New York Times – May 6 2019
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: ADAPTS, NEONATE, PARKER, RIVIERAS.
Clues | Answers |
‘A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it,’ according to Ambrose Bierce | MONEY |
‘Gesundheit!’ elicitor | SNEEZE |
‘It’s a mouse!’ | EEK |
‘Secret’ person who writes a love note | ADMIRER |
‘Sex and the City’ star Sarah Jessica ___ | PARKER |
‘That was a close one!’ | WHEW |
‘Wailing’ instrument | SAX |
‘Way to go, sister!’ | ATTAGIRL |
‘What’s the ___?’ (pessimist’s cry) | USE |
‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’ | AWCMON |
1990s Indiana governor Evan | BAYH |
Actress Hatcher of ‘Desperate Housewives’ | TERI |
Bard’s ‘before’ | ERE |
Box office purchases, for short | TIX |
Boxing venue | RING |
Cling (to) | ADHERE |
Coastal resort areas | RIVIERAS |
Country singer Yearwood | TRISHA |
Drifter | HOBO |
Egyptian cobra | ASP |
Fad | CRAZE |
Fidgety | RESTIVE |
Fish by dragging a net | TRAWL |
Flimflam | FAKERY |
Foreign ___ (international matters) | AFFAIRS |
Frightens | SCARES |
Gave off, as radiation | EMITTED |
Got ready to be operated on | PREPPED |
Hands out cards | DEALS |
Lone Star State baseball player | TEXASRANGER |
Loud noise | DIN |
Lower in position | NETHER |
Lumberjacks | AXMEN |
Makes a screenplay out of | ADAPTS |
Men’s formal attire, informally | TUX |
Minnesota representative Ilhan ___ | OMAR |
Mortar accompanier | PESTLE |
Noah’s craft | ARK |
Noah’s landing place | ARARAT |
Not national, as an airline | REGIONAL |
October’s birthstone | OPAL |
Ones selling commercial time, informally | ADREPS |
Out of neutral, as a car | INGEAR |
Pallid | WAN |
Place for mascara | LASH |
Pod of whales | GAM |
Poseidon’s domain | SEA |
Raison d’___ | ETRE |
Rapid spread of a disease | EPIDEMIC |
River of the underworld | STYX |
Sailor’s affirmative | AYEAYE |
Sandwich chain whose name is French for ‘ready to eat’ | PRETAMANGER |
Search (out) | FERRET |
See 59-Down | RHYMES |
Singer ___ King Cole | NAT |
Someone who was literally born yesterday | NEONATE |
State whose license plates say ‘Famous Potatoes’ | IDAHO |
Swirl of smoke | WISP |
Take unfair advantage of | TRADEON |
Tennis’s Kournikova | ANNA |
Time in history | ERA |
Top 10 song | HIT |
Tushie | PATOOT |
Well-suited | APT |
What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty in ‘Peanuts’ | SIR |
What you might drape a dress or shirt on in a closet | CLOTHESHANGER |
Where to find ‘Cut’ and ‘Paste’ | EDITMENU |
With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other | EYE |
Works like ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ | SATIRES |
Young gallant in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ | MERCUTIO |
___ for tat | TIT |
___ than a doornail | DEADER |