Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Saturday January 30, 2021.
‘Between the World and Me’ author, 2015 – COATES
‘Decision time!’ – ITSNOWORNEVER
‘Little Women’ actress Ronan – SAOIRSE
Absolutely trounced – PASTED
Actress Rowlands – GENA
America’s first historically Black sorority, in brief – AKA
Amphibian that Ogden Nash once rhymed with ‘bottle’ – AXOLOTL
Angles – SLANTS
Banh ___ (sticky rice cake) – TET
Bit of encouragement for someone’s success – MOREPOWERTOYOU
Buck, boomer, jack, flyer or jill, informally – ROO
Certain mouthpiece attachment – REED
Color that comes from the Latin for ‘red’ – RUBY
Continuously improve, in tech-speak – ITERATE
De-frosting? – DETENTE
Decked out – CLAD
Decline – SAYNO
Doctor’s office, maybe – SUITE
Dog … or a type of dog – HOUND
Dos y dos y dos y dos – OCHO
Earth-shattering – EPIC
Excited, with ‘up’ – KEYED
Frequently flooded land – FEN
Frosty air? – ICINESS
Glossy alternative – MATTE
Hero of Philadelphia – HOAGIE
Holding up the line for? – CUING
IG-11 on ‘The Mandalorian,’ e.g – DROID
Lead-in to belief – DIS
Like some brows and berets – KNIT
Lines in an application? – CODE
Little ‘uns – TOTS
Little ball of fur – KITTYCAT
Lock holder? – MOUSSE
Longtime Sacha Baron Cohen persona – ALIG
Makes clean … or less clean – DUSTS
Makes out – DISCERNS
Many a 31-Down piece – POT
Material that artists get all fired up about? – CERAMIC
Milan ___, author of 1984’s ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ – KUNDERA
Natural cover – SCAB
Natural recess – COVE
Not with ‘them’ – ONEOFUS
One might carry a torch – SCONCE
One temporarily donning a cap – GRAD
Openness – CANDOR
Parting word – ADIEU
Piece of the pie? – CRUST
Queens, e.g – ROYALS
Rigmarole – ADO
Say ‘Ta-da!,’ say – CROW
Set the wheels in motion – GETGOING
Setting of a 1945 conference – YALTA
Sharp feeling – PANG
Shell, maybe – CASING
Singing style with African-American roots – DOOWOP
Smear – DAUB
Spent – DONE
Spike in activity on a sports field? – CLEAT
Standard of comparison – BASELINE
Stereotypically arcane subject – ROCKETSCIENCE
Subject of a family feud, maybe – ESTATE
Team that infamously blew a 28-3 Super Bowl lead they had late in the third quarter: Abbr – ATL
Turns over – CEDES
Was on – RODE
Workers with talent – SCOUTS
Wry comment on a sorry situation – YOUHATETOSEEIT
___ change – EXACT
