NYT Crossword Answers 04/08/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A “I’m afraid not,” quaintly ALASNO
• 7A Food brand for Fido ALPO
• 11A Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr. INTL
• 15A Cash in REDEEM
• 16A Avocado dip, informally GUAC
• 17A Take a risk DARE
• 18A Audience’s reverent response to a symphony finale? CODASILENCE
• 20A Keenly interested AVID
• 21A Shakespearean “soon” ANON
• 22A That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven’s “Moonlight”? SONATATHING
• 24A Commotion DIN
• 25A Measure of college readiness, for short PSAT
• 26A Knuckled rub to the scalp NOOGIE
• 27A Publishing house workers: Abbr. EDS
• 28A Goal AIM
• 29A Wood-shaping hand tool RASP
• 31A Tagging symbols ATS
• 32A ___-Magnon CRO
• 33A Vegas opener? LAS
• 34A Perry of pop KATY
• 36A Opportunity for a choral understudy? STANZACHANCE
• 39A Belgrade native SERB
• 40A “Beats me,” in a text IDK
• 41A Caviar, essentially ROE
• 42A Miss Piggy, for one SOW
• 43A Assns. ORGS
• 45A Extended comedic riff BIT
• 46A Hindi for “rule” RAJ
• 49A Chant heard at the start of “Hot Hot Hot” OLEOLE
• 51A Girl in Glasgow LASS
• 52A Alias initialism AKA
• 53A When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis? FORZAMOMENT
• 56A “Groovy, man” IDIG
• 57A Popular flavor of bubble tea TARO
• 58A “What’s Opera, Doc?,” e.g.? ARIAKIDDING
• 60A Volunteer’s offer ICAN
• 61A Hits hard RAMS
• 62A Respond, as a pupil might DILATE
• 63A Ending with kitchen ETTE
• 64A Painter Paul KLEE
• 65A Key of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 EMINOR

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Covered passageway ARCADE
• 2D Meteor in a November shower LEONID
• 3D Enhancing accessories ADDONS
• 4D Actor Astin of the “Lord of the Rings” films SEAN
• 5D Original Super Mario Bros. console NES
• 6D Oversight OMISSION
• 7D Author’s representative AGENT
• 8D Moon over Managua LUNA
• 9D Treaty PACT
• 10D What Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa are both believed to have OCEANS
• 11D The Gem State IDAHO
• 12D Find one’s way NAVIGATE
• 13D Dublin college founded in 1592 TRINITY
• 14D Apartment planter sites, perhaps LEDGES
• 19D Good gardening soil LOAM
• 23D Traditional samurai hairstyles TOPKNOTS
• 25D Graph of y = ax^2 + bx + c, for example PARABOLA
• 29D Frame for a game of pool RACK
• 30D Forehead marking at the start of Lent ASH
• 32D Convention bldg., in a mailing address CTR
• 33D Dudes, in British English LADS
• 35D Big name in hardware stores ACE
• 36D Underground scurrier SEWERRAT
• 37D Half of a darting motion ZIG
• 38D Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader ARISTIDE
• 39D One-man band, for example SOLOACT
• 42D Sentimental sort SOFTIE
• 44D Comment REMARK
• 45D Make ___ (earn vast sums) BANK
• 46D Unit of angular measurement RADIAN
• 47D Like AKINTO
• 48D Rolling Stones frontman JAGGER
• 50D Absorber of UV light OZONE
• 51D Charter LEASE
• 54D Word with cavity or contraceptive ORAL
• 55D One acting rather quiet? MIME
• 56D Savory South Asian rice cake IDLI
• 59D Lower, as lights DIM