New York Times – Dec 20 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Eww!’ inducer |
ODOR |
‘___ Andronicus’ |
TITUS |
‘___ Squad’ (2016 hit movie) |
SUICIDE |
1961 space chimp |
ENOS |
A, in Andalusia |
UNA |
Add details to, with ‘out’ |
FLESH |
Allergy sufferer’s lifesaver |
EPIPEN |
Assistance |
AID |
Back out of |
RENEGEON |
Backpackers’ routes |
TRAILS |
Bad car to road-trip in |
LEMON |
Booming |
LOUD |
Bottom-feeding fish known formally as the morwong |
SEACARP |
Bridge support |
TRUSS |
Cardamom or turmeric |
SPICE |
Certain jabs |
LEFTS |
Clear adhesive |
SCOTCHTAPE |
Cocktail usually served with an orange slice and a cherry |
TEQUILASUNRISE |
Color of unbleached silk |
ECRU |
Cool, quaintly |
NEATO |
Decadent, as cake |
RICH |
Drudge |
PEON |
Each |
APOP |
Enforcer of the Fed. Meat Inspection Act |
USDA |
Ernie in the World Golf Hall of Fame |
ELS |
Find |
LOCATE |
Fortunes |
FATES |
French cake |
GATEAU |
French royal line |
HOUSEOFBOURBON |
Get the ball rolling? |
PUTT |
Hägar the Horrible’s dog |
SNERT |
How this puzzle’s three drinks have been served? |
ONTHEROCKS |
Item in a box in the basement |
FUSE |
Jewish organization on campus |
HILLEL |
Johnny of ‘Sleepy Hollow’ |
DEPP |
Like some fancy basketball passes |
NOLOOK |
Clues |
Answers |
Like the D-Day assault on Normandy |
AMPHIBIOUS |
MacBook ___ |
PRO |
Mad ___ |
LIBS |
Marie Antoinette lost hers in la Révolution française |
TETE |
Mark Twain, notably |
WIT |
Mr. ___, host of ‘Fantasy Island’ |
ROARKE |
Muchacho’s sweetie |
CHICA |
North Pole worker |
ELF |
Omani money |
RIAL |
Org. concerned with climate change |
EPA |
Pack (down) |
TAMP |
Pamphlets, postcards and such |
EPHEMERA |
Pilgrimage destinations |
MECCAS |
Public squabble |
SCENE |
Purge (of) |
RID |
Reed of the Velvet Underground |
LOU |
Remove, as spilled ink |
BLOTUP |
Similar (to) |
AKIN |
Sloping water trough |
SLUICE |
Software fix |
PATCH |
Something controlled by rigging |
SAIL |
Something that fits in a lock |
OAR |
Sounded kittenish |
MEWED |
Spa specialty, briefly |
TLC |
Start of Caesar’s boast |
ICAME |
Starting place, on a map |
POINTA |
Surface-dwelling race in ‘The Time Machine’ |
ELOI |
Sycophantic |
OBSEQUIOUS |
Synagogue singers |
CANTORS |
Texter’s ‘As I see it …’ |
IMO |
Title heroine who says ‘I would much rather have been merry than wise’ |
EMMA |
Trebly |
THRICE |
Trip around the track |
LAP |
Two-toned horse |
PINTO |
Weed out? |
HOE |
Word repeated in ‘What’s ___ is ___’ |
PAST |