New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
STINGER BEE
In agony PAINED
Makeshift umbrella holder URN
Plant, as an idea, in sci-fi slang INCEPT
Go a-wassailing CAROL
Certain ocean pollution SLICK
Aims for ASPIRESTO
Base hit result, maybe ONEON
The sun and the moon ORBS
Say rude things about DIS
“That’s the spot!” AAH
PINES (FOR) YENS
TATTOOS INK
ACTOR JOHN OR SEAN ASTIN
Tic-tac finish TOE
WAS IDLE SAT
Any email that begins “Congrats, you’ve been selected ?,” probably SPAM
CHUCK HURL
The “O” of M.O. OPERANDI
MOUNTAIN LIONS PUMAS
WAS SORRY ABOUT RUED
Horseshoer’s target HOOF
High low voice TENOR
Grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich CUBAN
Display in a shoebox, maybe DIORAMA
ASTRONAUT GRISSOM GUS
TEASE RIB
Goes on a mountain run SKIS
Makeup of many birdfeed cakes SUET
Stand that a speaker might take PODIUM
“___ queen!” (enthusiastic cry) YAS
KIND OF WAVE SINE
Holy title with a tilde SAO
1982 sci-fi classic with a 2010 sequel TRON
UNFOUNDED RUMOR CANARD
Host’s request RSVP
Amazon swimmers ANACONDAS
To be, in Havana SER
Authors’ submissions: Abbr. MSS
SOUNDS OF RECOGNITION AHAS
San Bernardino suburb whose name means “beautiful hill” LOMALINDA
ACTRESS BULLOCK SANDRA
REST OF THE DAY? SIESTA
States of upheaval UNRESTS
BUILDINGS EDIFICES
Longest river entirely within Spain EBRO
Popular booth in New York’s Times Square TKTS
ECON. INDICATOR GDP
“Quit it!” STOP
Sunshine, so to speak RAYS
Unisex fragrance launched in 1994 CKONE
HOSPITAL UNIT BED
Brings to a tie MAKESEVEN
One checking the books AUDITOR
Body of water between Sicily and Greece IONIANSEA
Bwana Swahili :: ___
Inits. in Congress beginning in 2019 AOC
Playable character in an “artificial life” game franchise SIM
“Double Fantasy” singer ONO
Hawaiian wood used to build the earliest surfboards KOA
ROW OAR
___ al-Fitr (feast occasion) EID
Many a Rembrandt OIL
REGARDING ASTO
A-NUMBER-ONE TOPS
Group that gets marching orders ARMY
Performs a gymnastics move requiring flexibility ? or enters answers into this puzzle’s four shaded parts DOESTHESPLITS
New York lake that’s the source of the Susquehanna River OTSEGO
To be certain SURELY
MATRIARCHAL NICKNAME MOMMA
Old English, for better or worse? ETYMOLOGY
Perform spectacularly, colloquially KILLIT
ALL ___ DAY SOULS
Song of celebration HYMN
Includes on a thread CCS
CLOD CRETIN