Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Thursday October 22, 2020.
‘That’s amazing!’ – OOH
‘That’s amazing!’ – WOW
‘___ with me?’ – WHOS
3-D test – VEIL
Actress Laura – EMPTYEMPTYEMPTY
Aid in catching shrimp – ATEIN
Approximate weight of a liter of water – DERN
Bemoans – JUG
Corp. leader in charge of 35-Down – CIO
Crumbles away – ERODES
Defeat just barely – MRI
Down-hearted softies? – DATESUEMPTYP
Emmy-winning actress Aduba – UZO
Endure punishment – ADEXECS
Enthusiastic reply to ‘Wanna try?’ – WOULDIEVER
Fair – LAX
Figures, e.g – EMPTYEMPTYEMPTY
Format of a digital pic – GYMS
Founder of the Sikh religion – NEMPTYERVE
Fracas – ADO
Gall – KILO
Gear for the bench – ROBE
Gets darker, in a way – OVEN
Go slowly – OOZE
Graceful leap – HYPE
Green splats, on Rotten Tomatoes – POOF
Had a home-cooked meal – LENT
Harrison, e.g., but not Ford – DATA
Houseware brand that’s easy to read in a mirror – NIP
It brings the heat – CAD
It may lead up to a letdown – ATONE
It’s used to carry out an order – TRAY
Its name is said to mean ‘people of the mountains’ – OXO
John of ‘Being John Malkovich’ – CUSACK
Keeps going despite fatigue … or a hint to three features of this puzzle – SLY
Laugh riot – ESPY
Look over – PEREMPTYUSE
Many a 4WD ride – SUEMPTYV
Military missions, informally – SCREAM
Misleading malware – SUEMPTYN
Name on both ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘South Park’ – NEMPTYED
Not accidental – DRUNKDIAL
Not-so-great depression – DENT
Observance once known as Quadragesima (Latin for ‘fortieth’) – WANTED
Ones arranging spots – GURUNANAK
Opposition – SIGHS
Oscar winner Mahershala – ALI
Place – LIEU
Place to catch shrimp – ONPUREMPTYPOSE
Potshots – PEPPER
Promote – SELL
Puts off, in a way – TABLES
Red slips of paper? – TAJ
Rock band with a 1980 album that went 25x platinum – ACDC
Second-busiest airport in the U.S – JPEG
Showy wraps – BAYOU
Slimeball – BOAS
Sprinkle (with) – EXPO
Strong base – LYE
Telephone when all lit up? – NEMPTYET
They cause rolling of the eyes, not rolling in the aisles – DUVETS
They put in long hours to get better hours – LABORUNIONS
Wedding wear – FOE
What polar opposites have in common – JETE
What’s theorized to have preceded the Big Bang – EMPTYEMPTYEMPTY
What’s uttered by a mime – SNIPES
When some people break for lunch – TANS
Where squatters may be seen – RUNSONEMPTY
Woos outside one’s league, so to speak – TREMPTYOJAN
Word seen above a mug shot – WHIG
Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to ‘WI’ – OPS
Wristwatch part – STRAP
[And … it’s gone!] – RUES
___ Bengal (five-star hotel in Kolkata) – TAKEIT
___ ears – UTAH
___-fresh – IOUS
