New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tailored item that can have tails SUIT
*Stone tool TOILETBRUSH
Scenarios to consider IFS
LESSENS EBBS
BIT OF A BLUFF CRAG
STAG HART
Vegetable that’s a letter off from an Ivy KALE
ZERO NIL
*Scoop received in a call ICECREAM
*It gets the ball rolling ROTARYJOINT
BACK AGO
Life lines, for short? IVS
LIKE SOME PEANUTS AND CELEBRITIES ROASTED
Colorful variety of lettuce REDLEAF
They might be targeted ADS
Whirl or swirl EDDY
Notable Guinness ALEC
*Shall SPARKLED
Disappointing stocking stuffer LUMPOFCOAL
With every detail perfect TOAT
Aromatic welcome gift LEI
“Ah, yes ?” ISEENOW
The whole world in your hands? ATLAS
Unwelcome surprise in a glass of fresh-squeezed juice SEED
Give the name of DUB
Final points in scores? CODAS
When read forward and then backward, motto that suggests how to interpret this puzzle’s starred clues ALLFORONE
Where to find a very wet sponge REEF
How high rollers want to live LARGE
Rae of “American Fiction” ISSA
Dir. from Atlanta to Athens ENE
Repetitive clicking sound? SHORTI
Schreiber of “Asteroid City” LIEV
“Shirt Front and Fork” sculptor, 1922 ARP
Pounds, perhaps ACHES
Musical lead-in to beat AFRO
Seabird’s nesting spot, say ISLE
STAG SOLO
Title for Al Sharpton: Abbr. REV
How the fish in nigiri is served OVERRICE
Down more than OUTEAT
Carpenter or mason BUILDER
FLASH JIFFY
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE EDGE
*Gone SOMENERVE
WORD WITH SECRET OR SCHOOL TRADE
Collaborator on 1980’s “Double Fantasy” ONO
Having a kink, maybe BENT
TYLENOL ALTERNATIVE ALEVE
“I have to ___ ?” ASK
OSTRACIZE SHUN
Participated in a spin class CYCLED
It’s a start ONSET
ACTOR WILSON OWEN
NEIGHBOR OF LEB. ISR
UNINVITED PARTY GUEST CRASHER
Michael Jackson’s first concert tour after the Jackson 5 BAD
Some Guinness records FIRSTS
WAS AHEAD LED
Texting format inits. SMS
GOES OVER AGAIN REREADS
Where more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated DELAWARE
Athlete with two Grammy-nominated spoken-word albums ALI
Falco of “The Sopranos” EDIE
CRAFT MEASURED IN CUBITS ARK
Apple Music predecessor ITUNES
PART OF M.I.T.: ABBR. INST
The Reds, on a scoreboard CIN
Say “I dunno,” say ELIDE
HEAD OF LETTUCE? CFO
ITALIAN DESSERT GELATO
Coffee order specification ICED
Biblical verb with “thou” DOEST
LOUIS XIV, PAR EXEMPLE ROI
WORLD-WEARY BEATENDOWN
School fig. GPA