New York Times – May 12 2019
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: LOON, ODED, SPAS, TV.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Bus Stop’ playwright | INGE |
| ‘Hey, over here!’ | PSST |
| ‘I said ENOUGH!’ | STOPIT |
| ‘Ora pro ___’ | NOBIS |
| 2006 novel for which Cormac McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize | THEROAD |
| 45 things | HIFIS |
| Actor Bud of ‘Harold and Maude’ | CORT |
| Adjusted to some index – or how 23-, 35-, 66- and 93-Across are measured per this puzzle? | ONASLIDINGSCALE |
| Alee, at sea | PROTECTED |
| As well | ALSO |
| Assailed | HADAT |
| Attainable | INREACH |
| Bad thing to be left in, with ‘the’ | LURCH |
| Ballerina’s support | TOE |
| Beat the rap | WALK |
| Bee or Em | AUNT |
| Before, old-style | ERENOW |
| Bel ___ cheese | PAESE |
| Besmirch | TAR |
| Big brand in soft drinks | SUNKIST |
| Brand pitched as ‘Always Comfortable’ | SERTA |
| Break from screen viewing | EYEREST |
| Camera inits | SLR |
| Chemical compound | ENOL |
| City famous for its Cuban sandwiches | TAMPA |
| Clubs, e.g. … or entry requirement for some clubs | SUIT |
| Coffee-flavored liqueur | TIAMARIA |
| Coffin supports | BIERS |
| Communicates | IMPARTS |
| Competitor of Amazon Handmade | ETSY |
| Contented sound | AAH |
| Cool | HIP |
| Coveted Scrabble tile | ESS |
| Crustaceans that carry their own camouflage | MOSSCRABS |
| D.C. nine | NATS |
| Desktop item since 1998 | IMAC |
| Dubious excuse for not turning in homework | ILOSTIT |
| Early 20th-century author who foresaw TV and wireless telephones | BAUM |
| El primer mes | ENERO |
| Employ cajolery on | COAX |
| Establishment frequented by Falstaff | TAVERN |
| Excessively | TOO |
| Feeling unsettled, in a way | SEASICK |
| Follow-up shot | BOOSTER |
| Former Showtime series about Henry VIII | THETUDORS |
| Gas whose name comes from the Greek for ‘strange’ | XENON |
| Gives up for good | SWEARSOFF |
| Gloomy | DOUR |
| Grab quickly | SNAPUP |
| Grad | ALUM |
| Great time | ERA |
| Hatfield haters | MCCOYS |
| Have nothing to do with | SHUN |
| Heroic poetry | EPOS |
| Hightail it | RUN |
| Home of Hearst Castle | SANSIMEON |
| Home of Sinbad Island | BASRA |
| In the indeterminate future | SOMEDAY |
| In the least | ATALL |
| Individual tic-tac-toe squares | NINTHS |
| Kitchen wraps | TINFOILS |
| Letters at sea | USS |
| Like bourbon | AGED |
| Like Henry VIII, religiously | ANTIPAPAL |
| Like Indiana Dunes among the U.S.’s 61 national parks | NEWEST |
| Line on a map: Abbr | RTE |
| Lose steam | TIRE |
| Lousy newspaper | RAG |
| Maryland athlete, for short | TERP |
| Moon of Saturn named after a Greek Oceanid | TELESTO |
| Morning coat | DEW |
| Moved surreptitiously | STOLE |
| Multitask command | MACRO |
| Nascar ___ (demographic group) | DADS |
| Nevada’s largest county by area | NYE |
| Nickname for Thomasina | TAMMIE |
| Nipple | TEAT |
| Not fast | EAT |
| One of a bunch? | BANANA |
| One side of an argument | CON |
| Online search metric | HITS |
| Openly gay | OUT |
| Org. with Sharks and Penguins | NHL |
| Outfit | GETUP |
| Overcoat material | TWEED |
| Packers’ org.? | NRA |
| Parts of reviews you might not want to read | SPOILERS |
| Performing whale, once | SHAMU |
| Phil who sang ‘Love Me, I’m a Liberal’ | OCHS |
| Philosophy | ISM |
| Pitched over | RETHREW |
| Pizza chain since 1956 | SBARRO |
| Places where cucumber slices are not for salad | SPAS |
| Poor | SUBPAR |
| Powerful queen, in hearts | SPADE |
| Predators of armadillos and rabbits | OCELOTS |
| Preliminary exam: Abbr | QUAL |
| Puncture | PIERCE |
| Pushback | FLAK |
| Q-V link | RSTU |
| Really binged, briefly | ODED |
| Recalcitrant child’s cry | IWONT |
| Rick of ‘Ghostbusters’ | MORANIS |
| Roster builders, briefly | GMS |
| Round part of a tool | PEEN |
| Serving no practical purpose | OTIOSE |
| Set aflame | TORCHED |
| Setting for fraud, maybe | ARSON |
| Singer Bocelli | ANDREA |
| Small dam | WEIR |
| Some group dinners | POTLUCKS |
| Squabbling | ATIT |
| States as fact | AVERS |
| Symbol of craziness | LOON |
| Take place | OCCUR |
| Tending toward an outcome | TELIC |
| They may be bitter or defensive | ENDS |
| Three-time Pro Bowler Culpepper | DAUNTE |
| Ticket information | SECTION |
| Time to knock off work, maybe | FIVE |
| Transport to Sugar Hill, in a classic song | ATRAIN |
| Tundra’s lack | TREES |
| Twilled fabric | SERGE |
| Unlike most of Perry Mason’s clients | GUILTY |
| W.W. II admiral nicknamed ‘Bull’ | HALSEY |
| Wan | ASHEN |
| What’s measured by [circled letters] | EARTHQUAKES, WINDSPEED, TEMPERATURE, MINERALHARDNESS |
| Whip | FLAY |
| Whole lot | TON |
| Wild goat | IBEX |
| Women’s soccer star ___ Morgan | ALEX |
| Word before and after ‘all’ | MINE |
| Work on a wall, maybe | ART |
| Yuri Zhivago’s love | LARA |
| Zip | NIL |
| ___ bean | FAVA |
| ___ colada | PINA |