May 15 2016 - New York Times Crossword Answers
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| '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 |