2023-04-20 New York Times crossword
Farm delivery letters
Last in a series
Quick bite
Components of a hard six, in craps
Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled “A Coming-of-Gender Story”
N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas
River deposits
Señor’s send-off
More or less, in time
Swindle
Papal emissary
Lot in Genesis, e.g.
Ficus fruit
Mighty Patch target
Antique tools for pressing clothes
Wee ‘un
Tiny particle
Where the smallest bones in the body are found
*Babe-in-the-woods quality
Mer makeup
Last in a series
It comes and goes
Member of TV’s Addams Family
*Annual gathering of superhero fans
*Longtime Mazda catchphrase
“___ see it from my perspective …”
Padded accounts?
Sambuca flavoring
*Like a household with a stay-at-home parent, maybe
Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts
Overly suspicious
Consider something to be
Henry Ford’s sole heir
Surname of father/son actors James and Scott
Shortest path connecting two points on a sphere
Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers
In keeping with
Really enjoy
Moves quickly, as a cloud
Jean who wrote “Wide Sargasso Sea”
Org. endorsing P.P.E. for workers
Word before and after “to,” in a religious phrase
1977 Linda Ronstadt hit
Bamboozle
How this puzzle’s grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across
Muppet named after a character in “Midnight Cowboy”
Polite refusal
Surprise encounter
Affirming words
Conservative, in a sense
Subject of a fully exposed image?
Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm
Make broader
Refuses to
Capital of Brazil until 1960, informally
Old-fashioned “Whoopee!”
Where wild animals are most likely to see you
Brand of congestion medication
Fraternity letter
Dunderhead
Mideast federation since 1971, in brief
___ crawl
Cog on a wheel
Fumble
Praises to the heavens
Sparkly wine cocktail
Function
Site of a Herculean task
Words before a deadline
Lubricate again
Shifty type?
Olympics venue
Off-the-books business, perhaps
Play with, as a catnip mouse
Served flawlessly?
Stick under the bed?
