New York Times – Jun 26 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Inside the N.B.A.’ airer |
TNT |
| ‘Kewl!’ |
RAD |
| ‘Pardon …’ |
AHEM |
| ‘Please show some compassion!’ |
HAVEPITY |
| ‘That’s more than I want to know!’ |
TMI |
| ‘The Governator’ |
ARNIE |
| ‘Through many dangers, ___ and snares I have already come’ (‘Amazing Grace’ lyric) |
TOILS |
| ‘___ be my pleasure’ |
ITD |
| ‘___ the season …’ |
TIS |
| A card? |
ACE |
| Alternatives to Macs |
PCS |
| Asia’s ___ Sea |
ARAL |
| Balls or fire preceder |
SPIT |
| Bathroom bar |
IVORY |
| Bathroom tile shade |
ECRU |
| Be highly esteemed |
RATE |
| Before, poetically |
ERE |
| Big name in headphones |
KOSS |
| Building material for an 80-Across (in two different ways?) |
ADOBE |
| Burgundy of ‘Anchorman’ |
RON |
| Catch |
NAB |
| Charms |
ENAMORS |
| Choice word? |
EENIE |
| City of Light, informally |
PAREE |
| Clear for takeoff? |
DEICE |
| Climbs |
RISES |
| Cold War synopsis |
YANKEESDEFEATREDS |
| Compete |
VIE |
| Conflict at sea |
MARINERSBATTLEPIRATES |
| Cotton or country follower |
CLUB |
| Cowardly Lion harasser |
TOTO |
| Curled one’s lip |
SNEERED |
| Dear one? |
DIARY |
| Decides, in a way |
VOTESON |
| Deli offering |
LOX |
| Deli roll |
BIALY |
| Delicacy usually eaten as an appetizer |
SNAIL |
| Downside |
CON |
| Drive-___ |
THRU |
| Dry |
ARID |
| Dura ___ (brain membrane) |
MATER |
| Eight days after the nones |
IDES |
| Fair-hiring inits |
EEO |
| Faulty connections? |
BADDATES |
| Focus of study for Niels Bohr |
ATOM |
| Food ___ (feelings after big meals) |
COMAS |
| Foyer fixture |
COATRACK |
| Geological flat top |
MESA |
| Gets fitted for a suit? |
LAWYERSUP |
| Gives the old heave-ho |
EXPELS |
| Go haywire |
ACTUP |
| Hardly original works |
RETREADS |
| Heart |
CORE |
| Hussein : Obama :: ___ : Garfield |
ABRAM |
| Incapacitate, in a way |
TASE |
| It may be recounted |
TALE |
| It requires a balancing act |
UNICYCLE |
| Italian vessel? |
CRUET |
| John who wrote ‘Appointment in Samarra’ |
OHARA |
| Lead-in to dealer or dialer |
AUTO |
| Leave runny on the inside, say |
SOFTBOIL |
| Leftover |
ODDMENT |
| Leftovers |
ENDS |
| Letters on many a racecar |
STP |
| Logician’s word |
NOR |
| Long stretch |
EON |
| Long stretch |
ERA |
| Low mounts? |
ASSES |
| Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder, e.g |
HOVERCAR |
| Main character in Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ |
SAMSA |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Marching band? |
ANTS |
| Most-applied-to sch. in the U.S |
UCLA |
| Not mad |
SANE |
| Number cruncher, for short |
CPA |
| On the button |
EXACT |
| Once-common campus event |
SITIN |
| One in a gray suit, for short |
REB |
| Only guest host in the 21 years of Leno’s ‘The Tonight Show’ |
COURIC |
| Orange Pixar character |
NEMO |
| Org. with the Eddie Eagle safety program |
NRA |
| Othello, for one |
MOOR |
| OutKast chart-topper |
HEYYA |
| Overthrow of a monarchy |
NATIONALSTOPPLEROYALS |
| Paratroopers’ gear |
CHUTES |
| Parenting problem at a zoo |
TIGERSCANTHANDLECUBS |
| Part of a plot |
ACRE |
| Particulars, in slang |
DEETS |
| Pentium creator |
INTEL |
| Pitched poorly |
OUTOFTUNE |
| Police blotter letters |
AKA |
| Pool site |
SPA |
| Prepped |
READIED |
| Profess |
AVER |
| Queen ___ |
BEE |
| Queen ___ (pop music nickname) |
BEY |
| Raft material |
BALSA |
| Rapt |
FOCUSED |
| Rimes with rhymes |
LEANN |
| River ___ (tributary of the Thames) |
LEA |
| Roger Bannister, notably |
MILER |
| Rubens or Raphael |
OLDMASTER |
| SAT org |
ETS |
| Scope |
AMBIT |
| See 15-Across |
ABODE |
| Sein : German :: ___ : French |
ETRE |
| Seventh film in the ‘Rocky’ series |
CREED |
| Short shorts |
HOTPANTS |
| Show of respect at the Vatican |
PADRESBOWTOCARDINALS |
| Show weariness |
SAG |
| Siberian river |
LENA |
| Smart ___ |
ALECK |
| Southern beauty |
BELLE |
| Spill one’s secrets |
SING |
| Split pair |
EXES |
| Staple at a luau |
POI |
| Stoked |
AMPED |
| Subj. for a radio astronomer |
SETI |
| Supercontinent of 200 million years ago |
PANGAEA |
| Take a hit |
TOKE |
| Takes the place of, in batting |
HITSFOR |
| The Pink Panther, in ‘The Pink Panther’ |
GEM |
| The Seal of Solomon and others |
TALISMANS |
| Time out? |
NAP |
| Tree with catkins |
ALDER |
| Twosome |
DYAD |
| Unsympathetic response to a complainer |
OHBOOHOO |
| Until |
UPTO |
| Warhol’s ‘Campbell’s Tomato Juice Box,’ e.g |
POPART |
| Waver of a wand |
TSAAGENT |
| Way off |
AFAR |
| Welcome to the fold? |
BAA |
| What a constant hand-washer probably has, for short |
OCD |
| Winter Palace resident |
TSAR |
| Wood in Lucius Malfoy’s wand |
ELM |
| Word repeated in James Brown’s ‘It’s a ___ ___ ___ World’ |
MANS |
| World of Warcraft beast |
ORC |
| Yemen, once |
SHEBA |
| ___ characters (basic means of writing Chinese) |
HAN |
| ___ queen |
DRAMA |
| ___ russe |
ALA |
