New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Crispy sammies BLTS
Auction bundle LOT
WINDOW-CLOSING KEY ESC
Deserving of a fire emoji, as a party LIT
Word before date or dance RAIN
Kind of salad that sounds like it should include corn COBB
COMPETE (FOR) VIE
Quartet + quintet NONET
Mammal with a miniature trunk TAPIR
Exact godly vengeance on SMITE
Certain immature adult ? with a hint to both halves of the answers to each starred clue MANBABY
SNATCH NAB
Drink aptly found in “medieval era” ALE
SIGN BEFORE VIRGO LEO
SLEEP STAGE REM
BEING ENTITY
MISS PIGGY, TO MISS PIGGY MOI
PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE TENSE
One under a birdie EAGLE
Worn-down part of a shoe SOLE
San Fran athlete NINER
Where a teen may wear a tux PROM
*Mouseketeer peer of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake [gander] RYANGOSLING
Noodles on a guitar STRUMS
Resident of 123½ Sesame Street BIGBIRD
*Actor who played Oscar Wilde in “Wilde” [fish] STEPHENFRY
FERMENTED RICE WINE SAKE
Makes (oneself) beloved ENDEARS
HITS THE SLOPES SKIS
Network with “gavel-to-gavel” coverage CSPAN
Pepper and O’Leary of classic rock: Abbr. SGTS
Free ones might precede subscriptions TRIALS
RENT OUT LET
Starting point for a record-setting swim in 2023’s “Nyad” CUBA
Beef option at Chipotle BARBACOA
Starts to wake STIRS
___ RICA COSTA
Stadium whistle-blower REF
What might catch X’s at an O’s game? KISSCAM
Many a flat-screen HDTV
New, waxing, waning, full, etc. PHASES
“Gesundheit” prompter ACHOO
Immobilizers for bone fractures SPLINTS
Word in the title of Broadway’s longest-running show OPERA
Planets, poetically ORBS
Bounce off the walls, say ECHO
POKES FUN AT RIBS
HIGH-PITCHED FLUTE PICCOLO
*Inventor who patented the first revolver [stallion] SAMUELCOLT
Japan’s national fish KOI
FUEL FROM A BOG PEAT
GROUP OF ANTS ARMY
___ czar, N.Y.C. government position whose job listing called for “a virulent vehemence for vermin” RAT
Watery, as tea WEAK
Frequently phished figs. SSNS
___ vs. para (Spanish 101 topic) POR
Wild couples cruise? NOAHSARK
Yang’s partner YIN
HISTORICAL OBJECT RELIC
Baker’s amts. TSPS
Journalists’ credits BYLINES
Essie competitor OPI
*English essayist who wrote “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once” [ram] CHARLESLAMB
HOSP. AREAS ERS
III, IN ROME TRE
Bit of Tex-Mex bar food TACO
STICKY STUFF GOO
VODKA BRAND IN A BLUE BOTTLE SKYY
“The Little Mermaid” mermaid ARIEL
Risky choice of surfing apparel BIKINI
DISCARD TOSS
BIG NAME IN BASEBALL CARDS TOPPS
MAKE EXTREMELY HAPPY ELATE
A spare one might be kept in the boot TYRE
Pigment used in the Lascaux cave paintings OCHER
N.F.L. coach Campbell DAN
Treads lightly TIPTOES
COMES CLEAN OWNSUP