Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Saturday March 13, 2021.
Come help me with this’ – INEEDAHAND
‘Mi ___’ (Spanish words of endearment) – AMOR
‘Oh, gimme a break!’ – IMEANCOMEON
‘Right on!’ – AMEN
‘That’s a ___’ – WRAP
‘Young Man With a Skull’ painter – HALS
‘___ magic!’ – ITS
Actor Sean of ‘Stranger Things’ – ASTIN
Amanda Gorman, e.g – POET
Ancient allegory paralleled in the plot of ‘The Matrix’ – PLATOSCAVE
Beverage brand portmanteau – NESCAFE
Big buttes – MESAS
Brings down – DIMS
Brings together – WEDS
Cassius Dio said it went ‘from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron’ – ROMANEMPIRE
Chafed, say – RAW
Cheyenne, e.g.: Abbr – MTN
Contemptible sort – JERK
Contemptible sort – ASS
Dating inits – BCE
Diagonal kind of cut – BIAS
Dingy kitchen items? – OVENTIMERS
Doesn’t check, say – BETS
Driver’s place – CAB
Eldest of the Pleiades – MAIA
Eponymous founder of a San Diego research institute – SALK
Existed – BEEN
Forces (upon) – FOISTS
Gobble up – DEVOUR
Hardly a test of one’s memory – OPENBOOKEXAM
High on the job? – CAREERBEST
Hindi for ‘king’ – RAJA
Holy ___ – SEE
Ice cream dessert – BOMBE
Inebriate – SOT
Is lachrymose – WEEPS
It has coronoid and styloid processes – ULNA
Journalist who wrote the 1990s-2000s comic strip ‘Capitol Hell’ – TAPPER
Like bootleg pants – FLARED
Like many minor-key compositions – SOMBER
Locale near the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, some believe – EDEN
Locale of the Chair of Saint Peter in Saint Peter’s Basilica – APSE
Mac – BUB
Marathon runner’s wear – RACEBIB
One who’s taken a vow – WIFE
Pets that commonly have different-colored eyes, such as one blue and one amber – ANGORACATS
Place of drudgery – SALTMINE
Portable lunch options from Japan – BENTOBOXES
Prod – URGE
Product of tissue engineering, such as artificial skin – BIOTEXTILE
Really soak up the sun – BAKE
Really stinks – BITES
Riddled – RIFE
Sharp increase – JUMP
Some short releases, for short – EPS
Split – BISECT
Spots for fighter jets, in brief – AFBS
Spots for shams – BEDS
Statement of inevitability – NOTIFBUTWHEN
Sustenance – BREAD
Tales of woe – SOBSTORIES
The Taj Mahal complex has 42 of them – ACRES
Things often seen in windows – TABS
Throws heavenward – LOFTS
Unappetizing bowlful – SLOP
Unmotivated, and then some – INERT
When a vesper bell rings – EVENTIDE
When italicized, word before something exemplary – THE
Winter Olympics feat – AXEL
___ Addams, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize – JANE
