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Crossword Title: New York Times Crossword, Monday, April 12, 2021
Author: Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz
Editor: Will Shortz

New York Times Crossword Answers, Monday, April 12, 2021

Across

• Things that justify the means, some say
• Eight: Sp.
• Rampaging groups
• Hoedown locale
• "Moby-Dick" captain
• Feverish fit
• Cinnamon buns and such
• Community-maintained website
• Person from Bangkok
• Disney character loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s "Snow Queen"
• "Hmm, that’s not good …"
• Slight coloring
• Slight downturn
• Modern pet name
• Cyclical paradox discussed in "Gödel, Escher, Bach"
• Societal problems
• Brain reading, for short
• Touches one’s chin and moves the hand down to say "Thank you," for example
• Recipe amt.
• ___ and crafts
• "Shucks!"
• Bar serving
• The "A" of I.R.A.: Abbr.
• Onetime TV political drama set in Washington
• "Now I get it!"
• Tit for ___
• Mike of TV’s "Dirty Jobs" and "Somebody’s Gotta Do It"
• Strategy
• Yours: Fr.
• Potato accompanier in soup
• Shopping center
• Sports metaphor used to describe esoteric knowledge … with a hint to the circled letters
• Cinema showing
• Amateur mag
• Sarah McLachlan hit
• Ladder rung
• Jazzy James
• Forest feline

Down

• Flow back, as the tide
• Tusked marine animal
• Spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side
• Type not to be trusted
• Fumbler
• Informal conversation
• #, on social media
• Procure
• China’s ___ Zedong
• Eye creepily
• Yale’s Handsome Dan mascot, for one
• Time spent with a psychiatrist, e.g.
• Optimas and Souls, in the auto world
• Good thing to have on hand at a wedding?
• TikTok and Fitbit, for two
• Kimono sash
• GPS suggestions: Abbr.
• Rorschach, for one
• Street cred
• Simpson who is a Buddhist and a vegetarian
• Hearty bowlful
• Bar serving
• Heavyweight champ known as "The Greatest"
• Figure in home economics?
• Lead-in to boy or girl
• Hypothetical musings
• "Now, work!"
• Slightly
• Purr-son who loves her pets?
• Doin’ nothin’
• Tic-___-toe
• Last word at an auction
• Pluck, as an eyebrow
• Charades or dominoes
• Scheming group
• ___ of Skye
• Philosopher Immanuel
• Little troublemaker
• South China ___
• Opposite of strict