- Total dud: BOMB
- Science fair locale often: GYM
- The home in Theres no place like home: KANSAS
- Chloé who directed Nomadland: ZHAO
- Grazing ground: LEA
- Nipple ring?: AREOLA
- Slang for many: ZILLIONS
- Video game franchise featuring a clone assassin: HITMAN
- With 2-Down the oldest sister city in the U.S.: TOLEDO
- Massage parlor supply: OIL
- Dead ___: END
- I for one: ROMANNUMERAL
- Betraying no emotion: STOLID
- Opposite of a heads up?: TAILS
- When repeated a sound from a brass instrument: WAH
- Mideast leader: EMIR
- Big to-dos: FLAPS
- Scientific definition for short: ELECTRICALFAULT
- My words fly up my thoughts remain ___ Hamlet: BELOW
- Aroma that may induce meowing: TUNA
- Simu ___ portrayer of Marvels Shang-Chi: LIU
- Keats or Wordsworth: ODIST
- Darlington Hall in The Remains of the Day: ESTATE
- Length for example: SEVENLETTERS
- ___ Bo: TAE
- Fracas: ADO
- Go through the roof: ROCKET
- Optimistic: UPBEAT
- Anagram for instance: ANCIENTS
- Guy who inspired an early 2010s hip-hop dance: DOUGIE
- Trifling amount: SOU
- 99 Luftballons singer: NENA
- Heavens to Betsy!: YEGODS
- Material for demolition: TNT
- Valued: DEAR
- [Wrong answer!]: BZZT
- See 20-Across: OHIO
- Chain letter?: MALL
- Cuban song genre that shares its name with a Spanish dance: BOLERO
- Like Eeyore vis-à-vis his storybook companions: GLOOMIER
- Want: YEN
- Wall builder: MASON
- Coffee liqueur brand: KAHLUA
- Hereditary director Aster: ARI
- Whats rustled in a swish: NET
- Low turnover?: SOMERSAULT
- Haim who co-starred in 2021s Licorice Pizza: ALANA
- Place to get a C.D.: SANDL
- Golden calf e.g.: IDOL
- Companywide communication system: INTRANET
- Let in: ADMITTED
- Put out: MIFF
- Civil rights activist Baker: ELLA
- Not for ___: SALE
- First film appearance of Herbie a sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle: THELOVEBUG
- Nexus: WEB
- Critical hospital dept.: ICU
- Ballet bend: PLIE
- Nickname that drops -art: STU
- Write in Python say: CODE
- Romulus or Remus: TWIN
- Like some diamonds: LASERCUT
- Tickets: SLATES
- Psionic counselor on Star Trek T.N.G.: TROI
- Be on the up and up?: ASCEND
- Sketch done in preparation for a finished piece: STUDY
- The Facts in the Case of ___ (Andrew Sinclair novel that pays homage to a mystery writer): EAPOE
- Dead meat so to speak: TOAST
- Mini display?: KNEE
- Where Zeus trapped the monster Typhon in myth: ETNA
- Bolsheviks bane: TSAR
- Something to feed or stroke: EGO
- Backing: AID
- Sine qua ___: NON
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.