New York Times, Sunday, April 19, 2020 Puzzle Solutions
Published in New York Times Crossword.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Catch That ___ Spirit’ (old ad slogan) | PEPSI |
| ‘I’m listening’ | DOTELL |
| ‘Marriage Story’ co-star, to fans | SCARJO |
| ‘Or so’ | ISH |
| ‘Such is life!’ | ALAS |
| ‘___ on!’ | ITS |
| Absorb, as a loss | EAT |
| Actor Patel | DEV |
| Actress Davis | GEENA |
| Ankle-biter | RUGRAT |
| Attach to the end of | TAGON |
| Bad position for a server | ADOUT |
| Biblical figure with a tomb in the Cave of the Patriarchs | ISAAC |
| Big inits. in news | NPR |
| Blue toon in a white dress | SMURFETTE |
| Box up | ENCASE |
| Button on a DVD player | EJECT |
| Call to a shepherd | BAA |
| Called up | RANG |
| Capital of French Polynesia | PAPEETE |
| Cardiologist’s tool | STENT |
| Carelessly drops | PLONKS |
| Cause of fatigue | ANEMIA |
| CD follower | ROM |
| Certain employee at ESPN or JPMorgan Chase | ANALYST |
| Certain insurance coverage | DENTAL |
| Chocolate substitute | CAROB |
| Civics and Accords | SEDANS |
| Comic Jones formerly of ‘S.N.L.’ | LESLIE |
| Common skirt feature | PLEAT |
| Convinced | SOLD |
| Cool, in an uncool way | HEP |
| Course that’s free of obstacles? | EASYA |
| Dance that men often do shirtless | HULA |
| Director Craven | WES |
| Disintegrate, in a way, as cells in the body | LYSE |
| Drink in a little cup | SAKE |
| Duffer’s approach shots that barely go anywhere? | MICROCHIPS |
| Duffer’s problems with an angled club? | WEDGEISSUES |
| Duffer’s putt that just misses? | ASTROKEOFBADLUCK |
| Duffer’s reasons to choose a wood? | IRONDEFICIENCIES |
| Edie of ‘The Sopranos’ | FALCO |
| Europe-based grp. with no European members | OPEC |
| Exams for some bio majors | MCATS |
| Flair | ELAN |
| Fleet | ARMADA |
| Foaming at the mouth | RABID |
| Founder of WikiLeaks | ASSANGE |
| Gaza grp | PLO |
| Go full ___ (throw a world-class hissy fit) | DIVA |
| Goes on a tweetstorm | RANTS |
| Grand dwelling | PALACE |
| Grassy field | LEA |
| Guesses by GPSes | ETAS |
| Have trouble deciding | DITHER |
| Headstrong | ORNERY |
| House speaker before Pelosi | RYAN |
| Intel producer | RECON |
| It was ‘a no-go’ in Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ | EDSEL |
| Japanese soybean appetizer | EDAMAME |
| Kind of rating | NIELSEN |
| King Midas’s downfall | GREED |
| Letter-shaped fastener | TNUT |
| Like a question for which ‘maybe’ is not an option | YESNO |
| Like a wunderkind | GIFTED |
| Like kids, but not mom or dad? | PLURAL |
| Like some personalities | ONAIR |
| Like the ‘Mona Lisa’ in 1911 | STOLEN |
| Like the duffer in this puzzle? | NOTUPTOPAR |
| Line on a map: Abbr | HWY |
| Lodgers | TENANTS |
| Low-___ | CAL |
| Make (out) | EKE |
| Milk sources | EWES |
| More yellow, but not yet brown, say | RIPER |
| Move stealthily | SKULK |
| New York city on Long Island Sound | RYE |
| Nickname for a duffer who can’t hit straight? | CAPTAINHOOK |
| Nickname that can be either masculine or feminine | SAL |
| No longer sleeping | WOKEN |
| Off the internet, to internet users | IRL |
| On the button | PRECISE |
| Ones practicing: Abbr | DRS |
| Org. that employs radio telescopes | SETI |
| Orphan girl in Byron’s ‘Don Juan’ | LEILA |
| Palindrome in poetry | ERE |
| Part of the upper bod | PEC |
| Pauses | LETUPS |
| Physician Jonas | SALK |
| Pick up | SENSE |
| Piece of training equipment in boxing | SPEEDBAG |
| Place to visit in a suit | APIARY |
| Play with | USE |
| Post-Mao Chinese leader | DENG |
| Preparatory time | EVE |
| Principle of harmonious design | FENGSHUI |
| Protection | AEGIS |
| Pull some strings? | STRUM |
| Purchase that often costs 99ยข | APP |
| Put forth, as a theory | POSITED |
| Rapper Lil ___ X | NAS |
| Result of spectators heckling a duffer? | DISTRACTEDDRIVING |
| Road crew’s supply | TAR |
| Rope holding down a bowsprit | BOBSTAY |
| S O S in Gotham City | BATSIGNAL |
| Scads | ALOT |
| Scale starter, per ‘The Sound of Music’ | DOE |
| School of thought | ISM |
| Showing signs of neglect | SEEDY |
| Sign of winter’s end | PISCES |
| Simple and ingenious | ELEGANT |
| Simple shelter | TEPEE |
| Something consumed with a cracker? | WALNUT |
| Something picked at with a pickax | ORE |
| Spanish winds | AIRES |
| Sparkle | GLISTEN |
| Spoilers, of a sort | NANAS |
| Sport | WEAR |
| Spot coverage? | TOUPEE |
| Stadium cry | OLE |
| Standard outlet connection | ACPLUG |
| Thorn in a dictator’s side | DISSIDENT |
| Thurman of ‘Pulp Fiction’ | UMA |
| Tiny insects in a swarm | MIDGES |
| Turntable rates, in brief | RPMS |
| V.I.P. rosters | ALISTS |
| Vanquishers of kings? | ACES |
| VW predecessors? | STU |
| Wanderer | NOMAD |
| Weapon sought by Voldemort | ELDERWAND |
| Went green, perhaps? | DYED |
| Witch | CRONE |
| Wolf (down) | SNARF |
| Woman with a well-known internet ‘list’ | ANGIE |
| Word with rolling or bowling | PIN |
| Yapped like a dog | ARFED |
| ___ order | GAG |
| ___ Parade, annual June celebration | PRIDE |
| ___ Purchase, 1853 land deal with Mexico | GADSDEN |
| ___ Reader | UTNE |