New York Times, Sunday, October 31, 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 New York Times, Sunday, October 31, 2021 Crossword Solution 

Clues	Answers
___ court	MOOT
___ dish	PETRI
___ ex machina	DEUS
___ Kornfeld, music promoter for Woodstock	ARTIE
___ Moines	DES
___ of Alexandria (wonder of the ancient world)	PHAROS
Accomplished the task	DIDIT
Act investigated by an insurance company	ARSON
Action done while saying "Good dog"	PAT
Alveolar trill, as it's commonly known	ROLLEDR
Anklebone	TALUS
Approximately	MOREORLESS
Ballpark figures, in brief	ERAS
Battlestar Galactica robots	CYLONS
Berate blisteringly	SHOUTAT
Bindis, e.g.	REDDOTS
Boggy expanse	FEN
Bugs	PESTERS
Build on	ADDTO
Bygone sovereign	SHAH
Candy bit that comes in a plastic roll	SMARTIE
Card in a royal flush	ACE
Cause of boom and bust?	TNT
Changes from commercial to residential, perhaps	REZONES
Churchill ___ Rooms (London tourist attraction)	WAR
City with a Little Havana	MIAMI
Classic concert chambers	ODEA
Clerical vestment	ALB
Clinch	SEWUP
Code-cracking grp.	NSA
Concept, in Cannes	IDEE
Consecrates	BLESSES
Convene for another session	REMEET
Critical remark	SHOT
Cupidity	AVARICE
Daddy-o	HEPCAT
Dance-a-___ N	THON
Derby lengths	METRES
Desperate	DOORDIE
Distributor of CARES Act funds	IRS
Equivalent of the Face With Tears of Joy emoji	LOL
Execute, as a royal of old	BEHEAD
F, in music	LOUD
Fabric options	PATTERNS
Fall mo.	SEP
Fare that's eaten hands-free	PETFOOD
Farthest down?	SADDEST
Field that deals with fields	AGRONOMY
Fluent speaker of Elvish, say	NERD
Give a buzz	THRILL
Glasgow gal	LASS
Gradually wear away	ERODE
Great Basin native	UTE
Guff	LIP
Haphazard	HITORMISS
Harris in the Country Music Hall of Fame	EMMYLOU
Have	POSSESS
Head for the hills?	OUTHOUSE
Heath	MOOR
Heavy weights in Britain	TONNES
Hectic trip abroad	WHIRLWINDTOUR
Hey ... over here!	PSST
Horrid	VILE
I Wanna Be Sedated band	RAMONES
I'm game!	SURELETS
Inconvenience	IMPOSEON
Inits. at Westminster	HRH
Inits. for a theatrical hit	SRO
It might click for a writer	PEN
Journalist Fallaci who wrote "Interview With History"	ORIANA
Just in case	LEST
Keypad triplet	ABC
Kind to Mother Nature	ECO
Kinda	ISH
Least messy	TIDIEST
Lipton competitor	NESTEA
Living ___	WAGE
Long ball	HOMER
Mano a mano	TOETOTOE
Match-ending rugby call	NOSIDE
Maximum degree	NTH
Measures of electrical resistance	OHMS
Member of the superfamily Hominoidea	APE
Military dismissal	MARCHINGORDERS
Mischief-makers	RASCALS
Mischief-makers	IMPS
Moved aside (for)	MADEWAY
Murder, ___ Wrote	SHE
Negligent	REMISS
Nickname for Jose	PEPE
Northern ___ (curiously named apple variety)	SPY
Noted Apple release of 1968, to fans	THEWHITEALBUM
Noted U.S. rock group?	MOUNTRUSHMORE
One of the fire signs	LEO
One runs from Me. to Fla.	USROUTE
Piercing eye hue	ICEBLUE
Places hangers hang	CLOSETS
Popular tick repellent	DEET
Profligate sort	ROUE
Puerto Rico clock setting: Abbr.	AST
Purposes	AIMS
QVC alternative	HSN
Regardless of the outcome	WINORLOSE
Relative of a bug	WIRETAP
Running behind	LATE
S.F. metro	MUNI
Samuel ___, business partner of Marcus Goldman	SACHS
See captain?	POPE
Seminoles' sch.	FSU
Semiserious "Got it!"	AHSO
Send away, in a way	DEPORT
Sense of self	EGO
Silicon Valley's ___ Research Center	AMES
Some crumbly blocks	FETA
Sorority member	SISTER
Southern region of Mesopotamia	SUMER
Stage between larva and imago	PUPA
State of equilibrium	STASIS
State to be the case	AVER
Studio fixtures	EASELS
Stun	DAZE
The brainy bunch?	MENSA
The newest trend, in slang	HOTNESS
They can be wrinkled or thumbed	NOSES
To quote yours truly ...	ASISAY
Traditional British entree	LIVERANDONIONS
Trial	TESTRUN
Tries for a role	READS
Trigger	TOUCHOFF
Up to it	ABLE
Uttered a sound	SAIDBOO
Wanted badly	ACHEDFOR
Wash out	RINSE
What wiggly lines in comics may represent	ODORS
What's frequently used by poets?	OFT
Words to live by	CREDO
Yang's counterpart	YIN
You betcha!	YES
You game?	INOROUT
ε	EPSILON