New York Times Crossword Answers - October 4, 2014
Clue | Answer |
'Adventure most ___ itself': Emily Dickinson | UNTO |
'Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy' philosopher | LAOTZU |
'Pencils down!' | TIME |
'Really?' | OHYEAH |
'Servant of the Bones' author | ANNERICE |
'Twilight,' e.g | SAGA |
'Twilight,' e.g | SERIES |
'Veep' actor ___ Whitlock Jr | ISIAH |
'___ really help' | ITD |
0.5, for 30 degrees | SINE |
180s | ABOUTTURNS |
Aids after blanking out | CUES |
Anti-spill, say | EASYPOUR |
Bartending tool | STIRRER |
Blush-inducing | RIBALD |
Burgundy or claret | DARKRED |
Cause of a stinging breakup? | TEARGAS |
Decline dramatically | GOTORACKANDRUIN |
Ditch | GETRIDOF |
Dove's dream | NOWAR |
Empty-headedness | VACUITY |
Enjoyed muchly | DUG |
Exponential unknown | NTHPOWER |
Fanatically militant sort | RAMBO |
Gets a clue, with 'up' | WISES |
Goggle | GAZE |
Gold-certifying grp | RIAA |
Green machine | ECOCAR |
Have prestige | RATE |
In-flight | MIDAIR |
It's named for a Scand. god of battle | TUES |
Lambs, to Lucius | AGNI |
Last part of 'Waiting for Godot' | ACTII |
Less significant | DINKIER |
Like some straws | BENT |
Mixer for losers? | DIETCOKE |
More like a sheet? | WHITER |
Mother superior? | MATRIARCH |
Mount ___, Charley Weaver's hometown | IDY |
Musical component | BOOK |
Nadir's opposite | APOGEE |
Newest fashion | DERNIERCRI |
Nonhuman Earth orbiter of 1961 | ENOS |
One being strung along? | MARIONETTE |
Oodles | AGOB |
Org. that, when spelled backward, is an old-timey exclamation | OSHA |
Partner of many | VARIED |
Pioneer in literary realism | BALZAC |
See 41-Across | SAUCE |
Service providers? | RELIGIONS |
Shipping hazard | REEF |
Sister brand of CorningWare | EKCO |
Slip | ERR |
Sonnet extender? | EER |
Southeast Asian fruits with large, thick spines | DURIANS |
Statement of confidence | ICAN |
Storm designation | SHE |
The U.N.'s ___ Hammarskjöld | DAG |
Title subject of a search in a 2003 film | NEMO |
To whom Charles Darwin dedicated 'Different Forms of Flowers' | ASAGRAY |
Trip planner's option: Abbr | RTE |
Two-man band? | BROMANCE |
Very much | BADLY |
Was a slug | LAZED |
What Gollum calls the Ring in 'The Lord of the Rings' | MYPRECIOUS |
Widening agent in medicine | STENT |
With 24-Across, barbecue finger stainer | RIB |
Word with deep or dead | END |
___ Lane, London theater locale | DRURY |
___ rage (result of juicing) | ROID |