- Stick under the bed?: SLAT
- Served flawlessly?: ACED
- Play with as a catnip mouse: PAWAT
- Off-the-books business perhaps: CASHTRADE
- Olympics venue: ARENA
- Shifty type?: UPPERCASE
- Lubricate again: REOIL
- Words before a deadline: DUEBY
- Site of a Herculean task: NEMEA
- Function: USE
- Sparkly wine cocktail: SPRITZ
- Praises to the heavens: LIONIZES
- Fumble: GOOF
- Cog on a wheel: TOOTH
- ___ crawl: NEWS
- Mideast federation since 1971 in brief: UAE
- Dunderhead: NITWIT
- Fraternity letter: TAU
- Brand of congestion medication: SUDAFED
- Where wild animals are most likely to see you: ZOO
- Old-fashioned Whoopee!: HUZZAH
- Capital of Brazil until 1960 informally: RIO
- Refuses to: WONT
- Make broader: WIDEN
- Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm: GOBI
- Conservative in a sense: CAUTIOUS
- Subject of a fully exposed image?: NUDIST
- Affirming words: IDO
- Surprise encounter: RUNIN
- Polite refusal: NOSIR
- Muppet named after a character in Midnight Cowboy: RIZZO
- How this puzzles grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues when written in 17-Across: CLOCKWISE
- Bamboozle: COZEN
- 1977 Linda Ronstadt hit: ITSSOEASY
- Word before and after to in a religious phrase: ASHES
- Org. endorsing P.P.E. for workers: OSHA
- Jean who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea: RHYS
- Moves quickly as a cloud: SCUDS
- Really enjoy: LAPUP
- In keeping with: ASPER
- Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers: THEBIGS
- Shortest path connecting two points on a sphere: ARC
- Surname of father/son actors James and Scott: CAAN
- Henry Fords sole heir: EDSEL
- Consider something to be: DEEMIT
- Overly suspicious: PARANOID
- Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts: ARE
- *Like a household with a stay-at-home parent maybe: WEOUZHWZO
- Sambuca flavoring: ANISE
- Padded accounts?: TALES
- ___ see it from my perspective …: TRYTO
- *Longtime Mazda catchphrase: EOONEOON
- *Annual gathering of superhero fans: ZOUUHEOU
- Member of TVs Addams Family: ITT
- It comes and goes: FAD
- Last in a series: NTH
- Mer makeup: EAU
- *Babe-in-the-woods quality: WUZWUOZZH
- Where the smallest bones in the body are found: EAR
- Tiny particle: ION
- Wee un: TOT
- Antique tools for pressing clothes: SADIRONS
- Ficus fruit: FIG
- Mighty Patch target: ZIT
- Lot in Genesis e.g.: WIDOWER
- Papal emissary: NUNCIO
- Swindle: BUNKO
- More or less in time: CIRCA
- Señors send-off: ADIOS
- River deposits: SILTS
- N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas: ISIAH
- Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled A Coming-of-Gender Story: SISSY
- Components of a hard six in craps: TREYS
- Quick bite: NOSH
- Last in a series: ZEE
- Farm delivery letters: CSA
My name is Tim Jeffry, and I am a crossword solver and creator. I enjoy watching movies and series in my spare time, and I often play basketball with my sons. I solve the NY Times crossword daily and post the answers on my website.