New York Times, Sunday, November 3, 2019
Clues | Answers |
'Boring' shade | BEIGE |
'Mila 18' novelist | URIS |
'Nations have their ___, just like individuals': James Joyce | EGO |
'What greater gift than the love of a ___': Charles Dickens | CAT |
'___ are the voyages of the starship Enterprise' | THESE |
119-Across winner for both 'Roots' and 'Rich Man, Poor Man' | ASNER |
1950s White House nickname | IKE |
1980s U.S. Davis Cup team captain | ASHE |
According to | ASPER |
Actor Tom of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' | WOPAT |
Actress Grier of 'Jackie Brown' | PAM |
Adjustable feature of a typewriter | TABSET |
All-vowel avowal | AYE |
Andrew ___, businessman-turned-politician | YANG |
Assembles | MAKES |
Astrologer Sydney | OMARR |
Atkins dieters' no-nos | CARBS |
Be a stool pigeon | TALK |
Beat walker | COP |
Beautify | PRETTYUP |
Become slick, in a way | ICEUP |
Bela Lugosi's role in 'The Ghost of Frankenstein' | YGOR |
Biblical peak | HOREB |
Blend | MELD |
Bring in | EARN |
Broods | STEWS |
Brownie ingredient | COCOA |
Browning who directed 'Dracula,' 1931 | TOD |
But: Fr | MAIS |
Bygone sister language of Latin | OSCAN |
Charles who wrote 'The Cloister and the Hearth' | READE |
Chicken, in a Chinese dish | GAI |
Chooses | ELECTS |
Common baitfish | CHUBS |
Completely dominate | OWN |
Computation class in Cambridge | MATHS |
Corporate 'a.k.a.' | DBA |
Cousin of penne | ZITI |
Draw a bead on | AIMAT |
Drink flavorer | ZEST |
Drummer Starkey | ZAK |
Drumstick | LEG |
Dye on a deck | WOODSTAIN |
Early human | ADAM |
Early human | CROMAGNON |
Editor's stack of unsolicited manuscripts | SLUSHPILE |
Egg on | GOAD |
Emulate Edison | INVENT |
Expensive | PRICY |
Female badger | SOW |
Flop that's one for the ages | EPICFAIL |
Fluffy neckwear | BOA |
Fold-up beds | COTS |
Football Hall-of-Famer Long | HOWIE |
Gamers' embodiments | AVATARS |
German city near the Belgian border | AACHEN |
Gets better | HEALS |
Giant flying turtle monster of film | GAMERA |
Giant star | IDOL |
Go gray, say | AGE |
Got results | DIDTHEJOB |
Great ___ | DANE |
Greenhouse containers | POTS |
Grifter's game | SCAM |
Guys who pass out Halloween treats? | GOODYFELLAS |
Hankering | YEN |
Haul | TOW |
Idiosyncrasies | TICS |
Indie singer/songwriter ___ Case | NEKO |
It can cause shortness of breath | ASTHMA |
It turns a hot dog into a Texas hot dog | CHILI |
Kingdom | REALM |
Lady friend, in Florence | AMICA |
Lavish soiree | GALA |
Lecherous | SATYRIC |
Location of Hephaestus' forge | ETNA |
Long-billed wader | IBIS |
Machu Picchu or Pompeii | RUINS |
Man-to-man alternative | ZONE |
Medieval stronghold | KEEP |
Michael Lewis best seller with the subtitle 'The Art of Winning an Unfair Game' | MONEYBALL |
Michigan college | ALMA |
Monarch's inits | HRH |
Not digital | ANALOG |
O. Henry? | IRONYMAN |
Off | ASTRAY |
Online reference about toilets? | JOHNWIKI |
Ordinal suffix | ETH |
Out of whack | AMISS |
Painful sensation | THROE |
Part of A.P.A.: Abbr | ASSN |
Pick up on | SENSE |
Pipsqueak | TWERP |
Place to learn lessons in Lyon | ECOLE |
Pointy-eared dog | AKITA |
President pro ___ | TEM |
Product that had sales of more than 300,000 on its first day in 2010 | IPAD |
Publicist's concern | IMAGE |
Raced | TORE |
Rapunzel feature | TRESS |
Ruffian | BRUTE |
Russian artist Brodsky, the first painter awarded the Order of Lenin | ISAAK |
Scene stealer | HAM |
See 88-Across | SEA |
Self-involved | VAIN |
Sight at a gladiatorial fight | GORE |
Singer Mann | AIMEE |
Slimeball | SCUZZ |
Slowly eases (off) | WEANS |
Some futbol cheers | OLES |
Songwriters' org | ASCAP |
Soprano ___ Te Kanawa | KIRI |
Spade said to be excellent at digging up dirt | SAM |
Spoil, as a parade | RAINON |
Statistical tool for checking a hypothesis | TTEST |
Statuette that weighs 6 pounds 12 1/2 ounces | EMMY |
Stead | LIEU |
Take care of, as a persistent squeak | REOIL |
Terminal guesstimate, for short | ETA |
Textbook section | UNIT |
The Boar's Head, in Shakespeare | TAVERN |
Throat problem | FROG |
Time and Tide | BRANDS |
Tornado warning device | SIREN |
Tree knot | GNARL |
Truckful | LOAD |
Tyrannic sort? | RAGINGBULLY |
Valued asset for an employee | WORKETHIC |
Walked over | TROD |
Wapiti | ELK |
What outsiders think about the new hire? | STRANGERSONATRAINEE |
What some sailors bring back | YARNS |
What the exhausted working woman wears to bed? | AHARDDAYSNIGHTIE |
What's left, in Paris | RESTE |
Whup | TAN |
With 45-Across, what was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water | ARAL |
Wonderland cake message | EATME |
Word before bread or boat | BANANA |
Your apartment-mate, if you don't close the door before showering? | AROOMIEWITHAVIEW |
Your wish, maybe, when a rambunctious terrier puppy is first brought home? | ESCAPEFROMNEWYORKIE |
Zap | NUKE |
___ syrup (natural sweetener) | AGAVE |
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