New York Times, Saturday, May 18, 2019
Published in New York Times Crossword. Tags: Israel, MAT, NECK, New York Times.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Go right ahead!’ | SEEIFICARE |
| ‘It’s futile’ | NOUSE |
| ‘Let me demonstrate’ | HERESHOW |
| ‘What a jerk!’ | SOMEPEOPLE |
| ‘___ feste Burg ist unser Gott’ (Bach cantata) | EIN |
| Acclaimed 1942 film banned in Germany until after W.W. II | CASABLANCA |
| Alma mater of N.B.A. M.V.P. Russell Westbrook | UCLA |
| Arizona rival | NESTEA |
| Bad choices in it might cost you an arm and a leg | HANGMAN |
| British weight | TONNE |
| Bryophytic growth | MOSS |
| Calculus calculation, for short | MIN |
| Cheesy crust | GRATIN |
| Classic opera set in Cyprus | OTELLO |
| Conflict that saw the sieges of Ladysmith and Kimberley | BOERWAR |
| Cow or chicken follower | POX |
| Cross with | SOREAT |
| Daring way to fly | SOLO |
| Drawing | ENTICING |
| Edge | CUSP |
| Empathize with | RELATETO |
| Ending of eight U.S. presidents’ names | SON |
| Foreign correspondent, maybe | PENPAL |
| Guitar accessories | CAPOS |
| Hard core | PIT |
| Have trouble sleeping, say | TOSS |
| Home of the Isle of Man | IRISHSEA |
| Home of the Unesco World Heritage Site of Palmyra | SYRIA |
| It’s found just south of the White House’s South Lawn | ESTREET |
| Jets are found in it, for short | AFC |
| Joining, with ‘up’ | TEAMING |
| Language of South Asia | NEPALI |
| Like some barbecue | TEXAN |
| Like southern Israel vis-a-vis northern Israel | DRIER |
| Like the lion slain in Hercules’ first labor | NEMEAN |
| Measures taken to make golf courses tougher in the early 2000s | TIGERPROOFING |
| Modern game equipment | VRHEADSET |
| Narrow part | NECK |
| NASA’s ___ Research Center | AMES |
| Often-braised cut of beef | SHORTRIB |
| One looking for bugs | BETATESTER |
| One overseas | UNO |
| Ostentatious | FLASHY |
| Photo framer’s offering | MAT |
| Porter of note | COLE |
| Quad bike, e.g | ATV |
| Reach | ACCESS |
| Rep | AGENT |
| Richard who composed the music for ‘Damn Yankees’ and ‘The Pajama Game’ | ADLER |
| Run out | LAPSE |
| Salt | MARINER |
| Singer of the song ‘Shadowland’ in ‘The Lion King’ | NALA |
| Some guitar basics | GCHORDS |
| Something to build on | LOT |
| Sports star who once declared ‘I am America’ | ALI |
| Sprint and such | TELECOMS |
| Stadium divertissement | KISSCAM |
| Station | TRAINSTOP |
| Subj. of the 2017 memoir ‘Working on the Dark Side of the Moon’ | NSA |
| Subject of the Supreme Court cases Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges | MARRIAGE |
| That’s the ticket! | CITATION |
| The whole time | ALLALONG |
| Tough person to get information from | CLAM |
| Venomous snake | MOCCASIN |
| Walt Disney’s middle name | ELIAS |
| ___ oil | CASTOR |