New York Times Puzzle Answers March 10, 2024
Author: Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
New dog owner’s purchase | CRATE |
Dog adoption grp. | ASPCA |
Pop group with an “army” | BTS |
Setting for “Heidi” | ALPS |
“We’re not standin’ in their way!” | LETEM |
Pepper grinder? | MOLAR |
Put to work | USE |
Word with good or blood | SPORT |
Extra lives or additional gems, for a freemium game | INAPPPURCHASE |
[Gasp!] | THEHORROR |
Pastoral setting? | PARISH |
“Who am I? Two-four-six-oh-___!” (“Les Misérables” lyric) | ONE |
Cracker shape | ANIMAL |
“___-Olution” (2002 rap album) | EVE |
Avoided a tag, in a way | SLID |
“The kids these days have gotten way better than me” | IMTOOOLDFORTHISNOW |
Two-million-year-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland | DNA |
Cereal bit | OAT |
Something to butter up | TOAST |
Text communication inits. | SMS |
Shaggy hairstyle | MOP |
File-creating command | SAVEAS |
Actress Thompson | TESSA |
Former minor-league team that played at Aloha Stadium | HAWAIIISLANDERS |
Spot for food and craft beer | BREWPUB |
Opt | ELECT |
Significant stretch | ERA |
Crane lookalike | HERON |
“Do you really see me that way?” | AMI |
Range rover … or something to do in a Range Rover | STEER |
Craft that uses drafts | GLIDER |
What a cracker might crack | NUT |
Something for the rest of the military? | COT |
Scrabble bonus seen six times in this puzzle | TRIPLELETTERSCORE |
“The Chase” channel | ABC |
Was published | RAN |
In which “Ciamar a tha thu?” means “How are you?” | GAELIC |
Booped body parts | NOSES |
Member of the fam | BRO |
Count for a jury | DOZEN |
I, in German | ICH |
Slip past | ELUDE |
Product lines? | BARCODE |
Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper | CNNNEWSHEADLINE |
Kofi of the U.N. | ANNAN |
Pan feature | GOATEE |
Yank | TUG |
When repeated, [“Is this thing on?”] | TAP |
Battle royale | MELEE |
Nickname next to a heart emoji, perhaps | BAE |
Cyrillic letter pronounced like the “zz” of “pizza” | TSE |
“The English Patient” actress | KRISTINSCOTTTHOMAS |
Attenuated | THIN |
“South,” in Hanoi | NAM |
Place to chill, paradoxically | HOTTUB |
Home of the Hockey Hall of Fame: Abbr. | ONT |
Device that works with CarPlay | IPHONE |
Single guy? | ODDMANOUT |
Executive’s acumen | BUSINESSSENSE |
Apt domain for basketball’s King James | COURT |
Scanning inits. | MRI |
Something to believe in | CREDO |
Didn’t just assume | ASKED |
Part of the body to slap | KNEE |
Queen ___ | BEE |
To be, in Spanish | ESTAR |
Easily irritated | TESTY |
Down
Film archive bits | CLIPS |
Kidney-related | RENAL |
Maker of the Flashback console | ATARI |
Lukewarm | TEPID |
Birds with deep booming calls | EMUS |
“Better Call Saul” channel | AMC |
Very sexy | SOHOT |
Texas city that’s home to Frito-Lay | PLANO |
Lawyer’s bundle of work | CASELOAD |
“___ you not entertained?” | ARE |
“Au contraire!” | BUTNO |
Cannon fodder, at times | TSHIRTS |
Appear that one may | SEEMTO |
Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr. | APR |
TikTok star Gray | LOREN |
B.Y.U.’s city | PROVO |
Scatter about | STREW |
“Here’s the thing …” | SOLISTEN |
A group of them is called a “crash” | RHINOS |
Texter’s reaction button | HAHA |
Post | AFTER |
Syrupy covering for ham | MAPLEGLAZE |
Protagonist in “2001: A Space Odyssey” | DAVE |
Crockpot filler | STEW |
___ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table | DMITRI |
“___ All That” (1990s teen comedy) | SHES |
Soda shop order | MALT |
Vegetable often eaten without utensils | SWEETCORN |
Aviculture | Bird :: Heliciculture |
Campfire remains | ASH |
Out-of-this-world outfit | SPACESUIT |
Rikishi compete in it | SUMO |
Slightly | ABIT |
Taiwanese tech giant | ACER |
Pink-furred cat in “Garfield” | ARLENE |
Antipasto dish of tomatoes on grilled bread | BRUSCHETTA |
Campus military org. | ROTC |
Make more meaningful | ENRICH |
B.S., for one | DEG |
Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it | ETA |
Direction giver’s suggestion: Abbr. | RTE |
Jab | PROD |
Tony winner Renée ___ Goldsberry | ELISE |
High-strung | ONEDGE |
Coin collection | ROLL |
Enclosed rhyme scheme | ABBA |
Cereal bit | BRAN |
Poet St. Vincent Millay | EDNA |
Creep out, perhaps | SEEP |
Counterpart of “Been there” | DONETHAT |
Sgt. or cpl. | NCO |
Engine parts | CAMS |
Bigwig | NABOB |
Coup d’___ | ETAT |
Time when most people are asleep | WEEHOURS |
One birthed in Perth | AUSSIE |
Shrug or wave | GESTURE |
Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one | LION |
Place in a crypt | ENTOMB |
Announce one’s presence, in a way | KNOCK |
Invisible household hazard | RADON |
“My luck’s bound to turn around!” | IMDUE |
Adorable sort | CUTIE |
Beginning stage | ONSET |
Crete’s highest point, for short | MTIDA |
The ones nearby | THESE |
Indicates “Out of my way!” | HONKS |
Miniature map | INSET |
High-maintenance, say | NEEDY |
Exam with “calculator” and “no calculator” math sections | PSAT |
G.I.’s rations | MRE |
Dating inits. | BCE |
Negative Boolean operator | NOR |