NY Times Crossword 17 Aug 24, Saturday Answers

Complete List of Clues/Answers

Across

1 Ireland’s second-best-selling musical act after U2 : ENYA
5 Forsythia, for one : SHRUB
10 Verbally waver : HAW
13 Something shown to a rude houseguest : DOOR
14 Mistreatment : ABUSE
15 “___ Agua Para Chocolate” (hit 1992 foreign-language film) : COMO
16 One might clean up lots of toys : DOG GROOMER
18 Potatoes, in Indian cuisine : ALOO
19 Grown in ___ (brand of frozen French fries) : IDAHO
20 Reason one might read a “Speed Hump” sign and laugh : DIRTY MIND
22 One might be “slippery” : ELM
23 Epic backdrop, maybe : WAR
25 Some skintight clothing : SHAPERS
26 Coal miner’s discovery : SEAM
28 Josh who voices Olaf in “Frozen” : GAD
30 Initial tentative attempt : FORAY
31 Nonstop flight? : STAIRMASTER
35 Jamie Lee Curtis or Neve Campbell, notably : SCREAM QUEEN
37 Really loses one’s cool : GOES NUCLEAR
39 Planned Parenthood doc : OB/GYN
42 Often-bracketed bit of Latin : [SIC]
43 Mark as important, in a way : STAR
45 You! All of you! : SOLVERS
48 Lunes, e.g. : DIA
50 The “1” in 8-8-1, e.g. : TIE
51 “Hold please”? : I NEED A HUG
53 River through Glasgow : CLYDE
55 What lions can do that pumas cannot : ROAR
56 “A deal’s a deal!” : NO BACKSIES!
58 ThinkPads, originally : IBMS
59 ___ anglaise (rich custard) : CREME
60 Survey unit : ACRE
61 Cry for help : SOS
62 Toaster’s opening : HERE’S …
63 Randall’s elder daughter on “This Is Us” : TESS

Down

1 Goes down the drain, perhaps : EDDIES
2 Thinks (on) : NOODLES
3 Stretcher bearers? : YOGA MATS
4 Frustrated cry : ARGH!
5 Portuguese title : SAO
6 “True Detective” and “The Wire,” for two : HBO DRAMAS
7 One-named poet from the 13th century : RUMI
8 App audience : USERS
9 Sea bed? : BERTH
10 Like Medina, Saudi Arabia, vis-à-vis Medina, Ohio : HOLIER
11 So-called “king of the Egyptian gods” : AMON-RA
12 Rustic : WOODSY
15 Scouting gatherings : CAMPOREES
17 Spat : ROW
21 “Get me?” : YA FEEL?
24 Match up : AGREE
27 Fashions out of whatever’s lying around : MACGYVERS
29 Sends to hell : DAMNS
32 Worked on a collapsible table, say : IRONED
33 Hit Netflix show whose pilot episode is titled “Red Light, Green Light” : SQUID GAME
34 Stanley of “Julie & Julia” : TUCCI
36 Low-cost lager from Anheuser-Busch, familiarly : NATTY ICE
38 Eleven in Las Vegas : RAIDERS
39 God slain by his brother, then resurrected by his wife : OSIRIS
40 Animal also known as a pygmy chimpanzee : BONOBO
41 Sparkles : GLEAMS
44 ___ Puffs : REESE’S
46 In Buffalo, it’s a faux pas to order this with Buffalo wings : RANCH
47 Buttress, with “up” : SHORE …
49 Frustrated cry : ACK!
52 Eschew the subway, say : UBER
54 Something that’s good to do a 180 on? : LSAT
57 These, in French : CES

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