New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Some have meters POEMS
One-pointer in cribbage ACE
MADE SOME WAVES? OARED
Company once called the California Perfume Company AVON
Lake that’s largely fed by the Detroit River ERIE
OLD SPANISH COIN PESETA
SLIGHTLY ATAD
LEG UP EDGE
FIRST LADY MCKINLEY IDA
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
CHER AND MADONNA, E.G. ICONS
PLANTAIN LILY, BY ANOTHER NAME HOSTA
FOOL AROUND LOLLYGAG
Umpire’s ruling SAFE
Golf’s Slammin’ Sammy SNEAD
Image of Mickey, maybe CEL
“___ Mouse,” Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972 SENOR
With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983] HEADLESSBODY
Long-term deposit, in brief IRA
Drawstring place EYELET
Like the cheese in a grilled cheese MELTED
“The Seduction of Joe ___” (1979 Alan Alda film) TYNAN
SOME UNDERGRAD DEGS. BAS
BEAMS GRINS
LETTERS BEFORE Q LGBT
DRIVES OFF SHOOS
POORLY ILL
K-pop septet BTS
They’re known to open with some jokes APRILS
FUND, AS A COLLEGE ENDOW
[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948] DEWEYDEFEATSTRUMAN
Old Scratch, with “the” DEVIL
MEXICAN MARINADE ADOBO
GO (FOR) OPT
Creature in the final scene of “Cleopatra” ASP
They can support a nest egg TWIGS
T-E-A-M doesn’t have one, so they say ANI
DOLLOPS DABS
Toward the opposing goal, in hockey UPICE
Carolina Reaper, for one CHILI
SIGNALED CUED
[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975] FORDTOCITYDROPDEAD
CERTAIN SPOT TVAD
Common saltwater baitfish SHAD
SCHEDULE SLATE
“Scarface” ALCAPONE
BEL ___ CHEESE PAESE
“How ya doin’?” SUP
Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015 ALEXA
“Jeez, I can’t catch a break” OHME
“My heavens!” IDECLARE
Good name for a geologist? ROCCO
Filmmaker Johnson RIAN
Become crunchy in the oven CRISPUP
[The New York Times, 8/9/1974] NIXONRESIGNS
WEE ONE TOT
NEEDLEFISH GAR
Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra TOSCANINI
Geometry calculation: Abbr. VOL
“The rubber people,” in Nahuatl OLMEC
FROST HOAR
Parts of comedy routines BITS
[Variety, 10/30/1929] WALLSTLAYSANEGG
FLEET RAPID
The Second vis-à-vis the First, say SON
Where people typically go to the mat? PORCH
Writings of dubious authenticity APOCRYPHA
Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol IBM
___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023’s “The Lost Bookshop” EVIE
___ DHABI ABU
Morehouse or Howard, in brief HBCU
Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush) MBA
MAKE A SCENE ACT
SEE 113-ACROSS INTOPLESSBAR
SHORT NOTE? IOU
Monopolist’s trait GREED
___ TUNES LOONEY
INSTANT SEC
___ SODA SAL
Pull some strings? UNKNOT
Popular Hawaiian dish POKE
Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed CASSANDRA
WHOLE BUNCH SCAD
Corrin of “Nosferatu” EMMA
RELEASE LETGO
[London Herald, 4/16/1912] TITANICSINKS
STOWED LADED
“I’ll get to work right now” ONIT
THREADBARE WORN
Wrap one’s head around GET
LAPSE SLIP
“Red telephone,” historically HOTLINE
INFORMAL GOODBYE PEACE
FRANKINCENSE OR MYRRH RESIN
WASTE AWAY ROT
WRAPS UP ENDS
The “U” of 60-Down UNION
It might be chewed in a theater SCENERY
“Victory is mine!,” in modern lingo FORTHEWIN
CHOICE WORDS ORS
“Biting” characteristic WIT
___ thruster (physics lab device) ION
TROUBLE WOE
Wise-appearing OWLISH
Footwear for a sharp dresser? STILETTOS
CALL FROM A CRIB MAMA
TOLKIEN TRILOGY, FOR SHORT LOTR
They’re below par BIRDIES
It’s blowin’ in the wind VANE
SERVICE PROVIDERS? PARSONS
Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa NAMIBIA
QUERY ASK
BOILS SEETHES
Breakout performer? ESCAPEE
Latin “Look” ECCE
“Jeez Louise!” AWCOMEON
Some red or white wines PINOTS
DRINK AFTER A RACE, SAY HYDRATE
It once shared a land border with 16 countries USSR
48-oz. beer glass YARD
Breakfast order request OVEREASY
PRIVY TO INON
___ NOSTRA COSA
SERVING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT TEA
“How sad” ITSASHAME
Headwear that’s stereotypically red FIREHAT
BOTTOM NADIR
BIG NAME IN HEALTH CARE AETNA
“Catch ya later!” ADIOS
ESCHEW AVOID
Payments made at a table ANTES
Hardly the social butterfly LONER
BOUQUET AROMA
Alliance since 1948, in brief OAS
9 to 5, e.g. DAYSHIFT
Protective tip on a lace AGLET
TAXPAYERS ASSESSEES
Attempt to tear RIPAT
“Damage” director Louis MALLE
Trojans’ sch. USC