Below is the complete solution for the crossword puzzle for August 17, 2023. Here we’ll help you all to solve the given puzzles easily with a moderate difficulty level. Wherever you get stuck you are always allowed to know more with the help of the given hints and find the correct possible answer. If you want to challenge your brain, then you should definitely try solving these puzzles which are published every day on our website.
NYT ACROSS CLUES
| Costa ___ | RICAN |
| Wow, that’s upside down! | MOM |
| “Be for real!” | CMON |
| Tapped in, so to speak | AWARE |
| “High” number? | FIVE |
| Modern initialism for Black dialect | AAVE |
| Cup of noodles, and others? | CONCOURSES |
| Rebuff in Rostov | NYET |
| Tips | ENDS |
| Shrimp egg rolls, and others? | SERRATIONS |
| Porcine “palace” | STY |
| Head of une école? | TETE |
| Some tape players | VCRS |
| Boots, water bottle, backpack, etc. | GEAR |
| Bud | AMIGO |
| Paradigm movement | SHIFT |
| Clean up, in a way | EDIT |
| Something to clean up | MESS |
| Chicken and rice, and others? | CARFARE |
| Coq au vin, and others? | CAVEATS |
| Cuba, por ejemplo | ISLA |
| Word after Bernese or Tyrolean | ALPS |
| Locale for a shopping cart | AISLE |
| Covered with bryophytes | MOSSY |
| Minuscule | TINY |
| Chuffed | GLAD |
| “What ___?” | THEN |
| Longtime show for Robin Roberts, for short | GMA |
| Baked rigatoni alla Norma, and others? | BRANDISHES |
| Fly high | SOAR |
| Part of the Hollywood monogram J.E.J. | EARL |
| Baking ingredient used multiple times in this puzzle? | SHORTENING |
| Watering hole, maybe | DIVE |
| Watering hole, maybe | POND |
| Many a retirement residence | CONDO |
| Knock ’em dead | SLAY |
| “Can I help you with something?” | YES |
| Department of labor? | OBGYN |
NYT VERTICAL CLUES
| Election night list | RACES |
| Response to “Don’t forget!” | IWONT |
| New Edition’s debut single (“You look so sweet, you’re a special treat” | CANDYGIRL |
| ( and ) | ARCS |
| Prefix with liberal | NEO |
| Make out sloppily in the library? | MISREAD |
| Not liking anymore | OVER |
| Arizona city | MESA |
| Question suggested by a door knock | CANICOMEIN |
| Participant in a “key to the city” ceremony | MAYOR |
| Bake-offs have them | OVENS |
| Team sharing a home arena with the Liberty | NETS |
| Sweat it | FRET |
| App store customer | USER |
| Family-friendly rating | TVG |
| “Later!” | TATA |
| First woman in the National Baseball Hall of Fame | EFFAMANLEY |
| Row for a musical group | MICS |
| “I’ll give ___ read” | ITA |
| STEM part: Abbr. | SCI |
| Is ill with | HAS |
| Sargasso Sea spawners | EELS |
| Chill | EASYGOING |
| Bistate metro area: Abbr. | STL |
| 157.5 degrees from N | SSE |
| Dorm leaders, in brief | RAS |
| Very self-interested | VAIN |
| Things with coils that can be dangerous | PYTHONS |
| “Huh!” | ODD |
| Take a Covid precaution | TEST |
| Something highly sought after | GRAIL |
| Grub, e.g. | LARVA |
| Goat group | HERD |
| “This Is Us” co-star Moore | MANDY |
| Its atomic number is this clue’s number divided by three | ATOMIC |
| Inanimate objects with heads and feet | BEDS |
| Game played on the road | ISPY |
| Inanimate object with a tongue | SHOE |
| Gatekeeping sort | SNOB |
| ___ Style gel | ECO |
Clues are given in order to help you all solve the given crossword puzzles easily in a very less amount of time. Do make sure to give it a try and challenge yourself as these puzzles are really fun to solve which will create a kind of brainstorming session for you. The hints are there to help you and the difficulty level is moderate so you don’t need to worry. Bookmark our website for more such crossword puzzles which are published every day along with the answers of the previous crossword puzzles.
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