New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 03 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
HAD TO PAY OWED
Riyadh-to-Abu Dhabi direction EAST
Slice down the middle BISECT
Wasteland DESERT
SPOILED RUINED
Faith that follows teachings of The Báb BAHAI
Was deeply appreciated MEANTALOT
Some U.S.N. personnel NCOS
DAIRY AISLE PURCHASE EGGS
MER CONTENTS EAU
GIVES THE THUMBS-UP OKS
Nickname that sounds like its first two letters EVIE
Like spaces reserved for compact cars NARROW
Tease / Tease RIBROAST
Like a sheet of dollar bills UNCUT
Potential response to “Look! I colored on the walls!” YOUWHAT
“Bill & ___ Excellent Adventure” TEDS
Two-stringed Chinese instrument ERHU
Raise, maybe BET
Digital boarding pass, e.g. ETICKET
Hockey goalie’s domain CREASE
COMEBACK RETORT
Chevy Bolts and Nissan Leafs, for short EVS
Presale alert? GOINGONCE
Activist known as “the mother of the freedom movement” ROSAPARKS
“Ni-i-ice” SUHWEET
Feints on the ice DEKES
Online market since 2005 ETSY
Soft opening? MICRO
Subj. of “The Silva Mind Control Method” ESP
House of straw, maybe HUT
“Drat!” / “Drat!” CRAPSHOOT
How model trains are built TOSCALE
Heard / Heard GOTCAUGHT
Got busy on SETTO
MANY-STRINGED INSTRUMENT HARP
Zodiac sign transition CUSP
MADE OUT FARED
___ JOKE DAD
Chops evenly, in a way CUBES
WEE ITSY
PLACE PUT
MEAN FIG. AVG
REQUEST TO A BARBER TRIM
It’s true! FACT
Mar contents AGUA
Toilet / Toilet POTHEAD
Rooney ___ of 2022’s “Women Talking” MARA
“Once again ?” IREPEAT
Tricep curls? ARMHAIR
Spaces where people pay to destroy household objects with sledgehammers RAGEROOMS
Word before or after “down” PAT
Purity ring? HALO
Lax LAX option? TSAPRE
Quit / Quit DROPKICK
Sudden, temporary loss of athletic ability, with “the” YIPS
FOOLABLE NAIVE
SEE 20-DOWN HER
Shell propellers OARS
Nora ___ a.k.a. Awkwafina LUM
A. A. Milne’s Baby ___ ROO
“Not my favorite” MEH
Sale, for a retailer AIM
Tries to swat HITSAT
Like a mind that can solve crosswords AGILE
One might be turned down BED
SIGHS OF RELIEF AHS
Word rhymed with “intelligent” in T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” ELEGANT
“Blast!” GAH
What arrows might point at TARGETS
With 45-Across, pronoun pair SHE
Medieval Spanish conqueror ELCID
Hits up privately, in Twitter-speak DMS
READY TO ROLL INGEAR
Tech support service PCHELP
Brillo offering SOAPPAD