New York Times Puzzle Answers March 15, 2024
Author: Daniel Grinberg
Editor: Joel Fagliano
Across
| Put on blast | BASH |
| Vegetable whose name comes from Igbo | OKRA |
| Bill originating in Texas | PECOS |
| It has its standards, for short | OSHA |
| -Across, for one | POET |
| Raise | EXALT |
| “On Being Brought From Africa to America” writer, 1768 | PHILLISWHEATLEY |
| Nobody else can take it | SELFIE |
| Campaign platforms, perhaps | ROSTRA |
| Ground rule? | NOTV |
| Milquetoast | WIMP |
| Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective | ABLE |
| Proportion of customers that make a purchase, in business-speak | HITRATE |
| More trifling | MERER |
| “Baloney!” | MYEYE |
| Gets ready to fly | TAXIES |
| Forgetting to finish this clue, for examp | CARELESSMISTAKE |
| Got taken for a ride, in a way | UBERED |
| Your ___ | HONOR |
| Occasion to ask the Four Questions | SEDER |
| After Brazil, the world’s second-largest producer of coffee | VIETNAM |
| Give a hand? | SLAP |
| Left for the country? | WEST |
| “My goodness!” | JEEZ |
| Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drowning Girl,” e.g. | POPART |
| Bit of deductive reasoning? | TAXTIP |
| Cocktail with caffeine | ESPRESSOMARTINI |
| Can’t stand the heat, say | WILTS |
| Kind of fixation | ORAL |
| Foul smell | REEK |
| Rip (from) | WREST |
| iPhone command | SYNC |
| Real prat | ARSE |
Down
| Catchy tunes | BOPS |
| Opposite of rubicund | ASHEN |
| Battle site in Tennessee | SHILOH |
| Components of some sports broadcasts | HALFTIMEREPORTS |
| Swing-era bandleader ___ Cates | OPIE |
| Decks and floors, informally? | KOS |
| Alters the narrative, in a way | REWRITESHISTORY |
| Familiar (with) | ATHOME |
| Laphroaig flavorer | PEAT |
| Words from a paper pusher? | EXTRAEXTRAEXTRA |
| Region of Italy that lends its name to a pepper | CALABRIA |
| Scream for a team | OLE |
| What Charlotte lives above in “Charlotte’s Web” | STY |
| “The Lord of the Rings” actress | LIVTYLER |
| Unlikely gift | ESP |
| Courses | WAYS |
| Vichyssoise ingredient | LEEK |
| Source of the words “plaid” and “trousers” | ERSE |
| Bacteriologist Walter who conducted yellow fever research | REED |
| Preserver’s purchase | MASONJAR |
| Salon offering | TINT |
| Swear | CUSS |
| Name that’s a homophone of 24-Across | ABEL |
| Fuji, for one | REDAPPLE |
| Dom maker | MOET |
| Pages on the left side | VERSOS |
| Profession | METIER |
| “And She ___” (Talking Heads hit) | WAS |
| Indie output | ZINES |
| Threat to crops | PEST |
| Common additive to white rice | TALC |
| Fish named for a weapon | PIKE |
| *grimaces, sticks out tongue* | EWW |
| “Which one of Arthur’s knights built the Round Table? ___ Cumference!” (groaner) | SIR |
| “My goodness!” | MAN |
