The complete answer to the NY Times October 12, 2023, Crossword puzzle is shown below.
Across Rules-
“She Bee Stingin’” athlete | LAILAALI |
Answer to the riddle? I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?? | ASHIP |
H.S. course for College-Kredit | APGERMAN |
New York county that’s home to Binghamton | BROOME |
Scholar’s mug collection? | YEARBOOK |
Run (to) | AMOUNT |
Groans equivalent to eye rolls | OYS |
Sugar apple, by another name | SWEETS |
Grade just above average | CPLUS |
___ Schwarz | FAO |
Angle symbol, in trigonometry | THETA |
What a cryptid might be | HOAX |
Ones doing some heavy lifting before retirement? | JACKS |
“___ ready as I’ll ever be” | IMAS |
Spinning speed: Abbr. | RPS |
1974 John Wayne movie | MCQS |
Gentlemen of Verona, in England | SIGNORS |
Choose | TFOR |
Convertible | RAGT |
One favoring imitation over innovation | METOOER |
Vim | PEP |
“Succession” airer | HBO |
Lamar who played for the 59-Across | ODOM |
Floored | WOWED |
“Is it just ___ is it hot in here?” | MEOR |
Good field for a smooth talker | SALES |
Brief British P.M. ___ Truss | LIZ |
Donna ___, “The Goldfinch” author | TARTT |
Unrestricted audition | ENCALL |
[It’s cold in here!] | BRR |
MX-5 roadsters, e.g. | MIATAS |
N.B.A. team with a 1980s “Showtime” era | LALAKERS |
Baby eels | ELVERS |
Covert missions … or what’s covert in eight of this puzzle’s answers | BLACKOPS |
Navigates a slippery slope, in a way | SLEDS |
China and environs | EASTASIA |
Vertical Clues-
Put (down) | LAY |
Mimic | APE |
Tennis champion Swiatek | IGA |
Gaston who wrote “The Phantom of the Opera” | LEROUX |
Restaurant chain named after its founders, the Raffel brothers | ARBYS |
“Famous” cookie guy | AMOS |
Mekong Valley language | LAO |
Key part of a cephalopod’s defense mechanism | INKSAC |
15th-century headgear for a knight | ARMET |
Common aloe descriptor | SOOTHING |
Sorority chaperone | HOUSEMOTHER |
Captcha test affirmation | IMN |
Document that may contain a microchip number and a veterinarian’s signature | PET |
Modern love | BAE |
Pans that sound like strolls | WOKS |
X and Y | CHR |
Dosed oneself | POPS |
Like the cleanup crew at closing time, typically | LASTTOLEAVE |
Doc to consult when confused | FAQ |
– | TAR |
– | ASS |
Retail apparel giant | JCREW |
Begat | SIRED |
Low in the pasture | MOO |
Interstice | GAP |
Spurred | FOMENTED |
– | MOS |
– | EDA |
“Just ___ with it” | ROLL |
Candy dispensed with a “nod” of the head | PEZ |
– | BOT |
– | ORT |
Words repeated in the title of a Doris Day hit | WILLBE |
Pre-euro currency of Finland | MARKKA |
Leaves damaged | SCARS |
It might be a lot | TRACT |
Ninny | ASS |
Panama’s Gulf of San ___ | BLAS |
– | MES |
– | ILL |
Mobile home: Abbr. | ALA |
Morning glory goddess | EOS |
Campus in Troy, N.Y. | RPI |
27- or 55-Down backward | SSA |