New York Times Crossword Answers – Saturday April 17 2021

Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Saturday April 17 2021.
‘The perfume of heroic deeds,’ to Socrates – FAME
‘___ has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words’: Dorothy Parker – WIT
1040, e.g – FORM
270° – WEST
A word with thou – ART
Annual coll. basketball event – NIT
Aspire – ENDEAVOR
Befuddled – LOST
Beginnings of life – OVA
Bother – IRK
Brie, e.g – SOFTCHEESE
Browser command – BACK
Categorizes – PEGS
Circular – FLYER
Clear sky – ETHER
Colorful Pillsbury cake with a portmanteau name – FUNFETTI
Common additive to melted butter in Italian cuisine – SAGE
Copies, as from a CD – RIPS
Crackerjack – ACE
Dave of rock – MATTHEWS
Decorative features throughout Spain’s Alhambra palace – TILES
Designs – CRAFTS
Do some yardwork – WEED
Emulate Desdemona and Othello, in a way – ELOPE
Grading aid – RUBRIC
Head across the pond – LOO
Homecomings? – RUNS
If the shoe doesn’t fit … wear it? – INSOLE
Impressive spot to sell out – ARENA
Input – ENTER
Kind of garden – ZEN
Latitude – LEEWAY
Lead-in to ‘land’ in a hit 2020 film – NOMAD
Like some chickens on farms – CORNFED
Like this clue among the Acrosses – DEADLAST
Linguist Chomsky – NOAM
Male hedgehog – BOAR
Mathematical puzzle with movable disks – TOWEROFHANOI
Miscreant – RASCAL
Neck problem – CRICK
On the ___ – SCENT
One getting a big scoop? – ICECREAMCONE
Ones closest to you, informally – FAM
Personification of limpness – RAGDOLL
Pop – FATHER
Prompt – ONTIME
Ranking component – TIER
Rest stop? – SABBATH
Risky thing to do close to flight time – PACK
Safe to skate on, say – FROZENSOLID
Sch. whose athletes are nicknamed the Hoos – UVA
Series set in Middle-earth, for short – LOTR
Several of them are named for gods: Abbr – MOS
Small sample, to Brits – TASTER
Snap – INSTANT
Some nervous responses – FLINCHES
Some Renaissance-era scientists – HERETICS
Something opened with a click – PEN
Start of a series – PILOT
Targets of leg raises, informally – ABS
Thanksgiving aftermath, maybe – FOODCOMA
The Wright stuff? – AVIATION
They vary according to income – TAXBRACKETS
TV host Kotb – HODA
Weakens – EBBS
Where things might be left hanging – RACK
Wrongdoing – HARM
Yielded – CEDED
Zoom participants? – DRAGRACERS
___ bike – BMX
___ blue – CADET
___ Star – LONE