New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 17

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