New York Times Crossword September 3 2022 Answer List
New York Times Crossword September 3 2022 Answers
New York Times, Sunday, September 4, 2022
*Portrayer of Scrooge in 1951’s “A Christmas Carol”
Author:
Tracy Gray
Editor:
Will Shortz
Across
1
Exfoliants : SCRUBS
7
Foofaraw : ADO
10
Cookout chuckouts : COBS
14
Thickener used in desserts : AGAR
18
Like favorite radio stations, perhaps : PRESET
19
Calico calls : MEWS
21
Memo starter : INRE
22
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Yale ___ : LARY
23
Backpacker’s snack : OATBAR
24
Big huff? : PANT
25
Have an outsize presence : LOOMLARGE
27
“I didn’t need to know that!” : TMI
28
What a net might attach to : RIM
30
Flying Cloud of old autodom : REO
31
Jazz clarinetist Shaw : ARTIE
32
Soaring shot : LOB
33
Some Six Nations members : SENECAS
35
*Mount Everest scaler : EDMUNDHILLARY
37
Hogs : SWINE
39
*Went out of control : RANRAMPANT
40
A.M.A. members: Abbr. : DRS
42
Marketing experiment comparing two variants : ABTEST
44
Some red marks : ACNE
45
Big lugs : GALOOTS
48
Say “Whomever did this …,” say : ERR
49
Alice who wrote “The Color Purple” : WALKER
51
Org. with a sizable registry : AKC
54
Yellow jacket, for one : WASP
55
Syrup brand since 1902 : KARO
57
Word before Roger or Rancher : JOLLY
58
To a profound degree : DEEPLY
60
*”Cinderella” meanie : EVILSTEPSISTER
62
Field trip conveyances : BUSES
63
Middle van Pelt child in “Peanuts” : LINUS
64
Use Tinder, say : SWIPE
65
Airs : TELECASTS
69
Big exporter of pistachios : IRAN
70
Features of some bygone muscle cars : TTOPS
71
Give an elbow bump to, say : GREET
72
Free of fizz : FLAT
73
*Lateral-breaking pitches : BACKDOORSLIDERS
75
Skulk : CREEP
76
Maker of the world’s first quartz watch : SEIKO
77
Javanese dyeing technique : BATIK
78
Potala Palace city : LHASA
79
One of seven represented in the Pleiades : SISTER
80
*Glide down from above : PARACHUTEIN
81
Sleigh driver’s need : REIN
82
Sound of an ungraceful landing : THUD
84
___ card : SIM
85
Fashion house whose logo is two interlocking C’s : CHANEL
87
Like the Carolina Reaper pepper : HOT
88
Visionary : DREAMER
91
Title for Baltimore : LORD
92
Crow language family : SIOUAN
95
Sounds of hesitation : ERS
96
da-DUM : IAMB
99
On pins and needles : ANTSY
101
Homebrewer’s sugar : MALTOSE
103
Cartoonish villains : NASTIES
106
“Little ol’ me?” : MOI
107
Woodard of “Clemency” : ALFRE
109
Article in Aachen : EIN
110
“Where ignorance is bliss, ___ folly to be wise”: Thomas Gray : TIS
111
“Eh … I’ll pass” : NAH
112
It’s a banger in Germany : BRATWURST
114
*Portrayer of Scrooge in 1951’s “A Christmas Carol” : ALASTAIRSIM
116
Surgical seam : SUTURE
118
Unagi and anago, for two : EELS
119
What parallel lines never do : MEET
120
It beats scissors : ROCK
121
Passionate : HEATED
122
Secretary, e.g. : DESK
123
___ Noël : PERE
124
Place to wallow : STY
125
Butterfly garden bloomers : ASTERS
Down
1
Places : SPOTS
2
“Mad Money” host Jim : CRAMER
3
Eye part with rods and cones : RETINA
4
Kind of port : USB
5
Boot camp exercises performed on all fours : BEARCRAWLS
6
Narrow groove : STRIA
7
One for the roadie : AMP
8
Most beloved : DEAREST
9
Dominated, informally : OWNED
10
Pico de gallo herb : CILANTRO
11
Not yet in stock : ONORDER
12
Soup bases : BROTHS
13
Highway heavyweight : SEMI
14
___ mode : ALA
15
Like toum or agliata sauce : GARLICKY
16
Forest between Champagne and Lorraine : ARGONNE
17
Cousin of kvass : RYEBEER
20
Plant pore : STOMA
26
“___ Miz” : LES
29
Early computer acronym : MSDOS
34
O.E.D. part: Abbr. : ENG
36
Some rideshares : UBERS
38
They may be hidden behind paintings : WALLSAFES
41
Knot-tying and lashing, to a sailor : ROPEWORK
43
Like some short tennis matches : TWOSET
46
Install, as sod : LAY
47
Record player annoyances : SKIPS
50
Actor Guinness : ALEC
51
Improvised comment : ADLIB
52
“Colette” actress Knightley : KEIRA
53
Comedian Wyatt of “Problem Areas” : CENAC
56
Porter, for one : ALE
57
Derby c*cktail : JULEP
59
Bad Brains and Bikini Kill, for two : PUNKBANDS
61
Muckety-mucks : VIPS
62
Colorful bird named for its diet : BEEEATER
64
Not easily moved : STOIC
65
Ocho menos cinco : TRES
66
Buttonholes, basically : SLITS
67
Actor/activist George : TAKEI
68
Seattle’s W.N.B.A. team : STORM
70
Absolutely wrecks : TOTALS
71
K : GRAND
74
Reason to do a “stupid human trick” : DARE
75
X : CHI
76
Tangential topics : SIDEISSUES
78
Allow to access : LETAT
79
“I am,” in Latin : SUM
80
Incomplete dentures : PARTIALS
81
Ball game that all players might lose : ROULETTE
83
Lacks : HASNT
85
Place to wear muck boots : CLAMBED
86
One roasted or toasted : HONOREE
87
More raspy : HOARSER
89
Dramatize, as a historical event : REENACT
90
Teller, maybe : RAT
93
“That time is fine for me” : IMFREE
94
Lack of musicality : NOEAR
97
Teeny-tiny : MINUTE
98
Word after ring or water : BEARER
100
Side-to-side movement : YAW
102
Pastoral skyline features : SILOS
104
Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” : AISHA
105
Places for hoses and hoes : SHEDS
108
Oatmeal glob : LUMP
113
Judgy sound : TSK
115
Jupiter’s realm, in myth : SKY
117
Pic on a pec, say : TAT
