Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Wednesday March 31, 2021.
‘Believe it or not …’ – INFACT
‘C’mon, open the door!’ – LETMEIN
‘Fresh Air’ broadcaster – NPR
‘Heaven forbid!’ – HOPENOT
‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ painter – BOSCH
‘Two thumbs up!’ – ILOVEDIT
1990s supermodel with a palindromic name – EMME
2006 Winter Olympics host – TORINO
43rd prez – GWB
Abhor – LOATHE
Above-the-knee skirt – MINI
Abraham Lincoln, for one – UNIONIST
Bear who sings ‘The Bare Necessities’ in a 1967 Disney film – BALOO
Becomes less important by comparison – PALES
Bellyache – CARP
Bemoan – LAMENT
Benjamin Franklin is depicted on the first U.S. one – STAMP
Bitcoin, e.g – ECASH
Brand of knives touted in classic infomercials – GINSU
Brown loaf with an earthy taste – DARKRYE
Catches sight of – ESPIES
Checks out, in a way – CASES
City near St. Petersburg – TAMPA
Company behind the first microprocessor – INTEL
Conflict that ended at 11:00 on 11/11 – WWI
Covenant – PACT
Crooked – BENT
Dance move that went from trendy to cringey in the 2010s – DAB
Diamond stat – RBI
Emphatic two-pointer – SLAMDUNK
Far from original – TRITE
Fill to the gills – SATE
Food for a sea urchin – KELP
Food-spoiling bacterium – ECOLI
French military headwear – KEPIS
Going places? – COMMODES
Heracles, to Zeus – SON
Herculean undertaking – ORDEAL
Hubbubs – ADOS
Japanese salad herb – UDO
Key of Beethoven’s Ninth – DMINOR
Like regular exercise and happiness, per research – LINKED
Like Sodom and Gomorrah – BIBLICAL
Like some breakfast cereals – OATEN
Many a smartphone recording – VIDEO
Mayim who played Amy Farrah Fowler on ‘The Big Bang Theory’ – BIALIK
Modern lead-in to -grammer – BRO
Mrs., on Majorca – SRA
Newspaper unit – PAGE
Nine-digit ID, in brief – SSN
Not a happy face – GRIMACE
One who raised Cain – ADAM
Paranormal power, for short – ESP
Part of a political convention roll call – STATE
Pet rocks, once – FAD
Pint-size – PEEWEE
Posterior – RUMP
Potpourri pieces – PETALS
Put one’s trust in – DEPENDON
Put two and two together? – ADD
Satirist ___ Baron Cohen – SACHA
Shade of brown – TAN
Sidled (along) – EDGED
Singer John whose middle name is Hercules – ELTON
Slip past – ELUDE
Smaller parts making up a larger whole … with a hint to the six groups of circled squares in this puzzle – BUILDINGBLOCKS
Soccer great with a statue in Buenos Aires – MESSI
Something to believe in – TENET
Stead – LIEU
Stitch’s pal, in film – LILO
Swelled heads – EGOS
They turn litmus paper red – ACIDS
Thin-layered sedimentary rock – SHALE
Thingy – ITEM
Tiny ammo – BBS
Topple (over) – KEEL
Tree that’s a favorite of giraffes – ACACIA
Use, as dishes – EATON
Virtuoso – ACE
Wounded by a bull, say – GORED
___ hop (swing era dance) – LINDY
