New York Times, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Crossword Answers
Published in L.A. Times Crossword.
Clues | Answers |
___ bear | KOALA |
___ Quimby, Beverly Cleary heroine | RAMONA |
___-fi | SCI |
1980 boxing film for which De Niro won Best Actor | RAGINGBULL |
Auction action | BID |
Banjo spot, in song | KNEE |
Bit of unfinished business | LOOSEEND |
Blues legend with a guitar named Lucille | BBKING |
Brothers Grimm villain | OGRE |
Bygone Mach 1 breaker, in brief | SST |
Cardinals’ home, in stats | ARI |
Cherry or walnut | WOOD |
Chinese poultry dish marinated in wine | DRUNKENCHICKEN |
Cold War jet | MIG |
College city in upstate New York | UTICA |
Communication method in much of the 2021 film “CODA,” for short | ASL |
Connecticut Ivy Leaguer | ELI |
Copy | APE |
Couldn’t agree more! | AMEN |
Cover, as tasks | SEETO |
Criticize harshly | BLAST |
Cursory appraisal | ONCEOVER |
Discharges | EGESTS |
Dress (up), quaintly | TOG |
Drops the ball big-time | BLOWSIT |
Early quinoa cultivator | INCAN |
Eric ___, 1980 Olympic speed skating gold medalist | HEIDEN |
Flat refusals | NOS |
Formal “you,” in Spanish | USTED |
Former L.A. Laker Odom | LAMAR |
Fourth word in the “Star Wars” prologue | AGO |
Fresh take on a classic, perhaps | REMAKE |
Genre of Death Cab for Cutie | EMO |
Get really serious really quickly | ESCALATE |
Gun | REV |
Hard to swallow, in a way | INEDIBLE |
Hoffman who played Captain Hook | DUSTIN |
Home to about 60% of the world’s population | ASIA |
Illusionist’s skill | WILE |
Island like Kiritimati | ATOLL |
Jazz piano style played by Fats Waller and Mary Lou Williams | STRIDE |
Jim Beam competitor | WILDTURKEY |
Legislative bodies | SENATES |
Like chewable calcium, often | CHALKY |
Marx’s “___ Kapital” | DAS |
Name, as a price | ASK |
One with a whistle … who sometimes 1-Across? | REF |
Part of a casual layered look | TSHIRT |
Passport fig. | IDNO |
PC key | ALT |
Pita pocket cuts, e.g. | SLITS |
Pitching statistic? | NETSALES |
Pizzeria chain | SBARRO |
Place for a concert or lecture | HALL |
Practically forever | AEONS |
Recliner feature | LEGREST |
Remark from one having cold feet, perhaps | BRR |
Residents of ancient Minos | CRETANS |
Right in the kisser! | POW |
Rode the bench | SAT |
Rouse | WAKEN |
Shake a leg, in Shakespeare | HIE |
Siri’s platform | IOS |
Slim Shady, by another name | EMINEM |
Soccer superstar Cristiano | RONALDO |
Some old-timers | FOGEYS |
Sound of spring? | BOING |
Sporty car roof option | TTOP |
Streaming sites? | CREEKS |
Stretched to get a better look, say | CRANED |
They’re always ready for a good time … or a description of 18-, 25-, 35- and 49-Across? | PARTYANIMALS |
Thinks the world of | ESTEEMS |
Torments | HARASSES |
Tot’s mount | ROCKINGHORSE |
Tree creature of Middle-earth | ENT |
Willy Wonka prop | CANE |
Windy City rail system, in brief | CTA |