New York Times Puzzle Answers March 13, 2024
Author: Drew Schmenner
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
| “___ Lang Syne” | AULD |
| Played the role of | WAS |
| Sights at overnight rest stops | SEMIS |
| [That’s hilarious!] | SNORT |
| Huntsville’s home: Abbr. | ALA |
| Make amends | ATONE |
| “Sex and the City” actress ___ Jessica Parker | SARAH |
| Flag-waver’s specialty | SEMAPHORE |
| Visibly in awe | AGAPE |
| Walk loudly | TROMP |
| “The Simpsons” neighbor | NED |
| “When the going gets tough, the early bird gets the worm,” e.g. | MIXEDMETAPHOR |
| What’s needed for a “Who’s on First?” routine | DUO |
| “Why are you in such a rush?” | SOSOON |
| “Darn!,” in Germany | ACH |
| Listing near a museum door, perhaps | DONOR |
| Southwestern wolf | LOBO |
| Best Actor nominee for “12 Years a Slave” | CHIWETELEJIOFOR |
| Famed art patron Henry | TATE |
| Houston N.F.L. player | TEXAN |
| Whatever floats your boat! | SEA |
| Word with soul or sob | SISTER |
| Manhattan hoops venue, in brief | MSG |
| In an unprecedented manner | ASNEVERBEFORE |
| What some online blockers block | ADS |
| Sealy competitor | SERTA |
| Some traffic directors | CONES |
| March Madness component that’s a phonetic hint to 18-, 23-, 38- and 50-Across | FINALFOUR |
| “My ___” (“Put your money away”) | TREAT |
| Escape | EVADE |
| Work whose name comes from the Greek for “sing” | ODE |
| Close call | SCARE |
| Amount at stake | WAGER |
| Kind of school | MED |
| “Anything ___?” | ELSE |
Down
| Variety of Indian tea | ASSAM |
| Eel, at a sushi restaurant | UNAGI |
| Literary character who cries “You’re glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed!” | LORAX |
| Hung loosely | DRAPED |
| Garbage | WASTE |
| Wide-awake | ALERT |
| American ___ | SAMOA |
| Lyric poet from Lesbos | SAPPHO |
| Biblical verb ending | ETH |
| Overhead features on sports cars | MOONROOFS |
| Memo heading | INRE |
| What the stone is in a stone fruit | SEED |
| Jeff Bridges’s “Big Lebowski” stoner role, familiarly | THEDUDE |
| Circuitry units | AMPS |
| Unworthy of debate | MOOT |
| City with 40 islands and nearly 350 lakes within its limits | OSLO |
| “O,” in W.W. II radio lingo | OBOE |
| Screenwriter Ephron | NORA |
| Doesn’t hesitate | ACTS |
| Variety of Indian tea | CHAI |
| Suddenly encounters trouble | HITSASNAG |
| “Interwebs” | NET |
| ___ Miss | OLE |
| “Vivat ___!” (“Long live the king!”) | REX |
| Dampens | WETS |
| Doorway feature | JAMB |
| Web attachments? | INSECTS |
| Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues” | ENSLER |
| Destination for scuba divers | REEF |
| Sensation on a roller coaster | GFORCE |
| Sound of a roar, maybe | VROOM |
| Practice piece | ETUDE |
| Stood on hind legs, with “up” | RARED |
| N.B.A. great nicknamed “Diesel” | ONEAL |
| Derrières | REARS |
| Cosmetics mogul Lauder | ESTEE |
| Several | AFEW |
| Go full ___ (make a big deal of things, in modern slang) | DIVA |
| Ending with lime or orange | ADE |
