New York Times - Sep 25 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 New York Times - Sep 25 2022 Crossword Answer 

Clues	Answers
'Black Jeopardy!,' for one	SNLSKIT
'Chandelier' singer, 2014	SIA
'Here, take this'	HAVEIT
'Let's begin our adventure!'	OFFWEGO
'More or less'	SORTA
'Schitt's Creek' role for Sarah Levy	TWYLA
'The very ___!'	IDEA
'What's up, ___?'	DOC
'You may disagree, but ...,' to a texter	IMHO
*A drop in the bucket	INFLATION
*Ballet movements	DRIBBLES
*Barbershop quartet	SHAVINGCREAM
*Press junket	FAKENEWS
*Rocket scientist	GEOLOGIST
*Security blankets	USERNAMEANDPASSWORD
*Ticketmaster	EXTERMINATOR
*What's in your wallet	ELECTRICALOUTLET
Actress ___ Flynn Boyle	LARA
Airer of the crime drama 'Luther'	BBC
Ancestor of Methuselah	ENOS
Apocalypse	DOOM
Author Ellison	RALPH
Auto hobbyist's project, maybe	KITCAR
Bias	SLANT
Bird watcher's org., once	NBA
Bitter	ACRID
Burdens with	DUMPSON
Buzzing about	ADO
Cargo	LOAD
Chorus section	TENORS
Circulation unit	READER
Complete	ATOZ
Confidence-building mantra	YESICAN
Confuse	THROW
Consulted for feedback about	RANBY
Cottoned on (to)	GOTWISE
Country whose capital is named after an early U.S. president	LIBERIA
Crumple (up)	WAD
Cut choice	FILET
Dash dial	TACH
Designation on some pronoun pins	THEY
Do some backup dancing?	TWERK
Doesn't just increase	SOARS
Draws	ALLURES
Excavated, with 'out'	HOLLOWED
Expected	DUE
Faint pattern	TRACING
Focus of many a law	BAN
Fountain of youth?	KEG
Game of who, what and where	CLUE
German chancellor Scholz	OLAF
Give for a time	LOANOUT
Global brand of men's dress shirts	ETON
Good name for an archaeologist?	DOUG
Green-lit	OKED
Grumps	CRABS
Has no plan B ... or, when parsed differently, what each of the starred clues does vis-à-vis its answer?	WORKSWITHOUTANET
Having South Asian roots	DESI
Hermanos de la madre	TIOS
Hit hard	BELT
How you should 'take me,' in a phrase	ASIAM
Huff	SNIT
Idiot	PEABRAIN
Is grating	WEARS
It's bad overseas	MAL
Jennifer Affleck ___ Lopez	NEE
John Legend's '___ Me'	ALLOF
Laura of 'Big Little Lies'	DERN
League designation for the Durham Bulls and Salt Lake Bees	AAA
Leave slack-jawed	AMAZE
Letters to ___ (rock group)	CLEO
Lifesaver, for short	EMT
Like Legolas in 'The Lord of the Rings'	ELFIN
Like the head of a badminton racket	OVAL
Likely to offend, in brief	NONPC
Lines on which music is written	STAVE
Longtime Miami Heat great, to fans	DWADE
Major water source	MAIN
Maker of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game	ATARI
Many a donor, for short	ALUM
Missouri county on the Arkansas border	OZARK
Modern reproductive tech inits	IVF
Moved fast	TORE
Muscle used in a pull-up, informally	TRI
Musical whose name is an anagram of the members of a musical	CATS
Occupy	INHABIT
Odd-numbered page, typically	RECTO
Off-limits	TABOO
One of South Africa's official languages	TSWANA
Open, as a gift	UNBOX
Opera that aptly premiered in Egypt	AIDA
Opera whose title character is a singer	TOSCA
Org. that merged with the 41-Across in the 1970s	ABA
Pair	DYAD
Period in curling	END
Pico de gallo ingredient	CILANTRO
Playground comeback	IAMSO
Power	WATTAGE
Power (up)	BOOT
Profit	NETGAIN
Qantas hub, on luggage tags	SYD
QVC alternative	HSN
R&B's India.___	ARIE
Rapper with the 2011 hit album 'Ambition'	WALE
Reasonable	SANE
Reel off	RECITE
See 102-Down	TOTTER
Sir Isaac Newton work on the fundamentals of light	OPTICKS
Small table fare?	ANTE
Some votes in the Bundestag	NEINS
Spanish 101 verb	ESTAR
Stands	STOMACHS
Start of a literary series	BOOKONE
Steps up to the plate	BATS
Stretches of time	ERAS
Subleased	RELET
Suffix with bad, mad, sad and glad	NESS
Summers on the Seine	ETES
Sweets	BABE
Take in	EAT
Tesla, for one	SERB
The before-times?	EVES
They're heard in a chorus	AMENS
Things with wires, often	BRAS
Title play character who never shows up	GODOT
Tool chain	LOWES
Trimmer	RAZOR
Twitch problem	LAG
Twitch, for instance	REACT
United hub, on luggage tags	SFO
Website with a Home Favorites page	ETSY
Weekend destination for an N.Y.C. getaway, maybe	UPSTATE
What the Beatles never did	REUNITE
With 104-Down, playground fixture	TEETER
Wood that sinks in water	EBONY
Word between 'what' and 'that'	WAS
Zero ___	INON
___ mater	ALMA
___ Park, city west of Anaheim	BUENA
___ sci	POLI