New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Mar 28 2018 Wednesday
| Clues | Answers |
| ___ elephant | ASIAN |
| ___ qua non (essential element) | SINE |
| 2008 Olympic men’s tennis gold medalist | NADAL |
| African pest | TSETSE |
| Air passenger’s request | AISLE |
| Attends without an escort | GOESSTAG |
| Aziz of “Observe and Report” | ANSARI |
| Ballplayer Rich who started and ended his 15-year career as a Giant | AURILIA |
| Band engagement | GIG |
| Basilica part | NAVE |
| Bull’s-eye, for Target | LOGO |
| Catches in a net | SNARES |
| Caterer’s coffeepot | URN |
| Chacun ___ gout | ASON |
| Chicago airport | OHARE |
| Cloths used to collect dust | RAGS |
| Cpl. or sgt. | NCO |
| Creation from a kit | SCALEMODEL |
| Didn’t speak of, as a touchy subject | KEPTQUIETABOUT |
| Digitize, as a document | SCAN |
| Distillery sight | VAT |
| Doors, in Brest | PORTES |
| End of each word in 17-, 27-, 43- and 54-Across – as well as every clue (and that’s a fact!) | TEE |
| Fall ’75 TV debut | SNL |
| Farthest point in an orbit | APOGEE |
| Fashion magazine that can be read from back to front? | ELLE |
| Fever fit | AGUE |
| Figs. on a Stanford-Binet test | IQS |
| Final word in a Porky Pig short | FOLKS |
| Finally, though as important … | LASTBUTNOTLEAST |
| First full month of D.S.T. | APR |
| Fussy to a fault | ANAL |
| Game similar to baccarat | FARO |
| German dissent | NEIN |
| Gets the lead out? | ERASES |
| Habitat for a trout | LAKE |
| Health resort | SPA |
| Israeli region that includes Eilat | NEGEV |
| Lash out at | ASSAIL |
| Leopold’s 1924 co-defendant | LOEB |
| Like ___, all tears: Hamlet | NIOBE |
| Like something that can be closed tight | SEALABLE |
| Matador’s opponent | TORO |
| McKellen of “The Hobbit” | IAN |
| Nascar Hall-of-Famer Jarrett | NED |
| No. of concern in a cockpit | ALT |
| Notorious ___ (best seller about a member of the Supreme Court) | RBG |
| Novelist Wilson who wrote “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” | SLOAN |
| Org. to call for a jump-start | AAA |
| Org. with a Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight | BPOE |
| Part of Iran that can get quite hot | GREATSALTDESERT |
| Pitcher’s asset | ARM |
| Popular early 2000s R&B artist | LILMO |
| Psychoanalysis appt. | SESS |
| Quite a bit | LOTS |
| Rabbi Meir who served in the Knesset | KAHANE |
| Red snapper, at a sushi restaurant | TAI |
| Retouches after a fly ball is caught | TAGSUP |
| Rimes with the 2002 hit “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” | LEANN |
| Scent | AROMA |
| Shape for a locket | OVAL |
| Shedding, as weight | LOSING |
| Singer John who was born Reginald Dwight | ELTON |
| Sitcom cook who said “Stow it!” | MEL |
| Something in a simile that’s dead beyond doubt | DOORNAIL |
| Soprano Licia who performed hundreds of times at the Met | ALBANESE |
| Suddenly showed interest | SATBOLTUPRIGHT |
| Suffix with president | IAL |
| Supports for a lower joint | KNEEBRACES |
| The Muppet Show host | KERMIT |
| The Story of ___ (1975 film by Truffaut) | ADELEH |
| Tidal retreat | EBB |
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