat? PORCH
[London Herald, 4/16/1912] TITANICSINKS
With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983] HEADLESSBODY
Breakfast order request OVEREASY
Image of Mickey, maybe CEL
DRIVES OFF SHOOS
Become crunchy in the oven CRISPUP
WRAPS UP ENDS
___ NOSTRA COSA
BEAMS GRINS
FIRST LADY MCKINLEY IDA
TROUBLE WOE
CALL FROM A CRIB MAMA
Golf’s Slammin’ Sammy SNEAD
FOOL AROUND LOLLYGAG
BIG NAME IN HEALTH CARE AETNA
SEE 113-ACROSS INTOPLESSBAR
PLANTAIN LILY, BY ANOTHER NAME HOSTA
CHOICE WORDS ORS
BOUQUET AROMA
___ DHABI ABU
LAPSE SLIP
POORLY ILL
WASTE AWAY ROT
“Biting” characteristic WIT
FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH RESIN
ESCHEW AVOID
“The rubber people,” in Nahuatl OLMEC
FROST HOAR
Headwear that’s stereotypically red FIREHAT
PRIVY TO INON
LETTERS BEFORE Q LGBT
[Variety, 10/30/1929] WALLSTLAYSANEGG
QUERY ASK
SLIGHTLY ATAD
THREADBARE WORN
SERVING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT TEA
“How ya doin’?” SUP
Attempt to tear RIPAT
SHORT NOTE? IOU
SERVICE PROVIDERS? PARSONS
NEEDLEFISH GAR
WEE ONE TOT
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
SCHEDULE SLATE
“How sad” ITSASHAME
OLD SPANISH COIN PESETA
Payments made at a table ANTES
“I’ll get to work right now” ONIT
“Scarface” ALCAPONE
RELEASE LETGO
Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra TOSCANINI
The “U” of 60-Down UNION
FLEET RAPID
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
TAXPAYERS ASSESSEES
“My heavens!” IDECLARE
___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023’s “The Lost Bookshop” EVIE
LEG UP EDGE
___ SODA SAL
BOILS SEETHES
BOTTOM NADIR
They’re known to open with some jokes APRILS
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
MAKE A SCENE ACT
CHER AND MADONNA, E.G. ICONS
DOLLOPS DABS
FUND, AS A COLLEGE ENDOW
STOWED LADED
GO (FOR) OPT
CERTAIN SPOT TVAD
DRINK AFTER A RACE, SAY HYDRATE
Pull some strings? UNKNOT
“Jeez Louise!” AWCOMEON
Umpire’s ruling SAFE
K-pop septet BTS
Latin “Look” ECCE
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
Good name for a geologist? ROCCO
MEXICAN MARINADE ADOBO
Like the cheese in a grilled cheese MELTED
Protective tip on a lace AGLET
Some red or white wines PINOTS
Some have meters POEMS
“The Seduction of Joe ___” (1979 Alan Alda film) TYNAN
Morehouse or Howard, in brief HBCU
SOME UNDERGRAD DEGS. BAS
SIGNALED CUED
“Damage” director Louis MALLE
They can support a nest egg TWIGS
9 to 5, e.g. DAYSHIFT
Trojans’ sch. USC
TOLKIEN TRILOGY, FOR SHORT LOTR
“Victory is mine!,” in modern lingo FORTHEWIN
Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol IBM