New York Times – Mar 12 2018
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: Ancient Greek, REY, Sherlock Holmes, SUMO.
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Allow me’ |
ICANHELP |
| ‘Heavens to Betsy!’ |
EGAD |
| ‘I am, you ___, he is’ |
ARE |
| ‘Star Wars Episode IV’ subtitle |
ANEWHOPE |
| ‘Two mints in one’ sloganeer |
CERTS |
| ‘When it’s ___’ (answer to an old riddle) |
AJAR |
| ‘___ Tú’ (1974 song) |
ERES |
| *Black face card whose face is seen in profile |
JACKOFSPADES |
| *Comic character on a gum wrapper |
BAZOOKAJOE |
| *Monster outsmarted by Odysseus |
POLYPHEMUS |
| *Rat Pack member who sang and danced |
SAMMYDAVISJR |
| Actor Morales of ‘La Bamba’ |
ESAI |
| Aerosol spray |
MIST |
| Amounts in a hypodermic needle |
DOSES |
| Ancient Greek market |
AGORA |
| Architect Saarinen |
EERO |
| Biter of Cleopatra |
ASP |
| Blood-related |
HEMAL |
| Blow, as a volcano |
ERUPT |
| Blow, as from a volcano |
SPEW |
| Boyfriend |
BEAU |
| Brief moments, briefly |
SECS |
| Bygone times |
YORE |
| Cancel at Cape Canaveral |
ABORT |
| Cheat |
COZEN |
| Classic paintings |
OILS |
| Complain querulously |
CARP |
| Dawn, to Donne |
MORN |
| Drivers doing 90, say |
SPEEDERS |
| February has the fewest of them |
DAYS |
| Folk legend Pete |
SEEGER |
| Former Israeli P.M. Yitzhak |
RABIN |
| Frighten |
SCARE |
| Handled, as a task |
SAWTO |
| Harvest |
REAP |
| Hawaiian goose |
NENE |
| Hero who’s neither a bird nor a plane |
SUPERMAN |
| Highly off-putting |
ICKY |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Indian queen |
RANI |
| Indy or Daytona |
RACEWAY |
| Left page in a book |
VERSO |
| Lessen |
ABATE |
| Like clothes in the hamper |
DIRTY |
| Nolo contendere, e.g |
PLEA |
| Parisian mother |
MERE |
| Part of a list with bullets |
ITEM |
| Parts missing from the Venus de Milo |
ARMS |
| Parts with irises |
UVEAS |
| Pilgrim to Mecca |
HADJI |
| Prop for Sherlock Holmes |
PIPE |
| Saint known for translating the Bible into Latin |
JEROME |
| Satanic |
EVIL |
| Scam |
FRAUD |
| See 39-Across |
EYE |
| Servant in ‘Young Frankenstein’ |
IGOR |
| Shakespeare’s stream |
AVON |
| Spanish king |
REY |
| Sport originally part of a Shinto ritual |
SUMO |
| Spread, as people in a search party |
FANOUT |
| Squished circle |
OVAL |
| Stallion’s mate |
MARE |
| Start of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ |
OSAY |
| Steinem who co-founded Ms. magazine |
GLORIA |
| Swimmers’ units |
LAPS |
| Tack on |
APPEND |
| Ten: Prefix |
DECA |
| The Colonel’s restaurant |
KFC |
| The Lone Ranger’s Silver and others |
STEEDS |
| Things learned in ‘The Alphabet Song’ |
ABCS |
| Tin lizzies |
MODELTS |
| Toilet paper layers, e.g |
PLIES |
| Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Lanchester |
ELSA |
| What hairy dogs do in the spring |
SHED |
| What two fives are change for |
ATEN |
| With 32-Across, what the answers to the starred clues each have |
ONE |
| With mouth wide open |
AGAPE |