New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 16

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