New York Times 2024 05 18 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
USE A FINGER BOWL	RINSE
BIBLICAL COINS	SHEKELS
Unlikely socializer	HERMIT
Many a character in the 2018 animated film “Smallfoot”	YETI
Prepare to cook sous vide, perhaps	SEAL
Laughs (at)	SCOFFS
Official administrations	OATHS
Colorful celebration of spring	HOLI
Shill for, informally	REP
Its wool is the world’s rarest natural fiber	VICUNA
A nearly 40-foot-tall statue of her once stood within the Parthenon	ATHENA
Proofreading disclaimer	SIC
Morales of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise	ESAI
PC support squads	ITTEAMS
“The world’s most famous unknown artist,” per Lennon	ONO
Nun’s habit?	CELIBACY
Spots for bérets	TETES
Blacksmith-turned-agricultural magnate of the 19th century	DEERE
“The Man Who Fell to Earth” director, 1976	ROEG
“I’m speechless”	THEREARENOWORDS
Largest city on the Pacific coast of the Americas	LIMA
A wedding couple might be seen on one	SAVETHEDATECARD
Cowpoke’s friend	PARDNER
Andre Agassi, e.g.	IRANIANAMERICAN
Was selected to face, as in a tournament	DREW
Cross state lines?	TIRADE
RAISE	HOIST
Where Steve Jobs first worked after college	ATARI
Grps. that rarely meet in the summer	PTAS
Wasn’t upstanding	LEANED
HAVE BECAUSE OF	OWETO
Only U.S. state with a unicameral legislature: Abbr.	NEB
Portrayer of Mrs. Which in 2018’s “A Wrinkle in Time”	OPRAH
One might display a menu	SITE
Spanish opposite of “pobre”	RICO
“So you confess!”	AHA
76% of U.S. governors in 2024, a record low	MALES
GO AFTER	SEEK
LIKE SOME SCOTCH	PEATY
Hit the heck out of the ball	RIPIT
Printing shortcut	CTRLP
Where you might shop for the sheer fun of it?	VICTORIASSECRET
GOES FIRST	OPENS
RELATED THING	TALE
CHOPHOUSE CHOICE	FILET
HOTEL ROOM AMENITY	ROBE
[UH-OH]	GULP
MAKE TOAST?	RUIN
FALL OVER	TRIPON
___ Okafor, 2004-05 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year	EMEKA
Turkish inns	IMARETS
TIME OUT	LEAVE
REMOTE BUTTON: ABBR.	REW
___ BEAUTY	INNER
Disburses	SPENDS
“The Lord of the Rings” antagonist	SAURON
Sobriquet behind 154 sonnets	THEBARD
EXALT	LIFTUP
“No more fooling around!”	IMEANITTHISTIME
Certain drag racer	NITROCAR
Crowd energizer at a hip-hop concert	HYPEMAN
Start of a 1950s political slogan	ILIKE
Singer Brendon who fronted Panic! at the Disco	URIE
REPRIMAND	CALLONTHECARPET

USE A FINGER BOWL

RINSE

BIBLICAL COINS

SHEKELS

Unlikely socializer

HERMIT

Many a character in the 2018 animated film “Smallfoot”

YETI

Prepare to cook sous vide, perhaps

SEAL

Laughs (at)

SCOFFS