New York Times – Jan 30 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| ‘The Great’ magician whose signature trick was the ‘floating light bulb’ |
BLACKSTONE |
| ‘___ cum pretio’ (‘Everything has its price’) |
OMNIA |
| Ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns |
RIGVEDA |
| Announcement carriers, for short |
PAS |
| Bar order after a very hard day, maybe |
DOUBLE |
| Battling |
ATWAR |
| Birds in hieroglyphics |
IBISES |
| Brand with a Gravy Cravers line |
ALPO |
| Cask maker |
COOPER |
| Certain dam |
MARE |
| Clothing company whose mail-order catalog debuted in 1905 |
SPIEGEL |
| Dog command |
SICEM |
| Drift |
TENOR |
| Dry sorts |
ABSTAINERS |
| During |
AMIDST |
| Eastern ties |
OBIS |
| Eric of ‘Hulk’ |
BANA |
| Fidelity competitor |
ETRADE |
| Following the beat? |
ONPATROL |
| Green-light |
SAYYESTO |
| Haggard |
WORNDOWN |
| Hot compress target, perhaps |
STYE |
| Hotel amenity |
POOL |
| Huge stock purchase at the start of a day’s trading |
DAWNRAID |
| Hungarian hunting dog |
VIZSLA |
| Innocent |
WIDEEYED |
| It lacks letters on a telephone keypad |
ONE |
| It might be picked for a song |
UKE |
| Lab vessel |
PIPET |
| Lacking any sides |
ALACARTE |
| Large fern |
BRACKEN |
| Like some rabbit ears |
ALOP |
| Mixing and matching? |
SPEEDDATING |
| One of a trio in a children’s story |
MAMABEAR |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Pandemonium |
BABEL |
| Parenthetical figure, often |
LOSS |
| Parenthetical figures? |
ARCS |
| Prize at the top of a maypole |
WREATH |
| Puffin relative |
AUKLET |
| Quick |
SNAPPY |
| Rehabilitative effort |
THERAPY |
| Renegade and Renaissance, to the Secret Service |
OBAMAS |
| River of myth where one drinks to forget |
LETHE |
| Sackers in the sack of Rome, A.D. 410 |
VISIGOTHS |
| Saggy and crinkled |
CREPEY |
| Shorts popular in the 1920s and ’30s |
OURGANG |
| Some photog purchases |
SLRS |
| Source of buyer’s remorse |
BADDEAL |
| Spent |
WIPED |
| Spy group |
MOSSAD |
| Start of many a dance routine |
CHA |
| Suffix with market |
EER |
| Things bench players need? |
PIANOS |
| Think tank, e.g.: Abbr |
INST |
| Toddler’s handful |
SIPPYCUP |
| Torn |
RENT |
| Tough |
HOOD |
| Traps and yaps |
MAWS |
| Trattoria entree |
VEALMARSALA |
| Treats as in ‘South Park’ or ‘Doonesbury’ |
SATIRIZES |
| Viciously criticizes, informally |
SHREDS |
| Vulgarian |
LOUT |
| What isn’t working? |
METIME |
| Whittles away |
ERODES |
| Worrisome marks in high school? |
ACNE |
| ___ cannon (sci-fi weapon) |
ION |
| ___ Edwards, John Wayne’s role in ‘The Searchers,’ 1956 |
ETHAN |
| ___-Novo (capital on the Gulf of Guinea) |
PORTO |