NY Times Crossword 

January 7, 2024

Michael Schlossberg

GIMME A SECOND

 

Each theme clue to this clever puzzle has two answers. The clue and the two answers are shown below. The second answers to each clue have something in common that is hinted at by the last clue. Can you figure out what it is?

1. Clue: Might be pressed before work

    Answers: Power suit

                    Snooze alarm

2. Clue: They're home to spinners

    Answers: Spider webs

                    PR agencies

3. Clue: One sailing through long passages

    Answers: Sea captain

                    Avid reader 

 

4. Clue: Target of many a viral marketing campaign  

    Answers: Generation Z

                    Flu strain 

 

5. Band leader's urging (4 words)   

 

HINTS to Clue 5:

First word: "Once"

Second word: "more"

 

Answer to Clue 5:

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

 

Answers to Clues 1-4:

 

The second answer conceals a word that names a feeling:

 

1. snooZE ALarm

2. pR AGEncies

3. aviD READer

4. fLU STrain