New York Times – Feb 13 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Bad, bad’ Brown of song |
LEROY |
‘Call me ___!’ ‘O.K., you’re …!’ |
ACAB |
‘Six-pack’ muscles |
ABS |
‘Well, what have we here!’ |
OHO |
1980s cop show that TV Guide once ranked as the greatest TV drama of all time |
HILLSTREETBLUES |
Aesthetic taste |
PALATE |
Alternative to arbitrary governance |
RULEOFLAW |
An evergreen |
FIR |
B-ball official |
REF |
Battery for a TV remote |
AAA |
Beehive product |
HONEY |
Blossom-to-be |
BUD |
Brooch |
PIN |
Chandon’s partner in Champagne |
MOET |
China’s Mao ___-tung |
TSE |
Cookie morsel |
CRUMB |
Cut again, as grass |
REMOW |
Deice |
THAW |
Dem.’s counterpart |
REP |
Devour with the eyes |
OGLE |
Doesn’t leave |
STAYS |
Dollar bill |
ONE |
F.D.R.’s successor |
HST |
Former Iranian leader |
SHAH |
Former Italian P.M. whose name means ‘beloved’ |
AMATO |
Freezing rain |
SLEET |
French department capital known in Roman times as Nemausus |
NIMES |
Gave for a while |
LENT |
Gentlemen |
SIRS |
Heavenly hunter |
ORION |
Horse whose coat is sprinkled with white hairs |
ROAN |
Houston player |
ASTRO |
Houston player, once |
OILER |
How Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic |
SOLO |
Item in a golfer’s pocket |
TEE |
James Earl Jones or Tommy Lee Jones |
HOLLYWOODACTOR |
Laze |
LOLL |
Like the band Josie and the Pussycats |
ALLFEMALE |
Clues |
Answers |
Made off with |
TOOK |
Metes (out) |
DOLES |
Mexico’s ___ California |
BAJA |
Name of five Norwegian kings |
OLAV |
October birthstone |
OPAL |
One-named New Age singer |
ENYA |
Org. that monitors gun sales |
ATF |
Play, as a guitar |
STRUM |
Poem like ‘The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer’s small herald’ |
HAIKU |
Pro’s opposite |
ANTI |
Proverbial waste maker |
HASTE |
Reached |
GOTTO |
Reduced, with ‘back’ |
SCALED |
Reluctant (to) |
LOATH |
Robber |
THIEF |
Rock and roll has one in Cleveland |
HALLOFFAME |
Ruckus |
HULLABALOO |
Saks ___ Avenue |
FIFTH |
Share a border with |
ABUT |
Shop employee |
CLERK |
Singer Fitzgerald |
ELLA |
Small egg |
OVULE |
Smokey Bear ad, e.g., for short |
PSA |
Spanish wine region, with ‘La’ |
RIOJA |
State that the Arctic Circle passes through |
ALASKA |
Stereo control: Abbr |
VOL |
String quartet instrument |
VIOLA |
Succinctly put |
TERSE |
Walking |
ONFOOT |
What the Ugly Duckling became |
SWAN |
Window unit |
PANE |
Words after work or museum |
OFART |
Words of greeting |
HELLOHOWAREYOU |
Worker protection org |
OSHA |
Wriggly fish |
EEL |
Zones |
AREAS |
___ Lanka |
SRI |
___ Nostra (crime group) |
COSA |