New York Times - Mar 7 2020 Crossword Answer

New York Times - Mar 7 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Literary lion	ASLAN
Lots and lots (of)	SEAS
Mark of a swordsman?	SCAR
Neighbor of Ill	WIS
New Jersey county whose seat is Newark	ESSEX
Nobelist Wiesel	ELIE
Obsolescent means of communication	PAYPHONE
OK to target	FAIRGAME
One of four on Pluto	PAW
One of seven in 14th-century Avignon	POPE
One-up	TOP
Ones set for a wild party?	JELLOSHOTS
Out to lunch	DAFT
Overprotective type	MOTHERHEN
Pass up	SKIP
Passé, say	NOTIN
Query following an interruption	WHEREWEREWE
Recurrent health scare	ECOLI
Sandwich shop purchases	WRAPS
Seafood in shells	FISHTACOS
Shakespearean production	ADO
Small cardinal	TWO
Some decorative plants	ALOES
Sound	SANE
Source of igneous rock	MAGMA
Source of Roquefort cheese	EWE
Squeeze (out)	EKE
Summer annoyances	GNATS
Support structure	REBAR
Tech-focused website	CNET
Typical stocking stuffers	FEET
Vixen	MINX
Well-ventilated	HOLEY
What Joe Biden and Al Gore are: Abbr	JRS
What the Copacabana becomes at the end of 'Copacabana'	DISCO

Clues	Answers
'Everybody says so'	ASKANYONE
'Hello ... I'm right here'	AHEM
'Hey, can I talk to you briefly?'	GOTASECOND
'Right on!'	YEAH
Actress Polo	TERI
Appreciates	SEES
Back	HIND
Bit on a bun	SESAMESEED
Blowout	BASH
Brown alternative	PENN
Calls attention to	SPOTLIGHTS
Cartoonist Hoff	SYD
Character who steals from the dragon Smaug	BILBO
Chemical suffix	ENE
Civil War inits	CSA
Company that makes Valium	ROCHE
Declaration upon walking in the door	HOMESWEETHOME
Direction in a film script	CUTTO
Do ___ deed	AGOOD
End notes	CODA
Fast learner	SPONGE
Fit for a sweater	AGUE
Gem	STONE
Give birth to	HAVE
Golfer Aoki	ISAO
Gray with the 3x platinum album 'On How Life Is'	MACY
Highest point	APOGEE
Himalayan native	YAK
Hospital amts	CCS
Individual, for one: Abbr	SYN
Is lost	HASNOIDEA
It might go over some students' heads	PAPERAIRPLANE
Legal, after 'of'	AGE
Like many a password	CASESENSITIVE
Like some flotsam	SWEPTASHORE