New York Times Wednesday March 3 2021 Crossword Solutions

 New York Times, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'That's right!'	YUP
2021 in the Chinese zodiac, with a hint to 17-, 27- and 40-Across	YEAROFTHEOX
A white one might be excused	LIE
Academic musts, for short	REQS
Actress Hatcher	TERI
All-out sprint	TEAR
Ancient Greek gathering places	AGORAS
As well	TOO
Avoids, with 'of'	STEERSCLEAR
Biochemical messenger	RNA
Bird in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'	DODO
Body part whose name comes from the Latin for 'little mouse'	MUSCLE
British pharma giant, informally	GLAXO
Chef José ___, founder of World Central Kitchen	ANDRES
Cirque du ___	SOLEIL
Colored part of the iris	AREOLA
Crowded places on Black Friday	MALLS
Energy source in Minecraft	REDSTONE
Fairy tale villain	OGRE
Father	SIRE
Faux ___	PAS
First astrological sign	ARIES
Good time on Wall Street	BULLMARKET
Gossip fodder, slangily	TEA
Hot spot	DESERT
Imagined development	SCENARIO
In action	ATWORK
Jeweled bands	TIARAS
Knock down, in Britain	RASE
Lecture series focused on 'ideas worth spreading'	TEDX
Letter sign-off	LOVE
Like forks	TINED
Like the Energizer Bunny	UNTIRING
Marked, as a ballot	EXED
Measure of land	ACREAGE
Mediocre grade	CPLUS
Most frequent, statistically	MODAL
Mysteries	ENIGMAS
Naval post	MAST
Nervous speech fillers	ERS
Not look bad after all this time	AGEWELL
Noted evening radio address	FIRESIDECHAT
Open audition, informally	CATTLECALL
Partner of neither	NOR
Pizzeria tool	CHEESEGRATER
Places for congregations	PEWS
Prez who delivered some 22-Downs	FDR
Push	URGE
Quick snooze	CATNAP
Rapper in court	GAVEL
Ridicule	DERIDE
Sardonic	WRY
See 22-Across	GRAS
Senator Feinstein	DIANNE
Sharp	ACUTE
Singer with the 2017 #1 album 'Melodrama'	LORDE
Speak, old-style	SAYEST
Sponsored posts, essentially	ADS
Steels (oneself)	GIRDS
Styled after	ALA
Suffix with racket and rocket	EER
Symbol tattooed on Popeye's forearm	ANCHOR
Ten to one, for one	RATIO
The Father of Modern Physics	GALILEO
Traditional Thanksgiving desserts	PIES
Utah ski area	ALTA
Wallop	BASTE
Well-spoken	ELOQUENT
Went bad	ROTTED
Wine-dark ___, metaphor in Homer's 'Odyssey'	SEA
Wise	SAGE
With 9-Down, goose liver	FOIE