Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Wednesday February 12, 2020.

‘Let me try that again …’ – IMEANT
‘Me’ in the Oscar-winning song ‘You Must Love Me’ – EVA
‘Shoot!’ – RATS
‘You ___ me one’ – OWE
About – CIRCA
Actress Hagen – UTA
Affixed, like a patch – SEWNON
Airtight – HERMETIC
Alternative to canned – BOTTLED
Apt radio station to air ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’ (and it does!) – KNOW
Atop – UPON
Basketball shots from beyond the arc – THREES
Bit of Halloween décor – WEB
Business index, with ‘the’ – DOW
Call to a toreador – OLE
Car rental add-on – GPS
Chart topper – HIT
Chi-Town or Beantown team – SOX
Circus – TENTSHOW
Come out ahead – WIN
Dahl who wrote ‘James and the Giant Peach’ – ROALD
Director Johnson – RIAN
Entries on 1040s, for short – SSNS
Exhausted, with ‘up’ – ATE
Extra periods, in brief – OTS
Fanfare – POMP
Fertilizer found in caves – BATGUANO
Follow relentlessly – DOG
Frozen treats – SNOCONES
Genre for Fall Out Boy – EMO
Hole in one – ACE
Home to India’s Red Fort and Lotus Temple – DELHI
Hunted animals – PREY
Indirect, as a glance – SIDELONG
Jacob had 12 of them – SONS
Lead-in to a Pen used by nurses – EPI
Leaps on the ice – AXELS
Locale in the Lord’s Prayer – HEAVEN
Lorena who was the #1 female golfer for 158 consecutive weeks – OCHOA
Means of control – REINS
Mint in a tin – ALTOID
Moray, e.g – EEL
Mount near Olympus – OSSA
Name ender for a lawyer – ESQ
Not much – ATAD
Nurse – SIP
Old auto with its founder’s monogram – REO
Old Pontiacs – GTOS
Optimistic maxim from Virgil – LOVECONQUERSALL
Overly optimistic 1910s appellation – WARTOENDALLWARS
Pad Thai pan – WOK
Paid soldiers, informally – MERCS
Parents and grandparents, in teen lingo – THEOLDS
Pasta ___ Norma – ALLA
Pest – NOODGE
Phrase on an egg carton – ONEDOZEN
Puts forth, as effort – EXERTS
Ramble – ROVE
Reliable things, to Ben Franklin – DEATHANDTAXES
Research facility – LAB
Scrape – RASP
Selects, as a successor – ANOINTS
Stare intensely – GAZE
Start of a Latin conjugation – AMO
Starts to geometric proofs – AXIOMS
Team sharing an arena with the Flyers, informally – SIXERS
They make loud noises during showers – THUNDERSTORMS
Throw a party grandly – DOITUP
Tumbler turners – KEYS
Use up – DEPLETE
Vegetable that can get slimy when overcooked – OKRA
What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer – GOD
Where an artist works on a sketch, for short? – SNL
Where Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is displayed – OSLO