Clues
- Stick under the bed?
- Served flawlessly?
- Play with as a catnip mouse
- Off-the-books business perhaps
- Olympics venue
- Shifty type?
- Lubricate again
- Words before a deadline
- Site of a Herculean task
- Function
- Sparkly wine cocktail
- Praises to the heavens
- Fumble
- Cog on a wheel
- ___ crawl
- Mideast federation since 1971 in brief
- Dunderhead
- Fraternity letter
- Brand of congestion medication
- Where wild animals are most likely to see you
- Old-fashioned Whoopee!
- Capital of Brazil until 1960 informally
- Refuses to
- Make broader
- Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm
- Conservative in a sense
- Subject of a fully exposed image?
- Affirming words
- Surprise encounter
- Polite refusal
- Muppet named after a character in Midnight Cowboy
- How this puzzles grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues when written in 17-Across
- Bamboozle
- 1977 Linda Ronstadt hit
- Word before and after to in a religious phrase
- Org. endorsing P.P.E. for workers
- Jean who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea
- Moves quickly as a cloud
- Really enjoy
- In keeping with
- Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers
- Shortest path connecting two points on a sphere
- Surname of father/son actors James and Scott
- Henry Fords sole heir
- Consider something to be
- Overly suspicious
- Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts
- *Like a household with a stay-at-home parent maybe
- Sambuca flavoring
- Padded accounts?
- ___ see it from my perspective …
- *Longtime Mazda catchphrase
- *Annual gathering of superhero fans
- Member of TVs Addams Family
- It comes and goes
- Last in a series
- Mer makeup
- *Babe-in-the-woods quality
- Where the smallest bones in the body are found
- Tiny particle
- Wee un
- Antique tools for pressing clothes
- Ficus fruit
- Mighty Patch target
- Lot in Genesis e.g.
- Papal emissary
- Swindle
- More or less in time
- Señors send-off
- River deposits
- N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas
- Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled A Coming-of-Gender Story
- Components of a hard six in craps
- Quick bite
- Last in a series
- Farm delivery letters
NY Times Crossword April 20 2023
The New York Times crossword clue for April 20 2023 is "Aquatic mammal with a flexible snout", with the answer being "Manatee". Manatees are large, gentle aquatic mammals that inhabit the shallow, coastal areas of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They are known for their slow, graceful movements and their flexible snouts which they use to search for food. Manatees are an endangered species and are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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