5/15/16 Answer New York Times Crossword

5/15/16

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1D
Land line?
COAST

2D
Trig term
ANGLE

3D
Substitute anchor during Walter Cronkite’s tenure at CBS
ROGER MUDD

4D
___ Island (home of Wagner College)
STATEN

5D
Cleveland team, informally
CAVS

6D
Ex Machina robot
AVA

7D
Evocative of yesteryear
RETRO

8D
Belief systems
CREEDS

9D
Finishes with
ENDS ON

10D
Predicament
MESS

11D
Poet who wrote “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am”
PLATH

12D
Kate’s partner of old TV
ALLIE

13D
Hartford-based Fortune 100 company
AETNA

14D
Layer
STRATUM

15D
Head locks
HAIR

16D
Good at one’s job
ABLE

17D
Reasons to despair
WOES

18D
In need of a steer
LOST

24D
Shrink or enlarge
RESIZE

25D
Target
AIM AT

29D
Highly regarded
GREAT

31D
Glide effortlessly
SKATE

34D
Act
STATUTE

36D
That was sure close!
PHEW!

38D
Contributes to a GoFundMe campaign
DONATES

39D
Stumper?
ORATOR

40D
Food sometimes sold with a flavor packet
RAMEN

41D
Those in favor
AYES

42D
Predator-to-be
CUB

43D
Codon carrier
RNA

45D
Lord of the Flies protagonist
RALPH

47D
Hoppy drink
ALE

48D
Actress Carrere
TIA

49D
Kevin who played Hercules on TV
SORBO

51D
Exchange cyclically
ROTATE

52D
Body, metaphorically
CLAY

53D
Author of the 1984 memoir “Mayor”
KOCH

59D
Owner of Fisher-Price
MATTEL

60D
Lacking creature comforts
SPARTAN

62D
Party purchase
KEG

64D
It often contains “lies”
EPITAPH

65D
Ireland Erin :: Britain
ALBION

66D
Dalmatian, e.g.
CROAT

67D
Kedrova of “Torn Curtain”
LILA

68D
___ Novello Award (songwriter’s honor)
IVOR

69D
Rhodes of Rhodes scholar fame
CECIL

70D
Move through a crowd, maybe
SIDLE

73D
Ceiling stain’s cause
LEAK

75D
Browser bar text
URL

76D
Jamaican genre
SKA

77D
Undertaking
TASK

79D
Affirms
AVOWS

80D
Tools used for cutting curves
SABER SAWS

81D
Put away
ATE

82D
Even so
YET

84D
Break down
PARSE

86D
Take heat from?
DISARM

88D
Spoke horsely?
NEIGHED

89D
Something fit for a queen
TIARA

94D
Fashion editor’s predictions
TRENDS

95D
Experiment subject
TESTEE

97D
Continental divides?
OCEANS

99D
Unswerving
LOYAL

100D
Ere
AFORE

101D
Start of several Hawaiian place names
MAUNA

103D
City near Lake Nasser
ASWAN

105D
Screenwriter Ephron
DELIA

106D
Baseball commissioner after Giamatti and Vincent
SELIG

107D
Shoe with holes
CROC

108D
Colonial home, you might say
HIVE

109D
Stomach stuff
ACID

110D
Lowest possible turnout
NONE

111D
Rodent control brand
D-CON

112D
Housemaid’s ___ (bursitis)
KNEE

115D
Hypotheticals
IFS

1C
Tired runner?
CAR

4C
Hard to find
SCARCE

10C
Production Code org.
MPAA

14C
Prayer ___
SHAWL

19C
Singer with a palindromic name
ONO

20C
Taphouse
TAVERN

21C
Magazine with a palindromic name
ELLE

22C
Out of bounds
TABOO

23C
Repeatedly cried “Land ho!” with no land in sight, maybe?
AGGRAVATED A SALT (“aggravated assault”)

26C
Inflames
RILES

27C
Rains pellets
SLEETS

28C
Fighting off drowsiness?
RESISTING A REST (“resisting arrest”)

30C
Like tweets
TERSE

31C
One of the “cities of the plain”
SODOM

32C
Internal pump
HEART

33C
Belarussian capital
MINSK

35C
Lose it
SNAP

37C
Peanuts girl
EUDORA

42C
2016 campaigner
CRUZ

44C
Jack ___ (member of the Royal Navy)
TAR

46C
Conger eel? Au contraire!
THAT’S A MORAY (“That’s Amore”)

50C
Stuck to the corkboard?
UNDER A TACK (“under attack”)

54C
Not with a bang but a whimper poet
ELIOT

55C
Tag line?
NAME

56C
Inedible
BAD

57C
La Scala premiere of 1887
OTELLO

58C
Show signs of age
WEAR

59C
Associates
MATES

60C
Erwin of 1950s TV
STU

61C
Bring along
PACK

63C
Pound
BEAT ON

65C
Whirlybird whose paint job is flaking off?
A PATCHY HELICOPTER (“Apache helicopter”)

70C
Christian in Hollywood
SLATER

71C
Supply
GIVE

72C
___ All Too Much (Beatles song)
IT’S

73C
Cuba ___
LIBRE

74C
Dethrone
OUST

78C
Track down
LOCATE

80C
Something just occurred to me …
SAY …

83C
Correct copy
EDIT

84C
Down-filled garment
PARKA

85C
Adversary who shows up at romantic dinners?
A RIVAL DATE (“arrival date”)

87C
Finally, I can buy that house!
A LOAN AT LAST! (“alone at last”)

90C
Cut (off)
LOP

91C
Scoffing reply
I BET!

92C
Company that sold Spirographs
KENNER

93C
Santa Baby singer
KITT

96C
___ Body? (first Peter Wimsey novel)
WHOSE

98C
Its symbol is a star and crescent
ISLAM

102C
Quarters
AREAS

104C
Hand makeup
CARDS

107C
What Carrie needed after the prom?
CHANGE OF A DRESS (“change of address”)

112C
1980s-’90s Olympian Jackie Joyner-___
KERSEE

113C
Maker of Caplio cameras
RICOH

114C
Major shopping centers aren’t among the prizes!
YOU CAN’T WIN A MALL (“you can’t win ‘em all”)

116C
Wild and woolly?
OVINE

117C
Ligurian Sea feeder
ARNO

118C
Stun with sound
DEAFEN

119C
GameCube successor
WII

120C
Signed over
CEDED

121C
Lacking excess
LEAN

122C
Divines
SENSES

123C
Lose rigidity
SAG