Star Tribune Puzzle Answers November 29, 2023
Author: Boatload Puzzles
Across
| Connecting words | Ands |
| Affirmative votes | Ayes |
| Highly skilled | Adept |
| Consider | Deem |
| Annoying one | Pest |
| River embankment | Levee |
| Mediate | Arbitrate |
| Mushroom “seed” | Spore |
| Slogan | Motto |
| Highway exit | Ramp |
| Similar | Akin |
| Browned bread | Toast |
| Seldom | Rarely |
| Narrate again | Retell |
| Choose by ballot | Elect |
| Pizzeria appliance | Oven |
| Agree | Assent |
| Poetic work | Ode |
| Hamm or Farrow | Mia |
| High card | Ace |
| Freon, e.g. | Gas |
| Bear’s hideaway | Den |
| Shade tree | Elm |
| Most rational | Sanest |
| Incite | Goad |
| Small pies | Tarts |
| Oak nuts | Acorns |
| Receive willingly | Accept |
| Beauty shop | Salon |
| Animal’s den | Lair |
| Tied | Even |
| Adjust | Adapt |
| Borders | Edges |
| Gazelles | Antelopes |
| Desist | Cease |
| Sherbets | Ices |
| Bound | Leap |
| Drinking tube | Straw |
| Wren’s home | Nest |
| Crafts | Arts |
Down
| Eve’s guy | Adam |
| Fiddling emperor | Nero |
| Liability | Debt |
| Infatuated | Smitten |
| Tax mo. | Apr |
| 1984 and 2001 | Years |
| Landed properties | Estates |
| Goblet part | Stem |
| Roker and Pacino | Als |
| Leave | Depart |
| Call forth | Evoke |
| Risk | Peril |
| Quite small | Teeny |
| Hammer or screwdriver | Tool |
| Before birth | Prenatal |
| Menu term (3 wds.) | Alacarte |
| Performs onstage | Acts |
| Italy’s capital | Rome |
| Sinister | Evil |
| Athletic group | Team |
| Table parts | Legs |
| Forwarded | Sent |
| Fragrance | Odor |
| College official | Dean |
| Purposes | Ends |
| Office acronym | Asap |
| Perfume | Essence |
| Venetian boat | Gondola |
| Calcutta’s Mother ____ | Teresa |
| Furnace fuel | Coal |
| Guinness and Baldwin | Alecs |
| Military student | Cadet |
| Havana export | Cigar |
| Poker stakes | Antes |
| Conceited | Vain |
| Copier | Aper |
| Soil enricher | Peat |
| Recipe abbr. | Tsps |
| Stitch | Sew |
| RI time zone | Est |