New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 16

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