New York Times Crossword Answers April 18, 2024
Author: David Kwong
Editor: Joel Fagliano
Across
It might come in a package | AID |
Showy accessories on marching band uniforms | PLUMES |
Big mouth | MAW |
Measure of inflation, in brief | PSI |
Bygone | DEFUNCT |
Money maven, for short | CFO |
*Allot time | ELECTIONDAY |
The False Good Samaritan, e.g. | CON |
Account that’s been overdrawn? | SAGA |
Delightful diversion | ROMP |
Mo. without a federal holiday | AUG |
*Acre on the ocean floor | MOTHEROFPEARL |
Menu fish | SOLE |
It’ll all shake out | SALT |
Wood commonly used in mid-century modern furniture | ASH |
One way to come out | AHEAD |
Aware of | INON |
Limitless quantity | SEA |
*Ice is found on it | RIVIERA |
Animal whose name, when capitalized, is a major West African language | EWE |
Things to piece together | KITS |
Fireplace bit | EMBER |
“That being said …” | YET |
Days leading up to the next sign, in astrology | CUSP |
Director Johnson | RIAN |
*Ovid of Greek mythology | THECRETANBULL |
Verizon sale of 2021 | AOL |
Greet the day | RISE |
Roundup sounds | MOOS |
You might need a lift to do this | SKI |
Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle | ASTARISBORN |
First name in objectivism | AYN |
Horace’s “Ars ___” | POETICA |
Hosp. scan | MRI |
Faddish 1990s disk | POG |
Like some coding loops and measuring cups | NESTED |
Not wavering | SET |
Down
Does like | APES |
It follows the Hijri calendar | ISLAM |
Saber-toothed tiger in the “Ice Age” movies | DIEGO |
Summer setting in S.F. | PDT |
Bloomers worn around one’s head? | LEI |
Visitor from a faraway place | UFO |
Alice with a Nobel Prize in Literature | MUNRO |
Words before time or story | ENDOF |
Roguish sorts | SCAMPS |
*Assist in a foursome | MCCARTNEY |
One way to run | AFOUL |
Anna May ___, Hollywood’s first Chinese American film celebrity | WONG |
Naturally competitive | TYPEA |
Musical with Rum Tum Tugger and Mungojerrie | CATS |
Winter frost | HOAR |
For grades K-12 | ELHI |
Superman portrayer | REEVE |
Athlete with the only vertically mounted marker on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so his holy name is not walked upon | ALI |
“Don’t ___” | ASK |
Half of dodici | SEI |
*Ascent stage for a bird | HATCHLING |
Sightsee? | AIM |
Name that’s an anagram of BREAD | DEBRA |
Be beholden to | OWE |
Clear | NET |
Attachment to a bit | REIN |
Graceful horse | ARAB |
Seek retribution, in a way | SUE |
Small brawl | SCRAP |
Joint, so to speak | PRISON |
Deadened | NUMB |
Olympics site | TOKYO |
Perfume name with an accent | ESTEE |
Milk sources | TEATS |
Devices with shuttles | LOOMS |
Peter of 1934’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” | LORRE |
“Yesterday!” | ASAP |
Cross fit? | SNIT |
Gradually slower, in music: Abbr. | RIT |
Suffix with coward | ICE |
Heavy-hearted | SAD |