5/23/16 Answer New York Times Crossword

5/23/16

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1D
Oregano, for one
HERB

2D
Baseball’s Felipe
ALOU

3D
Filth
SMUT

4D
Good drink for a sore throat
HOT TEA

5D
First or last quarter in the lunar cycle
HALF-MOON

6D
Exclude
OMIT

7D
Jacob’s wife
LEAH

8D
Catch in a net
ENMESH

9D
Shares on Facebook, maybe
REPOSTS

10D
The Phantom of the Opera lead role
ERIK

11D
Futuristic mode of transportation in the “Back to the Future” films
HOVERBOARD

12D
Big fuss
ADO

13D
Wager
BET

21D
Early automaker Ransom E. ___
OLDS

22D
Average guy
JOE

26D
Greetings in Honolulu
ALOHAS

27D
Lukewarm
TEPID

28D
What’s beyond the Pearly Gates
HEAVEN

29D
As predicted
EXPECTEDLY

30D
Flight watchdog org.
FAA

31D
Get rid of
TRASH

32D
Cash dispenser, briefly
ATM

33D
Exhausted
SPENT

37D
Animal house?
ARK

39D
Guerrilla Guevara
CHE

40D
Like some doughnuts and wigs
POWDERED

43D
One calling from a Swiss mountaintop
YODELER

45D
Troubles
WOES

48D
Questlove’s hairdo, for short
FRO

49D
Nursery rhyme seat
TUFFET

50D
Doing concerts here and there
ON TOUR

55D
Connecticut Ivy
YALE

56D
Kind of list
TO-DO

57D
Ginormous
HUGE

58D
Approximately
OR SO

59D
Slumber
REST

60D
Encore!
MORE!

61D
Prof’s degree
PHD

62D
Corn unit
EAR

1C
___ browns (breakfast order)
HASH

5C
Golf target
HOLE

9C
Where “they tried to make me go,” in an Amy Winehouse hit
REHAB

14C
Red Muppet on “Sesame Street”
ELMO

15C
Last word of grace
AMEN

16C
Wear away, as soil
ERODE

17C
Defeat decisively
ROUT

18C
___ Payne, One Direction heartthrob
LIAM

19C
Turn on one foot, in basketball
PIVOT

20C
One being laughed at
BUTT OF THE JOKE

23C
A Nightmare on ___ Street
ELM

24C
Help!, at sea
SOS

25C
Cheese-loving pest
RAT

28C
Where Mom or Dad sits at dinner
HEAD OF THE TABLE

33C
___ sells (advertising maxim)
SEX

34C
Take to the skies
SOAR

35C
Not walk completely upright
STOOP

36C
Mama’s mate
PAPA

38C
Org. co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois
NAACP

41C
When doubled, a Hawaiian fish
MAHI

42C
Each and ___
EVERY

44C
Place after win and place
SHOW

46C
Totally cool
RAD

47C
Locale
NECK OF THE WOODS

51C
Building blaster, for short
TNT

52C
R&B’s ___ Hill
DRU

53C
Cub Scout unit
DEN

54C
Where it’s calmest in a hurricane
EYE OF THE STORM

61C
Part of a bicycle or loom
PEDAL

63C
An hour before office closing time, maybe
FOUR

64C
Cookie in cookies-and-cream ice cream
OREO

65C
Actress Berry
HALLE

66C
Brink
EDGE

67C
Space race competitor, for short
USSR

68C
Clothesline alternative
DRYER

69C
Word that follows steel, open or pigeon
TOED

70C
Boring way to learn
ROTE