New York Times Crossword Answers April 19, 2024
Author: Kate Hawkins
Editor: Joel Fagliano
Across
Stubb was his second mate | AHAB |
Things attached to spines: Abbr. | PGS |
Blowback | FLAK |
Prep for a launch, in a way | DEBUG |
Shell company? | CREW |
Concept in holistic medicine | AURA |
Marimba lookalike | VIBRAPHONE |
Absolute ___ (big and strong person, in modern slang) | UNIT |
*taps watch anxiously* | IDONTHAVEALLDAY |
A.P. subj. | LIT |
Deep-fried bite | TATERTOT |
“Othello” character who laments “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!” | CASSIO |
New face at the Academy | PLEBE |
The Alhambra in Spain, for one | PALACE |
When doubled, “Shame!” | TUT |
Gist | IDEA |
Pie choice | RHUBARB |
Blue character in Pixar’s “Inside Out” | SADNESS |
Onetime magazine that covered science fiction | OMNI |
Put together | SUM |
Acclaimed bandleader who grew up in Spanish Harlem | PUENTE |
Intended | MEANT |
Dances for which girls do the asking, informally | SADIES |
Was pleasurable | FELTGOOD |
Moo follower | SHU |
Explanation for a sudden change of plans | SOMETHINGCAMEUP |
Name that anagrams to a shape | OLAV |
Zoetrope creations | ANIMATIONS |
Bound for the big stage? | JETE |
Challenging item for a mover | SOFA |
Dodge | ELUDE |
Locale in a Beatles song | USSR |
Unspecified amount | ANY |
Unspecified amount | ALOT |
Down
Remedy after a night out, perhaps | ADVIL |
Gardner of “Saturday Night Live” | HEIDI |
Superior sort? | ABBOT |
Cutting insult | BURN |
“Show me” | PROVEIT |
Giving | GENEROUS |
Hard work, so to speak | SWEAT |
Major rifts | FAULTLINES |
Swedish city where Scandinavia’s first university was founded (1425) | LUND |
Bizet’s “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle,” for one | ARIA |
TV journalist ___ Tur | KATY |
Dystopian sci-fi film of 1997 | GATTACA |
Has a chinwag | CHATS |
Futuristic weapons | PHASERS |
Hack (off) | LOP |
Cooped-up feeling | CABINFEVER |
___ Prairie, Minn. | EDEN |
Choice | BEST |
Let off the gas, with “up” | EASE |
Springtime event, typically | PROM |
“Alas!” | AHME |
Sister of Sol, in myth | LUNA |
Cassava product | TAPIOCA |
Surprise, F.B.I.-style | BUSTINON |
Concern for a library patron or expectant parent | DUEDATE |
Blow up | MAGNIFY |
Holiday celebrated with lion dancing | TET |
comedy in which Alanis Morissette plays God | DOGMA |
Asian capital WSW of 48-Down | LHASA |
Asian capital ENE of 47-Down | SEOUL |
Bill with Ben Franklin on it, slangily | HUNDO |
Discountenanced | UPSET |
Korea’s national drink | SOJU |
Estadio exclamations | OLES |
Gymnastics equipment | MATS |
Actress Kunis | MILA |