New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Morehouse or Howard, in brief HBCU
___ DHABI ABU
Writings of dubious authenticity APOCRYPHA
Where people typically go to the mat? PORCH
The Second vis-à-vis the First, say SON
FLEET RAPID
WEE ONE TOT
Parts of comedy routines BITS
NEEDLEFISH GAR
Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra TOSCANINI
Geometry calculation: Abbr. VOL
“The rubber people,” in Nahuatl OLMEC
FROST HOAR
“Damage” director Louis MALLE
BOTTOM NADIR
Protective tip on a lace AGLET
9 to 5, e.g. DAYSHIFT
Alliance since 1948, in brief OAS
BOUQUET AROMA
BIG NAME IN HEALTH CARE AETNA
“Catch ya later!” ADIOS
ESCHEW AVOID
Payments made at a table ANTES
Hardly the social butterfly LONER
TAXPAYERS ASSESSEES
Attempt to tear RIPAT
Trojans’ sch. USC
[Variety, 10/30/1929] WALLSTLAYSANEGG
Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol IBM
CALL FROM A CRIB MAMA
Footwear for a sharp dresser? STILETTOS
Wise-appearing OWLISH
TROUBLE WOE
___ thruster (physics lab device) ION
LAPSE SLIP
“Biting” characteristic WIT
CHOICE WORDS ORS
“Victory is mine!,” in modern lingo FORTHEWIN
“Red telephone,” historically HOTLINE
INFORMAL GOODBYE PEACE
FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH RESIN
WASTE AWAY ROT
It might be chewed in a theater SCENERY
WRAPS UP ENDS
The “U” of 60-Down UNION
TOLKIEN TRILOGY, FOR SHORT LOTR
SCHEDULE SLATE
Common saltwater baitfish SHAD
CERTAIN SPOT TVAD
[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975] FORDTOCITYDROPDEAD
SIGNALED CUED
FUND, AS A COLLEGE ENDOW
[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948] DEWEYDEFEATSTRUMAN
Old Scratch, with “the” DEVIL
Carolina Reaper, for one CHILI
Toward the opposing goal, in hockey UPICE
DOLLOPS DABS
T-E-A-M doesn’t have one, so they say ANI
Filmmaker Johnson RIAN
FIRST LADY MCKINLEY IDA
Like the cheese in a grilled cheese MELTED
Drawstring place EYELET
With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983] HEADLESSBODY
Image of Mickey, maybe CEL
Golf’s Slammin’ Sammy SNEAD
BEAMS GRINS
Good name for a geologist? ROCCO
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
Become crunchy in the oven CRISPUP
OLD SPANISH COIN PESETA
FOOL AROUND LOLLYGAG
SLIGHTLY ATAD
Umpire’s ruling SAFE
LEG UP EDGE
Long-term deposit, in brief IRA
CHER AND MADONNA, E.G. ICONS
“___ Mouse,” Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972 SENOR
“My heavens!” IDECLARE
SOME UNDERGRAD DEGS. BAS
THREADBARE WORN
“I’ll get to work right now” ONIT
Wrap one’s head around GET
STOWED LADED
[London Herald, 4/16/1912] TITANICSINKS
RELEASE LETGO
Corrin of “Nosferatu” EMMA
Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush) MBA
MAKE A SCENE ACT
WHOLE BUNCH SCAD
Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed CASSANDRA
SEE 113-ACROSS INTOPLESSBAR
SHORT NOTE? IOU
Monopolist’s trait GREED
___ TUNES LOONEY
Pull some strings? UNKNOT
___ SODA SAL
INSTANT SEC
Popular Hawaiian dish POKE
___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023’s “The Lost Bookshop” EVIE
“How sad” ITSASHAME
SERVING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT TEA
___ NOSTRA COSA
PRIVY TO INON
Breakfast order request OVEREASY
They’re below par BIRDIES
48-oz. beer glass YARD
It once shared a land border with 16 countries USSR
DRINK AFTER A RACE, SAY HYDRATE
Some red or white wines PINOTS
“Jeez Louise!” AWCOMEON
It’s blowin’ in the wind VANE
SERVICE PROVIDERS? PARSONS
Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa NAMIBIA
QUERY ASK
BOILS SEETHES
Breakout performer? ESCAPEE
Latin “Look” ECCE
Headwear that’s stereotypically red FIREHAT
“Jeez, I can’t catch a break” OHME
Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015 ALEXA
“How ya doin’?” SUP
BEL ___ CHEESE PAESE
K-pop septet BTS
Some have meters POEMS
One-pointer in cribbage ACE
POORLY ILL
DRIVES OFF SHOOS
MADE SOME WAVES? OARED
Company once called the California Perfume Company AVON
Lake that’s largely fed by the Detroit River ERIE
LETTERS BEFORE Q LGBT
“The Seduction of Joe ___” (1979 Alan Alda film) TYNAN
PLANTAIN LILY, BY ANOTHER NAME HOSTA
They’re known to open with some jokes APRILS
[The New York Times, 8/9/1974] NIXONRESIGNS
They can support a nest egg TWIGS
MEXICAN MARINADE ADOBO
GO (FOR) OPT
Creature in the final scene of “Cleopatra” ASP
“Scarface” ALCAPONE