New York Times – Jan 9 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘According to conventional wisdom …’ |
THEYSAY |
‘Monsters, ___’ (2001 movie) |
INC |
‘No thanks’ |
ILLPASS |
‘Rats!’ |
NERTS |
‘So long!’ |
TATA |
‘You ready?’ |
ALLSET |
1990s TV series about a murder in a town in Washington |
TWINPEAKS |
Amorous cartoon skunk |
PEPE |
And others, for short |
ETC |
Apr. 15 mail addressee |
IRS |
Beach footwear |
SANDALS |
Black ___ (covert doings) |
OPS |
Buffalo’s lake |
ERIE |
Bump fists |
DAP |
Coat and ___ |
TIE |
Decrease |
FALLOFF |
Drilling tool |
AUGER |
Ending on several central Asian country names |
STAN |
English monarch with a ‘lace’ named after her |
QUEENANNE |
Exhibit in an anatomy class |
SKELETON |
Exposition |
FAIR |
Fencing sword |
EPEE |
Film director Kurosawa |
AKIRA |
Four-baggers: Abbr |
HRS |
Freezes, with ‘over’ |
ICES |
French ‘to be’ |
ETRE |
French farewell |
ADIEU |
Genesis vessel |
ARK |
Gets 16-Across |
AGES |
Guided |
LED |
Hooded snake |
KINGCOBRA |
Inits. at the start of a memo |
FYI |
Is sick |
AILS |
Job that might involve watching the kids? |
GOATHERD |
Joy Adamson book about Elsa the lioness |
BORNFREE |
K, in the NATO alphabet |
KILO |
K-K-K-5-5, e.g., in poker |
FULLHOUSE |
Land between Can. and Mex |
USA |
Like a sheep with all its wool |
UNSHORN |
Clues |
Answers |
Like favorite stations on a car radio |
PRESET |
Lipton offering |
TEA |
Made smooth, as wood |
SANDED |
Meanie in ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ |
GIANT |
N.B.A. star ___ Irving |
KYRIE |
Onetime Volvo competitor |
SAAB |
Part of the conjugation of the French ‘avoir’ |
AIT |
Phony doc |
QUACK |
Picnic pests |
ANTS |
Pie ___ mode |
ALA |
Place for the banjo in ‘Oh! Susanna’ |
KNEE |
Place to drink lined with TVs |
SPORTSBAR |
Place to pull over on an interstate |
RESTAREA |
Praiseful poem |
ODE |
Prefix with dermis |
EPI |
President after Nixon |
FORD |
Puts on TV or radio |
AIRS |
Rarin’ to go |
EAGER |
Republican pol Haley from South Carolina |
NIKKI |
Result of failure to comb the hair after sleep, maybe … or a feature of 17-, 25-, 49- or 61-Across? |
BEDHEAD |
School grp |
PTA |
Soft mineral |
TALC |
Sour |
TART |
State that produces the most corn |
IOWA |
Thin pancake |
CREPE |
Tool building |
SHED |
U.S. weather agcy |
NOAA |
Unscrupulous moneylending |
USURY |
Use a stencil on |
TRACE |
Variety |
ILK |
Weather-related stoppage in baseball |
RAINDELAY |
Word before a maiden name |
NEE |
Word before congestion or spray |
NASAL |
Worry |
FRET |
Young male viewed as a sex object |
BOYTOY |
Zeus’ wife |
HERA |
___ and wiser |
OLDER |
___ Ticonderoga |
FORT |
___-rock (music genre) |
ALT |