New York Times, Monday, April 20, 2020 Puzzle Solutions
Published in New York Times Crossword.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Madama Butterfly’ dress | KIMONO |
| ‘Sounds right to me’ | IDSAYSO |
| ‘Well, what have we here?!’ | OHO |
| ‘Wow!’ … and a hint to both halves of the answers to the starred clues | BOYOHBOY |
| *Drama department production | SCHOOLPLAY |
| *Means of locating one from the herd | COWBELL |
| *Something to ‘take me out to,’ in an old song | BALLGAME |
| *The presidency, e.g | HIGHOFFICE |
| *Unpleasant tidings | BADNEWS |
| 1950s Communist-bashing grp. in Congress | HUAC |
| Account of one’s earlier days | MEMOIR |
| Airport for a Bull or a Bear | OHARE |
| Astronomer Sagan | CARL |
| Big Board inits | NYSE |
| Boat propeller | OAR |
| Bowl or plate | DISH |
| Brian who coined the term ‘ambient music’ | ENO |
| Bump against in a crowd | JOSTLE |
| Circle | LOOP |
| Close buddy, in a modern coinage | BFF |
| Comprehended | GOT |
| Cough syrup amt | TSP |
| Crushing defeat | ROUT |
| Desert refuges | OASES |
| Document showing ownership | DEED |
| Dog strap | LEASH |
| Estate in ‘Gone With the Wind’ | TARA |
| Falco with Emmys for two different series | EDIE |
| Fills tightly | STUFFS |
| Flicks that sometimes end in weddings | ROMCOMS |
| Fox talent show winner | IDOL |
| G.I. who’s way off base | AWOL |
| George Gershwin’s brother/partner | IRA |
| Get ready for production, as a factory | TOOLUP |
| Giant-sized TV, as in a stadium | JUMBOTRON |
| Great ___ of China | WALL |
| Guarantee | ASSURE |
| Gulped down | SWALLOWED |
| Hershey’s coconut candy bar | MOUNDS |
| Homes made of sun-dried bricks | ADOBES |
| Hospital dept. for the neediest cases | ICU |
| Its symbol is Sn | TIN |
| Keats’s tribute to an urn, e.g | ODE |
| Kind of birth with a rear-first delivery | BREECH |
| Knighted actor Guinness | ALEC |
| Latin list lopper, in brief | ETAL |
| Like a two-position electrical switch | ONOFF |
| Loose, as shoelaces | UNTIED |
| Maine’s national park | ACADIA |
| Nastase of 1970s tennis | ILIE |
| Neither’s partner | NOR |
| Not watertight | LEAKY |
| Once around the track | LAP |
| Orange-nosed Muppet | ELMO |
| Performed some hip-hop | RAPPED |
| Prohibit | OUTLAW |
| Prohibits | BANS |
| Recycling container | BIN |
| Response to ‘Who, me?’ | YESYOU |
| Rhythmic heartbeats | PULSES |
| Satirical work, like ‘Bored of the Rings’ | PARODY |
| Sexual appetite | LIBIDO |
| Some mag. workers | EDS |
| Spy on the inside | MOLE |
| Strip in a window blind | SLAT |
| Swill for swine | SLOP |
| Texter’s guffaw | LOL |
| Thrilla in Manila victor | ALI |
| Toys on strings | YOYOS |
| Trains like Chicago’s | ELS |
| Triangular sail | LATEEN |
| Trifling amount | SOU |
| Uptight | EDGY |
| Was the front-runner | LED |
| Weight watcher’s plan | DIET |
| Where a nuthatch hatches | NEST |
| Whole lot | SLEW |
| ___ Today | USA |