New York Times – May 16 2018
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: ACHES, ALT, ATL, PEG, SUV, TREND, TV.
New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions – May 16 2018 Wednesday
Clues | Answers |
___ grecque (served with olive oil, lemon juice and seasonings) | ALA |
___ Mahal | TAJ |
___ official … | ITS |
___ X | BRAND |
[Don’t touch my bone!] | GRR |
A cluttered one is a sign of a cluttered mind, it’s said | DESK |
According to | ASPER |
Actress McDonald | AUDRA |
Address, with “to” | SPEAK |
Aladdin monkey | ABU |
Beth’s preceder | ALEPH |
Bodily complaints | ACHES |
Bronze, but not silver or gold | ALLOY |
Chair designer Charles | EAMES |
City where trap music originated: Abbr. | ATL |
Classic hairstyle … or a hint to the puns in 17-, 25-, 39- and 51-Across | FRENCHTWIST |
Compete | VIE |
Country singer Tillis | MEL |
Deep, deep pit | ABYSS |
Dickens’s ___ Heep | URIAH |
Eliciting an “ugh,” maybe | YUCKY |
Emmy-winning Falco | EDIE |
Fellow bringing roses, perhaps | BEAU |
Few and far between | SPARSE |
First word of “The Raven” | ONCE |
Focus of a Facebook sidebar | TREND |
Fodder for sports analytics | STATS |
Freeway divisions | LANES |
Gangster’s gun | GAT |
Get Happy composer | ARLEN |
Get under the skin of | RILE |
Give and take | SWAP |
Grand finale? | CRU |
Hard throw, in baseball | PEG |
Have as a customer | SELLTO |
Hook up (to) | ATTACH |
Hyundai Santa Fe or Tucson, briefly | SUV |
Issue | TOPIC |
It contains M.S.G. | NYC |
It might begin “Did you hear …?” | RUMOR |
Item above a kitchen stove | FAN |
Jigsaw, e.g. | POWERTOOL |
John who played an older Kunta Kinte on “Roots” | AMOS |
Key below Z, on a Mac | ALT |
Kind of bike or kayak | TANDEM |
Miss identification? | SHE |
More rational | SANER |
Named, for short | IDED |
Names in film credits | CAST |
Nickname for a clumsy composer? | CLODDEBUSSY |
Nickname for a fiery philosopher? | BLAZEPASCAL |
Nickname for a glitzy author? | JEWELSVERNE |
Nickname for a sloppy painter? | TOOLOOSELAUTREC |
Old blues singer Johnny | OTIS |
Parched | DRY |
Persona non ___ | GRATA |
Place, as a bet | LAY |
Port at the west end of Lake Superior | DULUTH |
Prefix with colonialism | NEO |
Prime minister called “Pandit” | NEHRU |
Put on TV | AIRED |
Rush-hour | DRIVETIME |
Schedules | SLATES |
Secular | LAIC |
See 45-Across | ACS |
Setting for 46-Across on a very hot day | HIGH |
Shape of a swan’s neck | ESS |
Soda bottle unit | LITER |
Sordid sort | SLEAZE |
Stark of “Game of Thrones” | NED |
Start of every ZIP code in Pennsylvania | ONE |
Sunken track | RUT |
The bay in the fifth, for one | TIP |
The vasty deep, in Shakespeare | SEA |
Toyota coupe sold from 1970 to 2006 | CELICA |
TV host Philbin | REGIS |
What a current flows through | ANODE |
What a shame! | TSK |