New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2022 09 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Laura of “Big Little Lies” DERN
Grumps CRABS
*Rocket scientist GEOLOGIST
Apocalypse DOOM
Focus of many a law BAN
Cut choice FILET
Consulted for feedback about RANBY
SUBLEASED RELET
DASH DIAL TACH
Many a donor, for short ALUM
“You may disagree, but ?,” to a texter IMHO
Lines on which music is written STAVE
Muscle used in a pull-up, informally TRI
Word between “what” and “that” WAS
*Ballet movements DRIBBLES
“The very ___!” IDEA
Title play character who never shows up GODOT
Longtime Miami Heat great, to fans DWADE
Weekend destination for an N.Y.C. getaway, maybe UPSTATE
Airer of the crime drama “Luther” BBC
*Press junket FAKENEWS
COMPLETE ATOZ
Letters to ___ (rock group) CLEO
Faint pattern TRACING
Tool chain LOWES
“Let’s begin our adventure!” OFFWEGO
Circulation unit READER
POWER WATTAGE
CONFUSE THROW
LEAVE SLACK-JAWED AMAZE
DRAWS ALLURES
Rapper with the 2011 hit album “Ambition” WALE
Website with a Home Favorites page ETSY
WOOD THAT SINKS IN WATER EBONY
BITTER ACRID
PLAYGROUND COMEBACK IAMSO
GREEN-LIT OKED
HUFF SNIT
SEE 102-DOWN TOTTER
ZERO ___ INON
ANCESTOR OF METHUSELAH ENOS
German chancellor Scholz OLAF
Musical whose name is an anagram of the members of a musical CATS
*What’s in your wallet ELECTRICALOUTLET
Hermanos de la madre TIOS
Like Legolas in “The Lord of the Rings” ELFIN
Is grating WEARS
Small table fare? ANTE
Global brand of men’s dress shirts ETON
___ Park, city west of Anaheim BUENA
They’re heard in a chorus AMENS
What the Beatles never did REUNITE
Confidence-building mantra YESICAN
TESLA, FOR ONE SERB
GIVE FOR A TIME LOANOUT
Fountain of youth? KEG
Bird watcher’s org., once NBA
The before-times? EVES
___ MATER ALMA
OFF-LIMITS TABOO
*Security blankets USERNAMEANDPASSWORD
PAIR DYAD
Twitch problem LAG
BIAS SLANT
EXPECTED DUE
CARGO LOAD
TRIMMER RAZOR
STANDS STOMACHS
QVC ALTERNATIVE HSN
MOVED FAST TORE
Author Ellison RALPH
Things with wires, often BRAS
Opera whose title character is a singer TOSCA
“Black Jeopardy!,” for one SNLSKIT
Designation on some pronoun pins THEY
Missouri county on the Arkansas border OZARK
“Schitt’s Creek” role for Sarah Levy TWYLA
Excavated, with “out” HOLLOWED
Auto hobbyist’s project, maybe KITCAR
Start of a literary series BOOKONE
*Barbershop quartet SHAVINGCREAM
Burdens with DUMPSON
Likely to offend, in brief NONPC
IDIOT PEABRAIN
PROFIT NETGAIN
CRUMPLE (UP) WAD
OCCUPY INHABIT
Odd-numbered page, typically RECTO
REEL OFF RECITE
*A drop in the bucket INFLATION
League designation for the Durham Bulls and Salt Lake Bees AAA
HIT HARD BELT
Having South Asian roots DESI
Maker of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game ATARI
Major water source MAIN
SWEETS BABE
John Legend’s “___ Me” ALLOF
Like the head of a badminton racket OVAL
With 104-Down, playground fixture TEETER
Modern reproductive tech inits. IVF
Doesn’t just increase SOARS
___ SCI POLI
Do some backup dancing? TWERK
Good name for an archaeologist? DOUG
Cottoned on (to) GOTWISE
Org. that merged with the 41-Across in the 1970s ABA
LIFESAVER, FOR SHORT EMT
“More or less” SORTA
SUMMERS ON THE SEINE ETES
It’s bad overseas MAL
Some votes in the Bundestag NEINS
OPEN, AS A GIFT UNBOX
QANTAS hub, on luggage tags SYD
Has no plan B ? or, when parsed differently, what each of the starred clues does vis-à-vis its answer? WORKSWITHOUTANET
Stretches of time ERAS
Jennifer Affleck ___ Lopez NEE
Game of who, what and where CLUE
R&B’s India.___ ARIE
SPANISH 101 VERB ESTAR
BUZZING ABOUT ADO
“Chandelier” singer, 2014 SIA
“What’s up, ___?” DOC
Country whose capital is named after an early U.S. president LIBERIA
Sir Isaac Newton work on the fundamentals of light OPTICKS
CHORUS SECTION TENORS
Steps up to the plate BATS
How you should “take me,” in a phrase ASIAM
ACTRESS ___ FLYNN BOYLE LARA
“Here, take this” HAVEIT
PICO DE GALLO INGREDIENT CILANTRO
REASONABLE SANE
Period in curling END
Opera that aptly premiered in Egypt AIDA
Twitch, for instance REACT
Suffix with bad, mad, sad and glad NESS
TAKE IN EAT
POWER (UP) BOOT
One of South Africa’s official languages TSWANA
United hub, on luggage tags SFO
*Ticketmaster EXTERMINATOR