New York Times Crossword Answers - September 21, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| 'Are you enjoying your time out on the Nascar circuit?' [Ricky Martin, 1999] | LIVINLAVEHICLELOCA |
| 'Be prepared' | SCOUTMOTTO |
| 'Death in Venice' locale | LIDO |
| 'Did you do anything for luck before today's race?' [Katy Perry, 2008] | IKISSEDAGRILLE |
| 'Germinal' novelist | ZOLA |
| 'Hey, what did you think when you missed that last pit stop?' [The Who, 1971] | WONTGETFUELEDAGAIN |
| 'How did that new car handle out there on the track?' [Maroon 5, 2011] | MOVESLIKEJAGUAR |
| 'Like this' | DOASIDO |
| 'Ring' lovers | WAGNERIANS |
| 'Romanian Rhapsodies' composer | ENESCO |
| 'So-so' responses | EHS |
| 'What did you try to do after the caution flag came out?' [The Doors, 1967] | BRAKEONTHROUGH |
| 'Who, me?' | MOI |
| '___ Delight,' pioneering song by the Sugarhill Gang | RAPPERS |
| '___ do' | ITLL |
| 4 letters | GHI |
| 94-Down x 14 | SEVEN |
| Actress Massey | ILONA |
| Almost any poem that starts 'Roses are red ...' | DOGGEREL |
| Antoine Domino Jr., familiarly | FATS |
| Article in Aachen | EIN |
| Asian wild ass | ONAGER |
| Assail | HITAT |
| At it | ARGUING |
| Bay Area gridder | NINER |
| Beauties | GEMS |
| Big name in house paint | BEHR |
| Big Ten sch | OSU |
| Bogs down | MIRES |
| Brief name? | HANES |
| Candied, as fruit | GLACE |
| Cast part | ACTOR |
| City SSW of Moscow | OREL |
| Classic sports car | XKE |
| Coiled about | TWINED |
| Comedy classic of 1978 | ANIMALHOUSE |
| Coping mechanisms? | SAWS |
| Cover with a hard outer surface | ENCRUST |
| Crew member | COX |
| Dame ___ | EDNA |
| Ditz | YOYO |
| Dog Chow alternative | ALPO |
| Dog for a 'gentleman detective' | ASTA |
| Drama critic John of The New Yorker | LAHR |
| Drama with masks | NOH |
| Dynamic start? | AERO |
| Élève's destination | LYCEE |
| European capital | TIRANA |
| Exams for some coll. applicants | APTESTS |
| Eye opener? | DILATOR |
| Fanny | REAREND |
| Frankie who starred on 'Malcolm in the Middle' | MUNIZ |
| Gen ___ | XER |
| George Will piece | OPED |
| Get old | CLOY |
| Giant in heating and air-conditioning | TRANE |
| Glam band with six #1 hits in Britain | SLADE |
| Green beans | LIMAS |
| Hack | CAB |
| High-speed ride | LEARJET |
| Home of some Bushmen | NAMIBIA |
| Huge, in poetry | ENORM |
| Hydroxyl compound | ENOL |
| Impeccable | SPOTLESS |
| It's normal for NASA | ONEG |
| Jerusalem | ZION |
| Ken of 'thirtysomething' | OLIN |
| Kwik-E-Mart guy | APU |
| Late disc jockey Casey | KASEM |
| Lend a dirty hand to | ABET |
| Love letter sign-off | XOXO |
| Ming of the N.B.A | YAO |
| Movie with the line 'Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of' | CITIZENKANE |
| Needle | RIB |
| Noon, in Nantes | MIDI |
| Not be straight | LIE |
| Nov. honoree | VET |
| Okla. City-to-Dallas direction | SSE |
| Okla. neighbor | TEX |
| Old Fords | LTDS |
| Old track holders | LPS |
| One means of corp. financing | IPO |
| Online investment option | ETRADE |
| Only Literature Nobelist also to win an Oscar | SHAW |
| Orly bird, once? | SST |
| Outfit | DRESS |
| Perform some magic | CASTASPELL |
| Place to dangle one's legs | LEDGE |
| Popular children's 'find it' book series | ISPY |
| Poster bear | SMOKEY |
| Posthumous John Donne poem that includes 'It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee' | THEFLEA |
| Relatively up-to-date | NEWISH |
| Reply to a captain | AYE |
| Rescue film of 2012 | ARGO |
| Rock's Everly or Collins | PHIL |
| Rustic poems | IDYLLS |
| Sacred images: Var | IKONS |
| Scrumptious | TASTY |
| See 97-Down | ONEHALF |
| Semitransparent fabrics | MESHES |
| Seth of 'Late Night' | MEYERS |
| Sierra follower, in code | TANGO |
| Skate | GLIDE |
| Slow-witted | DIM |
| Soft-shell clam | STEAMER |
| Someone a little short? | NEEDER |
| Sounds of equivocation | ERS |
| Spammer, e.g | EMAILER |
| Sporty option | TTOP |
| Squeeze (out) | EKE |
| Steinful, maybe | ALE |
| Still | STAGNANT |
| Stop: Abbr | STA |
| Stopover spot | INN |
| Succulent plant | ALOE |
| Suffering a losing streak, in poker | ONTILT |
| Summoned, in a way | PAGED |
| Surgically remove | RESECT |
| Tameness | DOCILITY |
| Tattoo artist | INKER |
| Teeing off | RILING |
| Tend | MINISTERTO |
| The Swedish Nightingale | LIND |
| Ton | HEAP |
| Toy company on track to success? | LIONEL |
| Trail | SCENT |
| Travel option | AIR |
| Unacceptable to polite society | NOTDONE |
| White, informally | ANGLO |
| Words of retreat? | OMS |
| Writer LeShan | EDA |
| Yenta | GOSSIP |
| ___ Domingo | SANTO |
| ___ libre (poetry style) | VERS |
| ___ rating system (world chess standard) | ELO |
| ___-Caspian Depression | ARAL |