New York Times, Sunday, October 3, 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 New York Times, Sunday, October 3, 2021 Crossword Answer 

 

Clues	Answers
___ garden	ZEN
Actress Amanda of 2012's "Les Misérables"	SEYFRIED
Actress Ana of "Love, Victor"	ORTIZ
Alas ...	TISAPITY
Alternative to Advil or Aleve	MOTRIN
Ambrose Bierce defined it as "A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue"	PATIENCE
Aphids, to ladybugs	PREY
Art of verse	POESY
Basic skateboard trick	OLLIE
Beyond cold	GELID
Big name in car parts	AUTOZONE
Big Ten powerhouse, for short	OSU
Birthplace of the Franciscan order	ASSISI
Bistro sign word	CHEZ
Bit of tomfoolery	ANTIC
Brand of pretzels and chips	UTZ
Break away	SECEDE
Buckskin, e.g.	DEERHIDE
C'est magnifique!	OOHLALA
Center of L.A., once	SHAQ
Chain that sells chains	ZALES
China's Chou En-___	LAI
Collect little by little	GLEAN
Comedian Fields	TOTIE
Conflagration	BLAZE
Cote d'___	AZUR
Counterfeit	ERSATZ
Country music's ___ Brown Band	ZAC
Diamond who went platinum	NEIL
Electric ___	EEL
Eleven, en français	ONZE
Endeavor	TRY
Exploits	USES
Eye shade	HAZEL
Far-right state	MAINE
Fashion designer Lange	LIZ
Final creature encountered in "Dr. Seuss's ABC"	ZIZZERZAZZERZUZZ
Fixed, as tiling	RELAID
Football sideline reporter Kolber	SUZY
Footnote abbr.	OPCIT
Former queen of Jordan	NOOR
Former telecom giant that merged into Verizon	GTE
Francis' tenure, e.g.	PAPACY
Frenzy	MANIA
Generational divide	AGEGAP
Get closer and closer	ZEROIN
Go after	SUE
Goes wherever the wind blows?	SAILS
Grandma, to Brits	NAN
Harriet's partner on 1950s-'60s TV	OZZIE
Has over	HOSTS
Having some pep	ZINGY
How to ___ a ___ (popular Google search)	TIE
Icelandic work that influenced Tolkien	EDDA
In a bad way	ILL
Inaptly named bear of a tongue twister	FUZZYWUZZY
Jeepers!	YIPE
Jeepers!	EGADS
Jurisdiction of a Catholic church official	DEANERY
Key for getting out, not in	ESC
Key with five sharps: Abbr.	BMAJ
Kicked back	LAZED
Kilt-wearing Greek infantryman	EVZONE
Kind of ray	MANTA
Kvetches	CARPS
Letter-shaped construction piece	HBEAM
Levels	RAZES
Like May through August, unlike the other months of the year	RLESS
Like varnished wood	RESINY
Literary traveler to Lilliput and Brobdingnag	GULLIVER
Little black ___	DRESS
Lively, on a score	ANIMATO
Makes	EARNS
Many a collaboration between Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald	JAZZDUET
Mapmaker's subj.	GEOG
Member in the genus Troglodytes, so named for its tendency to enter dark crevices	WREN
Members of bevies and broods	BIRDS
Mercedes-___	BENZ
Mine: Fr.	AMOI
Multitude	SCAD
National tree of the U.S.	OAK
Nervous state	TIZZY
Nickname for Isabelle or Isidore	IZZY
Nintendo princess	ZELDA
No-nonsense TV judge	JUDY
Northern California town once home to the palindromic ___ Bakery	YREKA
Old fogy	GEEZER
One of the Gabor sisters	EVA
One of the Nereids of Greek myth	IONE
Opportunities to win a vacation on "Wheel of Fortune"	PRIZEPUZZLES
Opposite of flatness	FIZZ
Order of roses	DOZEN
Ostentatious display	RAZZLEDAZZLE
Pac-Man navigates through one	MAZE
Pan-fries	SAUTES
Paradise lost	EDEN
Partner of glamour	GLITZ
Parts of snowmobiles	SKIS
Paul Simon's "___ Rock"	IAMA
Person who likes all your FB posts, perhaps	BFF
Pointy-eared dog	SPITZ
Popeye creator Segar	ELZIE
Pound and others	EZRAS
Pre-euro currency	PESETA
Pretty please?	CANI
Quick nap ... or a playful description of the 64-Down here	FORTYWINKS
Quiet valley	GLEN
Radiation unit	REM
Rattles	FAZES
Rattlesnake's warning	SSS
Reason to hang up	NOANSWER
Scatterbrains	DITZES
Sci-fi travelers	ETS
Scottish denial	NAE
Seven: Prefix	HEPTA
Singer Lisa	LOEB
Six-Day War leader Weizman	EZER
Sleep indicators	ZEES
Something stretched out in a yoga class	MAT
Spanish composer Isaac	ALBENIZ
Spanish rice	ARROZ
Spike the Beanie Baby, e.g.	RHINO
Sportscaster Jim with the classic opening "Hello, friends"	NANTZ
Stocking stuffer	TOY
Stupor	DAZE
Sufficient, informally	ENUF
The White Lotus airer	HBO
They're taken out in alleys	PINS
Tie the knot	MARRY
Took off	FLED
Totally over it all	JADED
Transfixed	AGAZE
Tree that Athena gifted to Athens	OLIVE
Uniform adornment	EPAULET
Unsightly spot	ZIT
Victoria Falls river	ZAMBEZI
View from Lake Como	ALP
Violated a code of silence	SANG
Western film, in old slang	OATER
What "piano" can mean	SOFT
What B. B. King was king of	BLUES
When repeated, one of the Gabor sisters	ZSA
Which Disney Princess Are You? and the like	BUZZFEEDQUIZZES
Winter weather hazard	FREEZINGDRIZZLE
Woman's name meaning "night" in Hebrew and Arabic	LEILA
Wood-shaping tool	ADZ
Worshiper of the rain god Tlaloc	AZTEC