1/31/17 Answer New York Times Crossword

1/31/17

Are you stuck with the New York Times Crossword Puzzle Today? Stuck No More. We offer complete solutions as well as “word hint” mode to give you that little extra push. Or simply use this cheat sheet to help you get the best and fastest completion time possible.

YOU ARE NOW VIEWING SPOILER COMPLETE ANSWER MODE.
Jump to Hints Only Mode now if you simply want first letter of each answers.

1D
Help at the entrance to a mall
MAP

2D
Aladdin’s monkey
ABU

3D
Courage in battle
GALLANTRY

4D
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dan
ISSEL

5D
Plush fabric
CHENILLE

6D
Eyebrow’s shape, roughly
ARC

7D
Criticize severely
ROAST

8D
Skillful
ADROIT

9D
Peanut, for one
LEGUME

10D
One of the A’s in N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr.
ASSN

11D
Roomie
COHAB

12D
Woman who sings “Burn” in “Hamilton”
ELIZA

13D
Affix again, as a badge
REPIN

19D
Word before air, fire or water
OPEN

21D
Tolerated
STOOD

23D
Hearty drink
QUAFF

24D
Willing to do
UP FOR

25D
Everyone, in Dixie
Y’ALL

30D
Give a lickin’
TAN

33D
___ your lip!
ZIP

35D
First winner of horse racing’s Triple Crown, 1919
SIR BARTON

36D
Disguised, briefly
INCOG

37D
Staring
AGAZE

39D
Item that might be fervently wanted by a prisoner
KEY

40D
Start of an idea
GERM

41D
President after Grant
HAYES

42D
Encroach on someone’s land
TRESPASS

47D
The Simpsons bus driver
OTTO

48D
That’s a fine ___ of fish!
KETTLE

49D
Devon cathedral city
EXETER

52D
Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May,” e.g.
B-SIDE

53D
Had title to
OWNED

54D
Work on a loom
WEAVE

56D
Hawk’s hook
TALON

57D
Maki, temaki or uramaki
SUSHI

59D
Black, in poetry
EBON

62D
Prefix with planet
EXO-

64D
Now ___ seen it all!
I’VE

65D
Just-minted
NEW

1A
Pulling a rabbit out of a hat, e.g.
MAGIC

6A
Kazakhstan’s ___ Sea
ARAL

10A
Computer company with the slogan “Explore beyond limits”
ACER

14A
Embarrass
ABASH

15A
Was a passenger
RODE

16A
It’s always getting stepped on
SOLE

17A
Sign of life
PULSE

18A
*Vessel with a large hold
CARGO SHIP (“ship in a bottle”)

20A
Camera part
LENS

22A
Seinfeld stock character?
SOUP NAZI

23A
*What a family spends together at the dinner table
QUALITY TIME (“Time in a Bottle”)

26A
Competitor of Secret
BAN

27A
Predecessor of the CW
UPN

28A
Mauna ___
LOA

29A
Scout’s shelter
TENT

31A
Back on a boat
AFT

32A
Hilarity, in Internet-speak
LOLZ

34A
One side of the Pacific
ASIA

38A
*Branches in a storm?
FORKED LIGHTNING (“Lightning in a Bottle”)

43A
6’11” Channing of the N.B.A.
FRYE

44A
Partridge’s tree, in a Christmas song
PEAR

45A
Color TV pioneer
RCA

46A
Put together, as a team
YOKE

50A
Ham on ___
RYE

51A
Singer Scaggs with the 1976 hit “Lowdown”
BOZ

52A
Front of a boat
BOW

55A
*Its arrival may be signaled by a ding
TEXT MESSAGE (“message in a bottle”)

58A
So-called “house wine of the South”
SWEET TEA

60A
What you might use when you say “Giddyup!”
SPUR

61A
Words that can follow the ends of the answers to the starred clues
IN A BOTTLE

63A
Sean who played Mikey in “The Goonies”
ASTIN

66A
Band with the hit “Whip It”
DEVO

67A
Pope who excommunicated Martin Luther
LEO X

68A
Elbow, maybe
SHOVE

69A
Garden of ___
EDEN

70A
Puzzlemaker Rubik
ERNO

71A
Strength
SINEW