New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 10 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Lubricants used in oil drilling MUDS
Direct flight? BEELINE
“Is it just me ??” AMINUTS
Liszt’s “Transcendental ___” ETUDES
Word before “tip” or after “top” HAT
Letters on old kopecks CCCP
Set against? NAYS
___ Thai (Vietnamese fruit cocktail) CHE
Brother of Lech and Czech in Slavic lore RUS
Zest for life: Abbr. SYN
Lofty passages SKYWAYS
Future D.O.’s exam MCAT
Disgruntled grunts UGHS
Legal V.I.P.s AGS
Insectoid moon dwellers in H.G. Wells’s “The First Men in the Moon” SELENITES
Invite qualifier, for short BYO
What flashers do WARN
Unable to make progress, say HITTINGADEADEND
Verbally backpedaling EATINGONESWORDS
Co-creator and co-star of Netflix’s “The Upshaws” SYKES
Like Mount Terror and Mount Terra Nova ANTARCTIC
Lake ___, body of water spanning four African countries CHAD
Had a side convo on Zoom, e.g. IMED
Doesn’t breathe easy SUCKSWIND
Grammy-winning singer who has recorded in several fictional languages ENYA
Texter’s “off-line” IRL
Un color on El Salvador’s flag AZUL
Approaches, briefly MOS
Took in a bad way POACHED
Polish roll BIALY
Is persuaded of BUYS
Corporate figures LOGOS
Blissful patch EDEN
Pair of accessories? CEES
L.A. museum, with “the” GETTY
TAKES TO HEART HEEDS
DISPLAYED ONVIEW
Plural form of 1-Down, in dialect DESE
Mountain biking move akin to a front wheelie ENDO
No longer being drafted, say SENT
FIND DISCOVERY
PUT DOWN SHAMED
Can’t not, informally GOTTA
Blissful stretch HONEYMOONPERIOD
Melodramatic cry of appreciation MYIDOL
Satisfy a midday craving NOSH
Online home services marketplace ANGI
“Nobody can do this alone” ITTAKESAVILLAGE
Anna ___, first Italian to win an acting Oscar MAGNANI
Character played by Kieron Moore in “David and Bathsheba” (1951) URIAH
“Just made it!” PHEW
“See?” WHATDIDITELLYOU
NARROW PENINSULA SPIT
Calif. school less than an hour’s ride from Tijuana SDSU
Lead follower: Abbr. DET
BOIL DOWN DECOCT
Made it CAME
DONNYBROOK BRAWL
First name in classic horror films LON
GOOD POINT PRO
Little warbler TIT
Ice planet in “The Empire Strikes Back” HOTH
MARS, E.G. WARGOD
ALLY TEAMUP
“It can’t be!” THATSIMPOSSIBLE
SEE 51-DOWN THIS
TAKES FOR A RIDE DRIVES
Chickpea, e.g. SEED
“Well, I’ll be darned!” GEEWHIZ
MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF CITE