New York Times – Mar 3 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘50% off’ and ‘Sorry, we’re closed’ |
STORESIGNS |
| ‘Haven’t heard a thing’ |
NONEWS |
| ‘Seriously’ |
IMEANIT |
| ‘Stop that!’ |
QUITIT |
| America’s Cup, for one |
EWER |
| Anne, par exemple: Abbr |
STE |
| Aviation-related prefix |
AERO |
| Bark up the wrong tree |
ERR |
| Big U.S. import |
OIL |
| Blacksmiths’ needs |
ANVILS |
| Bring in |
NET |
| Cargo unit |
TON |
| Certain geek |
FANGIRL |
| Challenges |
TESTS |
| Dichromatic fad of the 1950s |
TWOTONECARS |
| Dressed neatly and fashionably |
LOOKINGSHARP |
| Early Japanese P.M. Hirobumi ___ |
ITO |
| Explanatory words |
ASIN |
| Field of competition, for short? |
ECON |
| Film director from whose work the word ‘paparazzi’ is derived |
FELLINI |
| First first family of Alaska |
EGANS |
| Five-time Rose Bowl winner, for short |
UCLA |
| Fixed |
SET |
| Floating |
WAFTING |
| Got nothing back from? |
ACED |
| Gridiron scandal of 2015, informally |
DEFLATEGATE |
| Hail |
LAUD |
| Having no legal force |
NULL |
| Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score |
ENHARMONIC |
| High-tech home gadget company |
THFNATURALERIMAGE |
| Home to many stuffed animals |
MUSEUMOFNATURALHISTORY |
| Hunk |
SLAB |
| In times of yore |
AGO |
| Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___ |
ABE |
| Kind of pool |
GENE |
| Let stand in water again |
RESOAK |
| Library penalty |
LATEFEE |
| M.A. hopeful’s hurdle |
GRE |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Map abbr. before 1991 |
SSR |
| Mill runoff |
SLAG |
| Mo |
SEC |
| Neighbor of Mont |
IDA |
| Nook, e.g |
EREADER |
| One added to the staff? |
MUSICALNOTE |
| One adept with a deck |
CAREFLAT |
| Pastoral setting |
LEA |
| Personally speaking, in a text |
IMO |
| Petro-Canada unit |
LITRE |
| Pointer |
ARROW |
| Police rounds |
AMMO |
| Port city on the Red Sea |
AQABA |
| Porto-Novo is its capital |
BENIN |
| Ruler preceding the Year of the Four Emperors |
NERO |
| Salade ___ |
NICOISE |
| Sale item indicator |
REDTAG |
| Savage |
MAUL |
| Sci-fi classic featuring Dr. Susan Calvin |
IROBOT |
| Shade of blue |
STEEL |
| Skillful |
ABLE |
| Son-in-law of Muhammad |
ALI |
| Suffer some tire damage |
GETGSHARP |
| Tar water, as seen in medieval medicine |
CUREALL |
| They may be stretches |
LIMOS |
| Thomas Gray’s ‘The Bard,’ e.g |
ODE |
| Top of an outfit? |
CEO |
| Transfix |
STAB |
| Trunk attachment? |
VINE |
| Virtual city dweller |
SIM |
| What the second letter of 17-Down stands for: Abbr |
CAL |
| Wonderstruck |
AWED |
| Ypsilanti sch. whose initials name a bird |
EMU |
| Zero |
NIL |
| ___ jazz (fusion genre) |
ETHNO |
| ___ mater |
ALMA |
| ___ Mawr |
BRYN |