New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 20

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