New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers March 08, 2024
Author: Jackson Matz
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
Cries | CLAMORS |
What something unexpected might do | ARISE |
“Just give it time” | WAITABIT |
___ Manette, woman in “A Tale of Two Cities” | LUCIE |
The Jonas Brothers, e.g. | THREESOME |
Needle on a thread? | TROLL |
Female kangaroos | DOES |
Swarm | TEEM |
Color similar to lilac | MAUVE |
“Herb” … or a lead-in to herb | POT |
What some consume on a diet | LESS |
Court figure, informally | BALLER |
Balanced, as some molecules | APOLAR |
A mover … but not a shaker, one hopes | VAN |
Practice squad?: Abbr. | DRS |
Welcome | SEEIN |
“You guys STINK!,” e.g. | JEER |
Interior secretary Haaland | DEB |
Things going beyond your control? | SELFDRIVINGCARS |
Big name in construction equipment | CAT |
Student enrolled in courses like Contracts and Civil Procedures | ONEL |
Wreck | TOTAL |
Chap | BUB |
Overextend | TAX |
The U.N.’s smallest member | MONACO |
Pill bug or wood louse | ISOPOD |
Billy Joel’s “___ Always a Woman” | SHES |
In, in the past | HEP |
Water ___, mammal dubbed the “cheetah of the wetlands” for its speed and stealth | SHREW |
Bread with charred brown spots | NAAN |
Give (out) | DOLE |
Cameos might be seen on one | TIARA |
Things to settle | OLDSCORES |
Give it a whirl! | ROTOR |
Flotsam once in Boston Harbor | TEACHEST |
Nonstop | ONEND |
“A party? Count me in!” | IMTHERE |
Down
“Wanna tell me more?” | CARETOELABORATE |
“History is a set of ___ agreed upon” (remark attributed to Napoleon) | LIES |
Suffix with liquid | ATE |
Get down | MASTER |
High winds? | OBOES |
LeAnn of country music | RIMES |
Small part of a watch | STEM |
“Gosford Park” director, 2001 | ALTMAN |
Like the homes of roughly one in six Americans | RURAL |
Hunger hyperbole | ICOULDEATAHORSE |
Jewelry gift for a 25th anniversary | SILVERBRACELET |
Some fishermen | EELERS |
Butt of a joke? | WHOOPEECUSHION |
Throw for six, informally | TDPASS |
Secure | LAND |
Word with door or dance | BARN |
Steal | LIFT |
One of seven for Salome | VEIL |
“That’s what I just said!” | JINX |
Good name for a last-minute planner? | EVE |
Pest control brand once touted by Muhammad Ali | DCON |
It’s between the shoulders | ROAD |
Hot rods popular in the ’60s | GTOS |
Pre-algebra class calculations | SLOPES |
Casual dining setting | BISTRO |
Nearing | TOWARD |
Person of integrity | MENSCH |
World leader associated with the justicialism movement | PERON |
State capital dubbed the “Cherry City” | SALEM |
Attacked | HADAT |
Terse denial | NOTI |
Active person | DOER |
Michael of “Saturday Night Live” | CHE |