May 15 2016 - New York Times Crossword Answers
Clue | Answer |
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'Conger eel? Au contraire!' | THATSAMORAY |
'Ex Machina' robot | AVA |
'Finally, I can buy that house!' | ALOANATLAST |
'Lord of the Flies' protagonist | RALPH |
'Major shopping centers aren't among the prizes!' | YOUCANTWINAMALL |
'Not with a bang but a whimper' poet | ELIOT |
'Peanuts' girl | EUDORA |
'Santa Baby' singer | KITT |
'Something just occurred to me ...' | SAY |
'That was sure close!' | PHEW |
'___ All Too Much' (Beatles song) | ITS |
'___ Body?' (first Peter Wimsey novel) | WHOSE |
1980s-'90s Olympian Jackie Joyner-___ | KERSEE |
2016 campaigner | CRUZ |
Act | STATUTE |
Actress Carrere | TIA |
Adversary who shows up at romantic dinners? | ARIVALDATE |
Affirms | AVOWS |
Associates | MATES |
Author of the 1984 memoir 'Mayor' | KOCH |
Baseball commissioner after Giamatti and Vincent | SELIG |
Belarussian capital | MINSK |
Belief systems | CREEDS |
Body, metaphorically | CLAY |
Break down | PARSE |
Bring along | PACK |
Browser bar text | URL |
Ceiling stain's cause | LEAK |
Christian in Hollywood | SLATER |
City near Lake Nasser | ASWAN |
Cleveland team, informally | CAVS |
Codon carrier | RNA |
Colonial home, you might say | HIVE |
Company that sold Spirographs | KENNER |
Continental divides? | OCEANS |
Contributes to a GoFundMe campaign | DONATES |
Correct copy | EDIT |
Cuba ___ | LIBRE |
Cut (off) | LOP |
Dalmatian, e.g | CROAT |
Dethrone | OUST |
Divines | SENSES |
Down-filled garment | PARKA |
Ere | AFORE |
Erwin of 1950s TV | STU |
Even so | YET |
Evocative of yesteryear | RETRO |
Exchange cyclically | ROTATE |
Experiment subject | TESTEE |
Fashion editor's predictions | TRENDS |
Fighting off drowsiness? | RESISTINGAREST |
Finishes with | ENDSON |
Food sometimes sold with a flavor packet | RAMEN |
GameCube successor | WII |
Glide effortlessly | SKATE |
Good at one's job | ABLE |
Hand makeup | CARDS |
Hard to find | SCARCE |
Hartford-based Fortune 100 company | AETNA |
Head locks | HAIR |
Highly regarded | GREAT |
Hoppy drink | ALE |
Housemaid's ___ (bursitis) | KNEE |
Hypotheticals | IFS |
In need of a steer | LOST |
Inedible | BAD |
Inflames | RILES |
Internal pump | HEART |
Ireland : Erin :: Britain : ___ | ALBION |
It often contains 'lies' | EPITAPH |
Its symbol is a star and crescent | ISLAM |
Jack ___ (member of the Royal Navy) | TAR |
Jamaican genre | SKA |
Kate's partner of old TV | ALLIE |
Kedrova of 'Torn Curtain' | LILA |
Kevin who played Hercules on TV | SORBO |
La Scala premiere of 1887 | OTELLO |
Lacking creature comforts | SPARTAN |
Lacking excess | LEAN |
Land line? | COAST |
Layer | STRATUM |
Ligurian Sea feeder | ARNO |
Like tweets | TERSE |
Lose it | SNAP |
Lose rigidity | SAG |
Lowest possible turnout | NONE |
Magazine with a palindromic name | ELLE |
Maker of Caplio cameras | RICOH |
Move through a crowd, maybe | SIDLE |
One of the 'cities of the plain' | SODOM |
Out of bounds | TABOO |
Owner of Fisher-Price | MATTEL |
Party purchase | KEG |
Poet who wrote 'I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am' | PLATH |
Pound | BEATON |
Prayer ___ | SHAWL |
Predator-to-be | CUB |
Predicament | MESS |
Production Code org | MPAA |
Put away | ATE |
Quarters | AREAS |
Rains pellets | SLEETS |
Reasons to despair | WOES |
Repeatedly cried 'Land ho!' with no land in sight, maybe? | AGGRAVATEDASALT |
Rhodes of Rhodes scholar fame | CECIL |
Rodent control brand | DCON |
Scoffing reply | IBET |
Screenwriter Ephron | DELIA |
Shoe with holes | CROC |
Show signs of age | WEAR |
Shrink or enlarge | RESIZE |
Signed over | CEDED |
Singer with a palindromic name | ONO |
Something fit for a queen | TIARA |
Spoke horsely? | NEIGHED |
Start of several Hawaiian place names | MAUNA |
Stomach stuff | ACID |
Stuck to the corkboard? | UNDERATACK |
Stumper? | ORATOR |
Stun with sound | DEAFEN |
Substitute anchor during Walter Cronkite's tenure at CBS | ROGERMUDD |
Supply | GIVE |
Tag line? | NAME |
Take heat from? | DISARM |
Taphouse | TAVERN |
Target | AIMAT |
Those in favor | AYES |
Tired runner? | CAR |
Tools used for cutting curves | SABERSAWS |
Track down | LOCATE |
Trig term | ANGLE |
Undertaking | TASK |
Unswerving | LOYAL |
What Carrie needed after the prom? | CHANGEOFADRESS |
Whirlybird whose paint job is flaking off? | APATCHYHELICOPTER |
Wild and woolly? | OVINE |
___ Island (home of Wagner College) | STATEN |
___ Novello Award (songwriter's honor) | IVOR |