New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 07 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Acts like one’s true self, colloquially KEEPSITREAL
PRICKLY PLANT BRIAR
JOIN THE ARMY ENLIST
Hot chocolate holder MUG
BLUEPRINT PLAN
Optometrists check them EYES
Get one’s story straight? EDIT
UNRETURNED SERVE ACE
Lady ___ (“Shallow” singer) GAGA
HARSH CRITICISM FLAK
OPERA SET IN EGYPT AIDA
Defeat soundly, in slang SPANK
UNDERSTAND GET
APPEARED TO BE SEEMED
QUITE PLEASED WITH ONESELF SMUG
Like all leap years EVEN
Brushes away, as a fly SHOOS
What the KonMari Method leaves you with LESS
Explain something in steps BREAKITDOWN
“I wish I could ___ that” (“Ew!”) UNSEE
Org. defending individual rights ACLU
Was understated in one’s description PUTITMILDLY
Sticky yellow squares … or a description of the circled letters and what they follow? POSTITNOTES
Rise to one’s feet STAND
Where low-rise jeans sit HIPS
Tossed and turned LOSTSLEEP
Secures, as wrapping paper TAPES
Tail end of a lion’s tail TUFT
Lasagna-hitting-the-floor sound SPLAT
BLUISH GREEN TEAL
DRIVE AWAY REPEL
ONE DIRECTION EAST
Follow the ___ (kids’ game) LEADER
WENT BY BIKE RODE
SOAK (UP) SOP
Baby’s garment ONESIE
FREELOADING SORT MOOCH
Cook with direct heat BROIL
Workout break REST
Crazy talent, slangily MADSKILLS
Mani-___ (spa treatment) PEDI
Like talking with one’s mouth full RUDE
Stone Age diet, familiarly PALEO
Bird that’s still getting wise to the world? OWLET
Partner of greet MEET
Tupperware tops LIDS
Reaction to seeing the Northern Lights, perhaps AWE
“Up in arms” or “break a leg” IDIOM
“Where ___ go wrong?” DIDWE
INDIAN FLATBREAD ROTI
NARROW VALLEY GLEN
LITTLE DEVIL IMP
SMOKED SALMON NOVA
MAKEUP USED TO COLOR THE CHEEKS ROUGE
WRINKLY-SKINNED FRUIT UGLI
EARTH DAY MONTH APRIL
GODDESS OF THE DAWN EOS
“Young Frankenstein” assistant IGOR
ACADEMIC HURDLES TESTS
SQUEAKS (BY) EKES
CORN CAKE PONE
NORTHERNMOST COUNTRY IN AFRICA TUNISIA
R&B singer with the 2006 #1 hit “So Sick” NEYO
POEMS OF PRAISE ODES
Stuck, with no easy way down UPATREE
Stuck, with no easy way out INASPOT
Place for un béret TETE
Star assigners RATERS
Collections of poker bets POTS
WEAR A LONG FACE MOPE
ARTERY OPENER STENT
The Bruins of the N.C.A.A. UCLA
NAVAL FLEET ARMADA
SPRINGSTEEN, TO FANS THEBOSS
MARVIN OF MOTOWN GAYE
EARLY PC PLATFORM MSDOS