New York Times – Jul 11 2018
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: AFAR, OFNOTE, OPAL, RIO, Star Trek, TENOR, UNSEAT, WET.
New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Jul 11 2018 Wednesday
Clues | Answers |
___ in arms | BABE |
___ Majesty | HER |
___ pickle | DILL |
___ Stark, patriarch on “Game of Thrones” | NED |
2016 Olympics host, informally | RIO |
Author Emile | ZOLA |
Barely made, with out | EKED |
Be behind | OWE |
Bench press muscle, for short | PEC |
Big purveyor of vitamin supplements | GNC |
Bird whose name is also the initials of a school in Ypsilanti | EMU |
Bit of a lark | ANTIC |
Bob with the Silver Bullet Band | SEGER |
Byes | TATAS |
Capital of Tasmania | HOBART |
Chicken of the sea | TUNA |
City nicknamed “The Gateway to the West” | STLOUIS |
Conceives | CREATES |
Contacted without a trip to the post office, say | EMAILED |
Could no longer fit into, as one’s childhood clothing | OUTGREW |
Daft | MAD |
Dampen | WET |
Debbie Downer | BUZZKILL |
Don’t ___ it! | SWEAT |
Egyptian tourist spot | GIZA |
Emmy-winning Kudrow | LISA |
Entrenched | ROOTED |
Express one’s opinion in no uncertain terms | SOUNDOFF |
For whom “it is not possible either to trick or escape the mind,” per Hesiod | ZEUS |
Former | ONETIME |
Frenzied place | ZOO |
Fresh spin on a familiar idea | NEWTAKE |
General tone | TENOR |
Gone With the Wind locale | GEORGIA |
Great deal | GOB |
Hammer or sickle | TOOL |
Hey! from Jesus | OYE |
How’s it ___? | GOIN |
Incommunicado period | RADIOSILENCE |
Iowa college | COE |
Leave, slangily | BOUNCE |
Like the Canadian flag’s maple leaf | RED |
Lucy’s guy | DESI |
Many miles away | AFAR |
Meditative exercises in a steamy room | HOTYOGA |
Memorable 1995 hurricane | OPAL |
Observatory activity | STARGAZING |
O’Hare and LAX | HUBS |
One of the Nixons | TRICIA |
Paul who painted “Fish Magic” | KLEE |
Pianist/comic Victor of old TV | BORGE |
Pittsburgh pro | STEELER |
Pledge drive giveaways | TOTES |
Procrastinator’s promise | SOON |
Put on a truck, say | LOAD |
Ride on a merry-go-round, maybe | UNICORN |
Roman sun god | SOL |
Running shoe brand | AVIA |
Set off a polygraph | LIED |
Significant | OFNOTE |
Six for dinner? | WORDLENGTH |
Spook grp. | CIA |
Star Trek role for George Takei | SULU |
Suddenly stopped communicating with, in modern lingo | GHOSTED |
Supposing that | IFSO |
Tousled | MUSSED |
Tube traveler | OVUM |
Up there in years | OLD |
Utility bill meas. | BTU |
Verb with “thou” | ART |
Verbally attack, with “at” | LASHOUT |
Vote out | UNSEAT |
W.’s father | BUSHSR |
Wade in the Baseball Hall of Fame | BOGGS |
What a late sleeper may use … resulting in 19-, 31- and 40-Across? | SNOOZEBUTTON |
What a weather balloon might be mistaken for | UFO |