New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FISHING NET TRAWL
MAKE A MISTAKE ERR
BOTTOM OF A BOAT KEEL
Chocolate confection with a molten core LAVACAKE
Middle of a classic boast from Caesar ISAW
SMIDGEN IOTA
TIKI BAR DRINK MAITAI
“Well, lah-di-___” DAH
Made an irreverently sarcastic comment SNARKED
Crooner Mel who was called “The Velvet Fog” TORME
“Phooey!” NERTS
Part of a decent-sized plot ACRE
Cleric’s title, for short REV
?Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it”: Richard Feynman SEX
Afghan’s place ASIA
Partner of “ceases” DESISTS
Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection “Exhalation” CHIANG
Remove the fastenings from UNBIND
Common sight along the Norwegian coast FJORD
Winter item on a car’s roof rack SKI
Signature Obama achievement, in brief ACA
Held on (to) CLUNG
Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses? HALFBAKED
Effect of secondhand pot smoke CONTACTHIGH
Uber-fan STAN
Tools for fireplaces POKERS
Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297) RBIS
Mindfulness-based practice ZEN
Army squad leaders: Abbr. SSGTS
Rudely “welcome” the away team JEER
Evidence of a day at the beach BIKINITAN
Shakespeare’s “___ of Athens” TIMON
SMALL RECESS NOOK
“Given the way things appear ?” ASITIS
SPLEEN IRE
Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film MADMAX
Courtier who oversees Hamlet’s duel with Laertes OSRIC
UNIMPORTANT THINGS TRIFLES
Member of a powerful ruling elite OLIGARCH
B-baller in California LALAKER
Largest Chinese ethnic group HAN
___-Carlton (hotel chain) RITZ
Patch things up, say? SEW
Mail inits. since 1971 USPS
Flight of fancy WILDIDEA
Presided over a roast, say EMCEED
Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels ASLAN
Big name in pharmacies CVS
One of Islam’s Five Pillars HAJ
Inits. before a nickname AKA
“___ Maria” AVE
EVENING PARTY SOIREE
Funereal compositions DIRGES
N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym KRAKEN
Dunkable edible DONUT
SMALL SONGBIRD TIT
ALTIMA MAKER NISSAN
DEGRADE ABASE
NOBELIST WIESEL ELIE
DRILL (INTO) BORE
LETTUCE OR CABBAGE MOOLA
“___ takers?” ANY
Where it’s at VENUE
“Toy Story” boy ANDY
Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally STACHE
CHIP IN ADD
12/24 OR 12/31 EVE
Belligerent, in British slang AGGRO
German “Geez!” ACH
Swiss founder of analytical psychology CARLJUNG
Like “three men” of nursery rhyme INATUB
MILES AWAY AFAR
SPANISH GIRLFRIEND AMIGA
IN A DEADPAN MANNER DRILY
LETHAL DEADLY
MALE ADMIRER BEAU