New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“Excuse me while I light my ___” (Bob Marley lyric) SPLIFF
Theater backers? SCRIMS
HO-HUM PROSAIC
11-sided coin, informally LOONIE
“Damn right!” HELLYEAH
NOT LEARNED INNATE
Word shortened from a three-word phrase that can be further shortened by dropping its first, fourth and fifth letters EMCEE
Very much in HOT
Narragansett Bay and New York Harbor, for two RIAS
BROADCAST ALTERNATIVE CABLE
Labor demand? PUSH
Numbers after a no. EXT
“The Swedish Sphinx” GARBO
UNCANNY EERIE
Coupons, e.g. MONEYSAVERS
Embellish something unnecessarily GILDTHELILY
RUSHED INAHURRY
FOOLISH UNWISE
GIANT SYLLABLE FIE
KEY CHAIN ISLES
CELL DIVISION MITOSIS
ROUTINE ACT
ASIAN APPETIZER SATAY
Locale of van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” paintings ARLES
Ones calling the shots, in brief? MDS
Ending with cyclo- TRON
Harsh lighting? ARSON
Component of a Zoom call VIDEO
Dig, say FANCY
“Tough cookies” TOOBAD
Bronze finish, maybe SPRAYTAN
Skeptical look SIDEEYE
Takes a little hair off, perhaps SINGES
Basketball, e.g. SPHERE
Get ready, as concrete PREMIX
Meme creature LOLCAT
She played Bonnie in 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” FAYE
Common golf mistake SLICE
It might receive scoops CONE
The anchorman in “Anchorman” RON
Permit required of old jazz musicians CABARETCARD
Preoccupations HOBBYHORSES
They come full circle CLOSEDLOOPS
Risk for people with braces CANDY
Key’s partner PEELE
Word after good or by GOLLY
Weariness, vice and want, in Voltaire’s “Candide” EVILS
Where most of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are stored MILAN
___ Ehrenreich, Han Solo’s portrayer in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” ALDEN
LEVEL STATUS
POPULAR BIG
1909 Nobelist for contributions to the invention of radio MARCONI
One getting schooled MENTEE
Goes radioactive? DECAYS
N.S.A. surveillance program that shares its name with an entity in the “Terminator” movies SKYNET
Supposed subject of Taylor Swift’s “Dear John” MAYER
Potter’s product VASE
Fall behind in the end FADE
Swish miss? RIM
“Knock yourself out!” GOTOTOWN
SECONDS AIDES
ACQUIESCENT MEEK
MINIMAL MEREST
BOIL SEETHE
BABY MOLLYCODDLE
BALL GAME BOCCE