23 May 2021 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 23 May 2021

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G
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L
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Supply for an ultimate Frisbee team : DISCS
6
2019 box-office flop described by one critic as "Les Meowsérables" : CATS
10
Picks the brain of : ASKS
14
Extemporizes : VAMPS
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"Why should ___?" : ICARE
20
Feeling tender : ACHY
21
Apartment, in real estate lingo : UNIT
22
How spring rolls are cooked : INOIL
23
Oscar-winning actress born Mary Louise : MERYL
24
One side of a 2015 nuclear agreement : IRAN
25
It's irreversible : TIME
26
University of Florida athlete : GATOR
27
"That was great!" - "No, it stunk!" : DIFFERENCEOFOPINIONS
31
Setting for Jo Nesbo's best-selling crime novels : OSLO
32
They have stems and white heads : HALFNOTES
33
Mild, light-colored cigars : CLAROS
36
Have because of : OWETO
38
Drive (from) : OUST
39
Recurring pain? : IMP
42
Route 70 in {Route 10, Route 95, Route 101, Route 70, Route 25} : HIGHWAYMEDIAN
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Snitch : TATTLER
47
Hit film set aboard the spaceship Nostromo : ALIEN
48
Cereal grain : OAT
49
Fastener that leaves a flush surface : TNUT
51
Modern party planning tool : EVITE
52
Lofty : TALL
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Collector's item : CURIO
55
Word after combat or cowboy : BOOT
58
What two Vikings have explored : MARS
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Royal staff : SCEPTER
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Sort represented by the đŸ€“ emoji : NERD
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Fruits often used in sushi : AVOCADOS
66
Cattle in [cattle / pigs] : STOCKDIVIDEND
69
Burrito condiment : HOTSAUCE
73
Vodka mixer : SODA
74
Hopeless predicament : RATTRAP
79
Birthstone for Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : OPAL
80
Toffee bar brand : SKOR
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What the nose knows : SMELL
84
Major move, for short : RELO
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"... unless you disagree" : ORNOT
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Naturally occurring hexagonal crystals : SNOW
90
"Dames at ___" (Broadway musical) : SEA
91
Was fed up : HADIT
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Comics character with the dog Daisy : DAGWOOD
95
Bear x tiger : ANIMALPRODUCT
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"Billions" airer, for short : SHO
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Et ___ : ALIA
101
Hamilton, to Burr : ENEMY
102
Green cards, informally : AMEXES
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Offering to a houseguest : SPAREROOM
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Hardly any : AFEW
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Car in {plane, car, train, horse, car, car, train} : MODEOFTRANSPORTATION
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Pong company : ATARI
114
Shakespeare character who inquires "Are your doors lock'd?" : IAGO
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Greet grandly : HAIL
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Provide funding for : ENDOW
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Was accepted : GOTIN
119
___ mess, English dessert of berries, meringue and whipped cream : ETON
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Its merchandise often comes with pictorial instructions : IKEA
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"Set Fire to the Rain" singer : ADELE
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Part of a golf club : SHAFT
123
Mathematician Descartes : RENE
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Credit application figs. : SSNS
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PC platform popular in the '80s : MSDOS
Down
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Grow faint : DIM
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Coffee order specification : ICED
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Garment whose name sounds like an apology : SARI
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Sign of distress : CRYFORHELP
5
Like many wildflower seeds : SELFSOWN
6
Boutros Boutros-Ghali's home city : CAIRO
7
Nearly 5,000 square yards : ACRE
8
Comparative word : THAN
9
Matched up : SYNCHED
10
What has interest in a car? : AUTOLOAN
11
Sound of disdain : SNIFF
12
Long, loose robe : KIMONO
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Leave momentarily : STEPOUT
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Brief evocative account : VIGNETTE
15
Diarist Nin : ANAIS
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"Hello ___" (old cellphone ad line) : MOTO
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Subatomic particle : PION
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Some nice cameras, for short : SLRS
28
Wife of Albert Einstein : ELSA
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Wipe out, slangily : EATIT
30
"___ deal" : ITSA
33
Has a tĂȘte-Ă -tĂȘte : CHATS
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Pale pinkish purple : LILAC
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Light-footed : AGILE
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Muhammad's father-in-law : OMAR
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Cause of a smudge : WETINK
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First work read in Columbia's Literature Humanities course : ILIAD
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Like some news coverage : METRO
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Squeeze : PRESS
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"Nice going!" : YOUROCK
44
Crux of the matter : NUB
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Rating for risqué shows : TVMA
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___-in-the-hole (British dish) : TOAD
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Whale constellation : CETUS
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Massive ref. books : OEDS
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Have things in common : OVERLAP
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Like music that uses conventional keys and harmony : TONAL
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Org. whose website has a "What Can I Bring?" section : TSA
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Summer Olympics host before Tokyo : RIO
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They may come in a boxed set : DVDS
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Summer hrs. in Iowa : CDT
67
Co. captains? : CEOS
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First line of a Seuss classic : IAMSAM
69
Parts of cars and stoves : HOODS
70
High-profile interviewer of Harry and Meghan : OPRAH
71
Style of "Roxanne" in "Moulin Rouge!" : TANGO
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Drawn-out : SLOW
75
Easterlies : TRADEWINDS
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Done again : REDUX
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Chef Waters who pioneered the organic food movement : ALICE
78
Mrs. ___, "Beauty and the Beast" character : POTTS
81
Kind of vaccine used against Covid : RNA
83
Slippery : EELY
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Partially : TOAPOINT
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Two-person meeting : ONEONONE
89
Certain sots : WINOS
91
Words often replaced when singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" : HOMETEAM
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Disney character who says "Some people are worth melting for" : OLAF
94
Less sportsmanlike : DIRTIER
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Where the King lived : MEMPHIS
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Tennis's Nadal, familiarly : RAFA
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Make sparkling : AERATE
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Font flourish : SERIF
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Tease : RAGON
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Cartographic collection : ATLAS
106
In Touch and Out, for two : MAGS
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Texter's "Then again ..." : OTOH
108
Cloud contents : DATA
109
Trees under which truffles might grow : OAKS
110
"De ___" (response to "Merci") : RIEN
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Took too much, for short : ODED
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___ contendere : NOLO
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___ Moore, antipoverty entrepreneur of the Robin Hood Foundation : WES