New York Times Puzzle Answers March 09, 2024
Author: John Guzzetta
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
| They often come in shoeboxes | DIORAMAS |
| Key | ISLE |
| Widespread rumors, in a portmanteau | INFODEMIC |
| It’s handled at a bar | STEIN |
| Post-crisis baseline | NEWNORMAL |
| Like the second movement of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony | LARGO |
| Family nickname | GRAN |
| “The ultimate form of free speech,” to Denis Leary | COMEDY |
| ___ tape | VHS |
| Streaked | STRIPY |
| Not sit still | FIDGET |
| Died down | EBBED |
| Tony Stark or Jack Sparrow feature | GOATEE |
| Meet | FIT |
| MacGyvering | JURYRIGGING |
| Gets less green, say | AGES |
| Mathematical subgroup | COSET |
| Puffed up | SMUG |
| Possible response to “Did you find it?” | NOLUCKSOFAR |
| Some records, informally | EPS |
| Remington of 1980s TV | STEELE |
| Actor Fitch of “This Is Us” | NILES |
| As yet | TODATE |
| Parts of LEDs | DIODES |
| Berkeley, familiarly | CAL |
| In working order | USABLE |
| ___-Saint-Michel, abbey site in France | MONT |
| Flattens, in a way | IRONS |
| Underlying reason | ROOTCAUSE |
| Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of ___ March” | AUGIE |
| Beyoncé’s “Dangerously in Love” or John Lennon’s “Imagine” | SOLOALBUM |
| Gem used in intaglio | ONYX |
| They are felt every April | TAXBITES |
Down
| Slight faults, to a rater | DINGS |
| Reluctant to join? | INERT |
| Words after god or man | OFWAR |
| ___ Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia | RONNIE |
| Kerfuffle | ADO |
| “Thanks a lot!,” in intentionally butchered French | MERCYBUCKETS |
| ___ belt | AMMO |
| Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of 9, while living in Switzerland | SIAM |
| Spanish diminutive | ITA |
| Pay for a crime, say | SERVETIME |
| “Oh, come on, can’t you take a joke?!” | LIGHTENUP |
| Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905 | ENOS |
| Sign in front of some bars | CLEF |
| Trickster | SLYDOG |
| Stepping away from screens | DIGITALDETOX |
| Lunchbox option, informally | PBJ |
| Silences | GAGS |
| Concupiscent one | EROS |
| Appliance giant founded in England in 1991 | DYSON |
| They’re sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes | EGGS |
| Strikes out, slangily | FANS |
| “See ya!” | IGOTTARUN |
| Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for “study of the end” | TELEOLOGY |
| Mortgage deal, for short | REFI |
| Like many defendants in court | SUED |
| Word with escape or escalator | CLAUSE |
| Camp-y retailer? | REI |
| ___ Peninsula (Horn of Africa) | SOMALI |
| Rabbit ___ | EARS |
| “The origin of wisdom,” per René Descartes | DOUBT |
| Follow | ENSUE |
| Asparagus, essentially | STEMS |
| “See ya!” | CIAO |
| Eject | BOOT |
| Actress Kirke of “Mozart in the Jungle” | LOLA |
| Shoot down | NIX |
| One in line at an airport | CAB |
