New York Times - Apr 17 2021

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Clues Answers
'The perfume of heroic deeds,' to Socrates FAME
'___ has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words': Dorothy Parker WIT
1040, e.g FORM
270° WEST
A word with thou ART
Annual coll. basketball event NIT
Aspire ENDEAVOR
Befuddled LOST
Beginnings of life OVA
Bother IRK
Brie, e.g SOFTCHEESE
Browser command BACK
Categorizes PEGS
Circular FLYER
Clear sky ETHER
Colorful Pillsbury cake with a portmanteau name FUNFETTI
Common additive to melted butter in Italian cuisine SAGE
Copies, as from a CD RIPS
Crackerjack ACE
Dave of rock MATTHEWS
Decorative features throughout Spain's Alhambra palace TILES
Designs CRAFTS
Do some yardwork WEED
Emulate Desdemona and Othello, in a way ELOPE
Grading aid RUBRIC
Head across the pond LOO
Homecomings? RUNS
If the shoe doesn't fit ... wear it? INSOLE
Impressive spot to sell out ARENA
Input ENTER
Kind of garden ZEN
Latitude LEEWAY
Lead-in to 'land' in a hit 2020 film NOMAD
Like some chickens on farms CORNFED
Like this clue among the Acrosses DEADLAST
Linguist Chomsky NOAM
Clues Answers
Male hedgehog BOAR
Mathematical puzzle with movable disks TOWEROFHANOI
Miscreant RASCAL
Neck problem CRICK
On the ___ SCENT
One getting a big scoop? ICECREAMCONE
Ones closest to you, informally FAM
Personification of limpness RAGDOLL
Pop FATHER
Prompt ONTIME
Ranking component TIER
Rest stop? SABBATH
Risky thing to do close to flight time PACK
Safe to skate on, say FROZENSOLID
Sch. whose athletes are nicknamed the Hoos UVA
Series set in Middle-earth, for short LOTR
Several of them are named for gods: Abbr MOS
Small sample, to Brits TASTER
Snap INSTANT
Some nervous responses FLINCHES
Some Renaissance-era scientists HERETICS
Something opened with a click PEN
Start of a series PILOT
Targets of leg raises, informally ABS
Thanksgiving aftermath, maybe FOODCOMA
The Wright stuff? AVIATION
They vary according to income TAXBRACKETS
TV host Kotb HODA
Weakens EBBS
Where things might be left hanging RACK
Wrongdoing HARM
Yielded CEDED
Zoom participants? DRAGRACERS
___ bike BMX
___ blue CADET
___ Star LONE