New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 16

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