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 |