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 |