New York Times – Jul 19 2018
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: ALLAH, England, EUROSTAR, MARTIN, OLEO, PEEP, SPAR, TALE.
New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Jul 19 2018 Thursday
Clues | Answers |
*Contemptuous smile | TOFFS |
*Crafts site | FUTZ |
*Firework that doesn’t work | EVE |
*Military vehicles | UBOLT |
*Resistance units | PINT |
*Shakespearean prince | IBM |
___ Minderbinder, lieutenant in “Catch-22” | MILO |
17-time Best Actress nominee | STREEP |
1847 novel partly set on a whaler | OMOO |
Adds (up) | TOTS |
Alternative to Bowser | REX |
American ally in W.W. II | USSR |
Annual Austin media event, informally | SXSW |
Approximately | ABOUT |
Approximately | NEAR |
Arm | LIMB |
Band with the top 10 hits “Lady” and “Babe” | STYX |
Biggest-selling newspaper in England | THESUN |
Christmastime purchases | FIRS |
Chunnel train | EUROSTAR |
Conflict | STRIFE |
Cry from behind a counter | NEXTPLEASE |
Economized | SCRIMPED |
Ending with song or slug | FEST |
First N.F.L. player on the cover of Sports Illustrated | YATITTLE |
First, second or third person | UMP |
Flush fastener | TNUT |
God, to many | ALLAH |
Greek salad ingredient | FETA |
Harden | ENURE |
He was accompanied by the guard dog Cerberus | HADES |
It may be surrounded by beaches | ISLE |
Like la nuit | NOIRE |
Like the Vietnamese language | TONAL |
Look (into) | PEER |
Lucy’s bandleader husband | DESI |
Lump | CLOD |
Major European ethnic group | SLAVS |
Many an ancient tombstone | STELE |
Margarine | OLEO |
Neighbor of a Montanan | ALBERTAN |
Not fight seriously | SPAR |
Old Beatles rival, with “the” | STONES |
Old PalmPilot products, in brief | PDAS |
Opposite of plummet | SOAR |
Page designs | LAYOUTS |
Participated in a bee | SEWED |
Places to hibernate | DENS |
Poet who wrote “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” | ELIOT |
Prepare to drive | TEEUP |
Rapper with the 1999 album “The Seventh Deadly Sin” | ICET |
Sauce for falafels | TAHINI |
She: Sp. | ELLA |
Short, for one | MARTIN |
Short, for short | LIL |
Slightest protest | PEEP |
Soft ball material | NERF |
Something said to smell sweet | SUCCESS |
Surname of three baseball brothers | ALOU |
Targets for speech therapists | LISPS |
Trim | CROP |
Twist someone’s words, say? | EDIT |
Unadulterated | PURE |
Unintended consequence | SIDEEFFECT |
Upright | ERECT |
Vessel that’s 1% full? | YACHT |
Vodka and tomato juice cocktail | BLOODYMARY |
Western New York Iroquois | ERIES |
What Moses supposes his toeses are, in an old verse | ROSES |
What the answers to the six starred clues follow, as hinted at by 66-Across | SECRETCODE |
Where Ali won his 1974 world heavyweight title | ZAIRE |
Whodunit, e.g. | TALE |
Windy City rail org. | CTA |
Wine label abbr. | ALC |
Woman’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet | ELSIE |
Word with tongue or twist | TIE |
Worth a great deal | RICH |
You have no ___ | IDEA |