New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CRUEL RULER TYRANT
God on a mission? APOLLO
TIME TO DRAW? NOON
CRY FROM HOMER DOH
Novelist Leonard ELMORE
Comme ci, comme ça SOSO
Storyteller’s transition THEN
CODE OF CONDUCT ETHIC
HANDS AND FEET UNITS
CARTOONIST GROENING MATT
Casually chic updo MESSYBUN
Boston College athlete EAGLE
Howard or Spelman: Abbr. HBCU
RODE THE BENCH SAT
Personal struggles personified INNERDEMONS
It’s got a big mouth EWER
“You did great!” NICEWORK
___ Carter, most-recorded jazz bassist in history RON
Noble gas used in propelling ion thrusters XENON
STANDS RISES
Makeup artist? LIAR
Bit of gear for gliding ICESKATE
Its tributaries have colorful names NILE
GOING ___ RATE
CAREFULLY CONSIDER WEIGH
SPENT WORNDOWN
Critics’ picks, informally RECS
Where Life Savers and pop-top cans were both invented OHIO
Prefix with -genarian OCTO
[Violin emoji] OHBOOHOO
FALL SOUND THUD
Cry after a windfall WERERICH
Symbol found in Pac-Man and on slot machines CHERRY
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE? IGLOO
SELLING POINT ASSET
SITARIST SHANKAR RAVI
Source of milk for Manchego cheese EWE
PRINTER BRAND EPSON
1986 ROCK AUTOBIOGRAPHY ITINA
Compete in a freestyle, e.g. SWIM
BACON BITS ESSAYS
Eldest daughter of Oceanus and mother of Nike STYX
Prop (up) SHORE
MOVING COMPANY? TROUPE
Post-Thanksgiving meal drowsiness, familiarly FOODCOMA
SLIPS INTO DONS
Name on an envelope SENDER
Deciding contest RUNOFF
“Jingle Bells” contraction OER
European airline that was nationalized from 1944 to 2001 IBERIA
World’s rarest goose NENE
Stand-up person? NOSHOW
Jardín contents FLORES
Drink brand that sounds like a shout YOOHOO
Act bullish? SNORT
Musical whose preshow warning about cellphone use says that knights ?may drag you onstage and impale you? SPAMALOT
BROOD MOPE
Check box in a survey OTHER
Trancelike state during a monotonous drive HIGHWAYHYPNOSIS
Antivenoms, e.g. SERA
“Getting ___ is no problem. You just have to live long enough”: Groucho Marx OLDER
Boston Harbor detritus, once TEAS
HIT, IN A WAY TOKE
Ones in a waiting room PATIENTS
INFORMED OF UPON
Suboptimal ending SOURNOTE
Cowboy Bill PECOS
Coy response to a compliment ARENTI
First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth ENOS
Original tablet holder ARK
Louisiana ___, religion with West African roots VOODOO
“I want to, but really I shouldn’t …” DONTTEMPTME