New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Apr 18 2018 Wednesday
| Clues | Answers |
| ___ crawl | PUB |
| ___ Family Singers (group that inspired “The Sound of Music”) | TRAPP |
| ___ Reader | UTNE |
| Adjust, as a piano | TUNE |
| Alphabet run | CDE |
| Apt name for a worrier | STU |
| Auction units | LOTS |
| Beverage for a flu sufferer | HOTTEA |
| BMW alternative | LEXUS |
| Buffoon | ASS |
| Camera setting | APERTURE |
| Cause of a cold | GERM |
| Central Asian plains | STEPPES |
| Charlie Brown lamentation | RATS |
| Cheers for toreadors | OLES |
| Colorful, conical candy on a stick | ASTROPOP |
| Cork’s land | EIRE |
| Court proposition | PLEA |
| Day-Glo colors | NEONS |
| Definitely! | OHYES |
| Egyptian menaces | ASPS |
| Fat chance! | IBET |
| Fat chance! and others | RETORTS |
| Flat sign | TOLET |
| Flynn of film | ERROL |
| Frank who was a cohort of Al Capone | NITTI |
| Get ready to fight, say | ARM |
| Gets comfortable | NESTLES |
| Groening who created “The Simpsons” | MATT |
| Headlight | BEAM |
| Highway patrollers | TROOPERS |
| Hockey great whose jersey number rhymed with his name | ORR |
| Hypothetical particle that travels faster than light | TACHYON |
| It creates an opening at the dentist’s office | TOOTHEXTRACTION |
| It might involve x, y and z | MATHEXAM |
| Italian province known for sparkling wine | ASTI |
| Items at an emergency shelter | COTS |
| Key of Pachelbel’s Canon: Abbr. | DMAJ |
| Kingdom that’s spread throughout the world | ANIMALIA |
| Leave en masse | EMPTYOUT |
| Like Cockneys, in British lingo | NONU |
| Like leopards and dominoes | SPOTTED |
| Location of “Yellow Submarine” on the album “Yellow Submarine” | SIDEONE |
| Loudly mourn | BEWAIL |
| Lump on a trunk | BURL |
| Make more alluring | SEXUP |
| Meeting point | NEXUS |
| Mr. ‘iggins in “My Fair Lady” Y | ENRY |
| Much-covered 1956 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins song … hinting at what happens three times in this puzzle’s solution | IPUTASPELLONYOU |
| News inits. | UPI |
| Old MacDonald cry | MOOMOO |
| One who talks on the phone a lot? | SIRI |
| Ones making a case for drinking? | SODAS |
| Part of party mix, often | CORNCHEX |
| Pet from a pet shelter, e.g. | ADOPTEE |
| Popular tech news site | CNET |
| Pretentious sort | SNOB |
| Public spat | SCENE |
| Quick rundown | SYNOPSIS |
| Raced | TORE |
| Raced | SPED |
| River isle | AIT |
| Rock’s Kings of ___ | LEON |
| Section of a clothing catalog | MENS |
| Singles, doubles and triples | BASEHITS |
| Southeastern Conference football powerhouse, for short | BAMA |
| Suffix with right | EOUS |
| Swiss miss, maybe: Abbr. | MLLE |
| Taking off, as business | BOOMING |
| That HURTS! | YOW |
| Those, in Madrid | ESAS |
| Tuna cut | STEAK |
| Wan | ASHY |
| Weighty work | TOME |
| When repeated, “Old MacDonald” cry | BAA |
| With glee | JOYOUSLY |
| Works, as dough | KNEADS |
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