Friday February 16, 2024 NYT Crossword Answers 🎯

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The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Friday February 16, 2024 is displayed below.



ACROSS CLUES


1 Deciding contest RUNOFF
7 Musical whose preshow warning about cellphone use says that knights "may drag you onstage and impale you" SPAMALOT
15 God on a mission? APOLLO
16 Cry after a windfall WERERICH
17 Louisiana ___, religion with West African roots VOODOO
18 Bit of gear for gliding ICESKATE
19 Personal struggles personified INNERDEMONS
21 ___ Carter, most-recorded jazz bassist in history RON
22 Critics' picks, informally RECS
23 Eldest daughter of Oceanus and mother of Nike STYX
25 Source of milk for Manchego cheese EWE
28 Comme ci, comme ça SOSO
30 European airline that was nationalized from 1944 to 2001 IBERIA
34 Boston Harbor detritus, once TEAS
36 Cartoonist Groening MATT
38 Hands and feet UNITS
39 Trancelike state during a monotonous drive HIGHWAYHYPNOSIS
42 Northern hemisphere? IGLOO
43 Antivenoms, e.g. SERA
44 World's rarest goose NENE
45 Symbol found in Pac-Man and on slot machines CHERRY
47 Going ___ RATE
49 Rode the bench SAT
50 First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth ENOS
52 Its tributaries have colorful names NILE
54 Cry from Homer DOH
57 "I want to, but really I shouldn't ..." DONTTEMPTME
62 [Violin emoji] OHBOOHOO
64 Stand-up person? NOSHOW
65 "You did great!" NICEWORK
66 Moving company? TROUPE
67 Suboptimal ending SOURNOTE
68 Name on an envelope SENDER

DOWN CLUES


1 Sitarist Shankar RAVI
2 Informed of UPON
3 Time to draw? NOON
4 "Getting ___ is no problem. You just have to live long enough": Groucho Marx OLDER
5 Jardín contents FLORES
6 Post-Thanksgiving meal drowsiness, familiarly FOODCOMA
7 Compete in a freestyle, e.g. SWIM
8 Cowboy Bill PECOS
9 Coy response to a compliment ARENTI
10 Casually chic updo MESSYBUN
11 Original tablet holder ARK
12 Makeup artist? LIAR
13 Prefix with -genarian OCTO
14 Storyteller's transition THEN
20 Bacon bits ESSAYS
24 Noble gas used in propelling ion thrusters XENON
25 Code of conduct ETHIC
26 Carefully consider WEIGH
27 Boston College athlete EAGLE
29 Check box in a survey OTHER
31 Stands RISES
32 1986 rock autobiography ITINA
33 Selling point ASSET
35 Prop (up) SHORE
37 Cruel ruler TYRANT
40 Spent WORNDOWN
41 Ones in a waiting room PATIENTS
46 Drink brand that sounds like a shout YOOHOO
48 Novelist Leonard ELMORE
51 Act bullish? SNORT
53 Printer brand EPSON
54 Slips into DONS
55 Where Life Savers and pop-top cans were both invented OHIO
56 Howard or Spelman: Abbr. HBCU
58 Hit, in a way TOKE
59 Fall sound THUD
60 Brood MOPE
61 It's got a big mouth EWER
63 "Jingle Bells" contraction OER