2023-04-22 New York Times crossword
Barinholtz of “The Mindy Project”
Hovel
Spoil, superstitiously
Canine affliction
Positive restaurant review?
Knock on
Deli machine
Ear lobe?
Overseas title
30-yr. securities
Most chic
One with an “If You Choose the Lesser of Two Evils — You Are Still Choosing Evil” bumper sticker, perhaps
Genre for “Fun Home” and “Stone Butch Blues”
Thesis defense, e.g.
Like the strongest cases
It has its limits
Music’s Outkast and Erasure, e.g.
Put on the board
Tends to a minor issue?
Excitement
R-rated, as a love scene
Crackerjack
Disjunctive conjunction
See 22-Across
Ika, in a sushi restaurant
Not much, as of gel
Ones working with bread
Surefire
Toon husband of Manjula
Fruit-flavored gumdrop
“The sea is the universal ___”: Jacques Cousteau
Contend
Battle sites?
“Abso-freakin-lutely not!”
Piazza, for one
“Perhaps I have what you’re looking for?”
Common name for potassium nitrate
Buzzy group
Surreal
Dead letter, in a mail sorter’s vernacular
Private
“How lousy of me”
Male name hidden in this clue
How a storm might be tracked
Fine parchment material
Word with belly or barrel
“Blah” alternative
A piece of cake
Click that is often doubled
Nativity scene decoration
Shape of the heart’s electromagnetic field
They have everyone buzzing
Role for Robin Williams in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet,” 1996
U.S. motto starter
Like the county where Jack Daniel’s is manufactured
Round bits
Overly sentimental fare
Judge
Salty and spicy
With 12-Down, unfit
___ Babbitt, inventor of the circular saw
School co-founded by Albert Einstein in 1918, informally
Person with a 99801 ZIP code
Confounded
Abruptly resign
Clear one’s head?
Dolts
People for whom a state is named
