New York Times Wednesday March 31 2021 Crossword Solutions

 New York Times, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Believe it or not ...'	INFACT
'C'mon, open the door!'	LETMEIN
'Fresh Air' broadcaster	NPR
'Heaven forbid!'	HOPENOT
'The Garden of Earthly Delights' painter	BOSCH
'Two thumbs up!'	ILOVEDIT
1990s supermodel with a palindromic name	EMME
2006 Winter Olympics host	TORINO
43rd prez	GWB
Abhor	LOATHE
Above-the-knee skirt	MINI
Abraham Lincoln, for one	UNIONIST
Bear who sings 'The Bare Necessities' in a 1967 Disney film	BALOO
Becomes less important by comparison	PALES
Bellyache	CARP
Bemoan	LAMENT
Benjamin Franklin is depicted on the first U.S. one	STAMP
Bitcoin, e.g	ECASH
Brand of knives touted in classic infomercials	GINSU
Brown loaf with an earthy taste	DARKRYE
Catches sight of	ESPIES
Checks out, in a way	CASES
City near St. Petersburg	TAMPA
Company behind the first microprocessor	INTEL
Conflict that ended at 11:00 on 11/11	WWI
Covenant	PACT
Crooked	BENT
Dance move that went from trendy to cringey in the 2010s	DAB
Diamond stat	RBI
Emphatic two-pointer	SLAMDUNK
Far from original	TRITE
Fill to the gills	SATE
Food for a sea urchin	KELP
Food-spoiling bacterium	ECOLI
French military headwear	KEPIS
Going places?	COMMODES
Heracles, to Zeus	SON
Herculean undertaking	ORDEAL
Hubbubs	ADOS
Japanese salad herb	UDO
Key of Beethoven's Ninth	DMINOR
Like regular exercise and happiness, per research	LINKED
Like Sodom and Gomorrah	BIBLICAL
Like some breakfast cereals	OATEN
Many a smartphone recording	VIDEO
Mayim who played Amy Farrah Fowler on 'The Big Bang Theory'	BIALIK
Modern lead-in to -grammer	BRO
Mrs., on Majorca	SRA
Newspaper unit	PAGE
Nine-digit ID, in brief	SSN
Not a happy face	GRIMACE
One who raised Cain	ADAM
Paranormal power, for short	ESP
Part of a political convention roll call	STATE
Pet rocks, once	FAD
Pint-size	PEEWEE
Posterior	RUMP
Potpourri pieces	PETALS
Put one's trust in	DEPENDON
Put two and two together?	ADD
Satirist ___ Baron Cohen	SACHA
Shade of brown	TAN
Sidled (along)	EDGED
Singer John whose middle name is Hercules	ELTON
Slip past	ELUDE
Smaller parts making up a larger whole ... with a hint to the six groups of circled squares in this puzzle	BUILDINGBLOCKS
Soccer great with a statue in Buenos Aires	MESSI
Something to believe in	TENET
Stead	LIEU
Stitch's pal, in film	LILO
Swelled heads	EGOS
They turn litmus paper red	ACIDS
Thin-layered sedimentary rock	SHALE
Thingy	ITEM
Tiny ammo	BBS
Topple (over)	KEEL
Tree that's a favorite of giraffes	ACACIA
Use, as dishes	EATON
Virtuoso	ACE
Wounded by a bull, say	GORED
___ hop (swing era dance)	LINDY