New York Times Crossword Answers April 21, 2024
Author: Michael Schlossberg
Editor: Joel Fagliano
Across
Staff symbol | CCLEF |
Items on the backs of some Jeeps | GASCANS |
Test pilot’s attire | GSUIT |
Bedridden | LAIDUP |
Creditor, in legalese | OBLIGEE |
Champion boxer Errol ___ Jr. | SPENCE |
Once or twice | ADVERB |
Like Mary Shelley when she wrote “Frankenstein” | TEENAGE |
Marketing expenditure | PAIDAD |
Bearing | MIEN |
Natural source of rubber | TREESAP |
County that’s home to the White Cliffs of Dover | KENT |
Unimpressed | BLASE |
Sheet under a tent | TARP |
Sharp pain | STAB |
Major vessel | AORTA |
Chinese ___ (bonsai choice) | ELM |
Rhyme for “away” in “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” | GAY |
Agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre’s org. in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” | IRS |
No. on a résumé | TEL |
Ewes’ guys | RAMS |
“Invisible hand” subj. | ECON |
Quattro e quattro | OTTO |
President during the Mexican-American War | POLK |
Ice cream shop employee, e.g. | SCOOPER |
Shakespearean misanthrope | TIMON |
Small Southwestern birds of prey | ELFOWLS |
“The Harlequin’s Carnival” painter | MIRO |
Nickname for a British relative | NAN |
Brouhahas | ADOS |
Buds | CHUMS |
Ben who starred in Broadway’s “Dear Evan Hansen” | PLATT |
Role for Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” | MITZI |
Wordle player’s pride | STREAK |
“Who, me?” | MOI |
Partner ship? | ARK |
Belief | NOTION |
“___ magic!” | ITS |
Title pig of kids’ TV | PEPPA |
Schmear topper | LOX |
Annoying bot | SPAMMER |
They have the Guinness distinction of Longest Running Fan Club for a Group | QUEEN |
Work like the devil? | POSSESS |
“Who, me?” response | YESYOU |
Pixy Stix containers | STRAWS |
Carpentry vise | CCLAMP |
___ service | LIP |
Percival of legend, for one | SIR |
Mystical Buddhist text | TANTRA |
Minecraft material | ORE |
Cooper’s tool | ADZ |
Folder flap | TAB |
End of a sports movie, often | WIN |
Advance | LOAN |
Block (up) | DAM |
Some four-year degs. | BAS |
Letters that sound out a sentence | IOU |
First-rate | TOPS |
Playful hit | BOP |
Speculative fiction subgenre that envisions a sustainable energy future | SOLARPUNK |
Limited number | FEW |
Bitter-tasting salad ingredient | ENDIVE |
Fun facts | NUGGETS |
Sophisticated | URBANE |
Farm machine | REAPER |
French form of “Stephen” | ETIENNE |
Area 51 sighting | SAUCER |
“C’mon, you’ll love it!” | TRYONE |
“And ___ …” | YET |
Celebration in late January or early February | TET |
Tweaks | ALTERS |
Down
Ascends with one’s hands and feet | CLAMBERS |
Escalade, e.g. | CADILLAC |
Blanks’ opposite | LIVEAMMO |
Shangri-las | EDENS |
Hair of the dog | FUR |
“See ya later” | GOTTAGO |
Not normal | ABERRANT |
Like beach towns in the winter | SLEEPY |
Cannes subject | CINE |
Tennis great known as “The Punisher” | AGASSI |
Former name of the electron | NEGATRON |
Ignore, as a shortcoming | SEEPAST |
Application fig. | GPA |
Casio rival | SEIKO |
Shore hazard | UNDERTOW |
“That much is obvious” | ICANTELL |
Speeches with an 18-minute limit | TEDTALKS |
Channel with on-air fund-raising | PBS |
Mole, e.g. | SPY |
Taunt | JEER |
Shout at an auction | SOLD |
battle site, with “the” | SOMME |
Boast | CROW |
Blue-green | TEAL |
Hypothesize | POSIT |
City on the Arno | PISA |
Taking the place (of) | INLIEU |
“Here’s looking at you, kid”? | MAA |
Like old audiobooks | ONTAPE |
Why some app users check their notifications constantly, for short | FOMO |
Several CBS dramas | CSIS |
Link letters | HTTP |
___ Major | URSA |
Classroom surprise | POPQUIZ |
Passage of a planet across a star, e.g. | TRANSIT |
Noted export of Portugal | TILE |
Common field trip destinations | ZOOS |
“Need You Tonight” band, 1987 | INXS |
Blubber | CRY |
Stew tidbit | PEA |
E.M.T.’s technique | CPR |
One-named singer on 1998’s “Ghetto Supastar” | MYA |
Distracted Boyfriend, e.g. | MEME |
One of Eleven’s powers on “Stranger Things” | ESP |
___ milk | OAT |
Gift on the seventh day of Christmas | SWAN |
Mr. Burns supposedly received the second one ever on “The Simpsons”: Abbr. | SSN |
What Tom and Daisy embody in “The Great Gatsby” | OLDMONEY |
Gift for an aspiring conductor | TRAINSET |
Last name in late-night | COLBERT |
Ol’ Blue Eyes, e.g. | CROONER |
Quadrennial occurrence | LEAPDAY |
District attorney-turned-Batman foe | TWOFACE |
Ethylene gas, to tomatoes | RIPENER |
Key components | ANSWERS |
Some batteries | AAS |
Ginormous | LARGE |
___ choy | BOK |
Throw in the towel | BAGIT |
Didn’t save | SPENT |
Appliance that may self-clean | OVEN |
Renaissance instrument | LUTE |
___ Reader | UTNE |
Kind of tradition | ORAL |
N.Y.S.E. debut | IPO |
Afore | ERE |
Letters on the Saturn V rocket | USA |
Protester’s word | BUT |