Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Sunday January 24, 2021.
‘Blueberries for ___’ (kid-lit classic) – SAL
‘Gimme ___’ – ASEC
‘I mean …’ – WELL
‘Roses ___ red …’ – ARE
‘Runnin” team of N.C.A.A. Division I college basketball – UTES
‘The ___ — is wider than the Sky’ (start of an Emily Dickinson poem) – BRAIN
‘We ___ Overcome’ – SHALL
‘You betcha!’ – YEP
‘___ Brockovich’ – ERIN
‘___ Dead?’ (Mark Twain play) – ISHE
‘___ the only one?’ – AMI
‘___ your request …’ – ASPER
A young Justice Ginsburg chuckles? – BABYRUTHSNICKERS
A/C spec – BTU
Absorb, as sauce with bread – SOPUP
Ally of the Brat Pack – SHEEDY
Alma mater for Spike Lee and Donald Glover, for short – NYU
Anatomical pouch – SAC
Ancient Egyptians – NUBIANS
Any Olympian, once – AMATEUR
Apt name for a lawyer – SUE
Attention hog, maybe – HAM
Beatles title woman – RIGBY
Big Apple media inits – NYT
Bit of fill-in-the-blanks fun – MADLIB
Bookworms call dad? – NERDSRINGPOP
Build-your-own Tex-Mex dish – FAJITA
Burger King bingefest? – WHOPPERSSPREE
Business for Sanders supporters? – KFC
Capital near the North Sea – OSLO
Car sticker fig – MPG
Chance to go – TURN
Coarse farm sound – BRAY
Color marker – CRAYON
Common baking pear – BOSC
Company whose business is picking up? – UBER
Comparable (to) – AKIN
Compliant sorts – OBEYERS
Corporate money managers, for short – CFOS
Cutting edge? – HAIRLINE
Dangerous move on a busy highway – UEY
Declare – ALLEGE
Deep secret – ARCANUM
Depletes, with ‘up’ – USES
Diarist who documented the Great Plague of London – PEPYS
Dinner table expander – LEAF
Disciple – PROTEGE
Do core exercises all day, every day? – CRUNCHNOWANDLATER
Doctors Without Borders, e.g.: Abbr – ORG
Does a dog trick – SPEAKS
Drops an f-bomb, say – SWEARS
Elusive legend – YETI
End of a threat – ORELSE
Eponym of the Detroit Lions field – FORD
False accusation, informally – BUMRAP
False fronts – FACADES
Fancy Feast alternative – WHISKAS
Feature of a classical Greek drama – CHORUS
Follower of word or potato – SALAD
Galoot – LUG
Gets lost – SCATS
Give extra consideration, with ‘on’ – SLEEP
Got hip, with ‘up’ – WISED
Govt. org. with a forerunner known as the Black Chamber – NSA
Gusto – ELAN
Guthrie who performed at Woodstock – ARLO
Hard to handle, in a way – EELY
Heavier alternative to a foil – EPEE
Higher, as ambitions – LOFTIER
Hoarse – RASPY
Holiday dish served with sour cream or applesauce – LATKES
Hops-drying oven – OAST
How a door might be slammed – ANGRILY
Hunky-dory – AOK
Idaho, e.g., in dialect – TATER
It helps in passing – YEA
Japan’s street food mecca – OSAKA
Least forward – COYEST
Legendary password stealer – ALIBABA
Like binary questions – YESNO
Like ___ of sunshine – ARAY
Links grp – USGA
Logical connector – NOR
Longtime Japanese P.M. who stepped down in 2020 – ABE
Maker of the X6 and Z4 – BMW
Members of the crow family – JAYS
Nonsense – ROT
Nora Ephron and Sofia Coppola, for two – SCREENWRITERS
Numerous – ALOTOF
Off-color – RACY
One ‘R’ in R&R – REST
One may be nominated for a Hugo Award – FANTASYSERIES
Onetime Sony rival – TOSHIBA
Only Stratego piece with a letter on it – SPY
Palindromic farm animal – EWE
Portrait seen on renminbi bills – MAO
Prepare for a road trip, perhaps – TANKUP
Prepares (for) – GETSSET
Preserve, in a way – CURE
Prickly covering of a seed – BUR
Promises, promises! – IDOS
Quick drive – SPIN
Quickly learn one’s lesson? – CRAM
Race units – LAPS
Really good time – GAS
Response to an order – AYE
Result of a breast pocket mishap, maybe – INKMARK
Rocker Cobain – KURT
Sacred cross in ancient Egypt – ANKH
Sardine container – TIN
Seedy area? – SOIL
Signature item – PEN
Singer Watson, a.k.a. Tones and I, with the 2019 hit ‘Dance Monkey’ – TONI
Sloped roof support – RAFTER
Some astronomy Ph.D.s? – MARSSMARTIES
South Beach and Paleo, for two – FADDIETS
Sports team V.I.P.s – GMS
Squalid digs – RATTRAP
Startling sound – BAM
Stubborn sorts – ASSES
Studmuffin – HUNK
Subcontractor in a bathroom remodel – TILER
Subject of intl. treaties – WMD
Supernova in our galaxy? – MILKYWAYSTARBURST
Swiss painter Paul – KLEE
Symbols in Twitter handles – ATS
Takes steps – ACTS
Tarnish – MAR
The land down under? – HADES
They can be batted and rolled – EYES
They go wherever the wind blows – VANES
Volt-amperes – WATTS
Walk-___ – INS
When E.M.T.s bring home the bacon? – LIFESAVERSPAYDAY
When high school seniors often visit the colleges that accepted them – APRIL
Where hangers hang – CLOSET
With the greatest of ___ – EASE
___ avis – RARA
___ golf – DISC
___-cat – SCAREDY
