5/7/16
Are you stuck with the New York Times Crossword Puzzle Today? Stuck No More. We offer complete solutions as well as “word hint” mode to give you that little extra push. Or simply use this cheat sheet to help you get the best and fastest completion time possible.
YOU ARE NOW VIEWING SPOILER COMPLETE ANSWER MODE.
Jump to Hints Only Mode now if you simply want first letter of each answers.
1D
Where Fermi studied
PISA
2D
Cut out
OMIT
3D
Place to be avoided
NO-GO AREA
4D
Not learned
INHERENT
5D
Like a boat’s cockpit, usually
AFT
6D
Drilling sites
RIGS
7D
Plays with emotions?
DRAMAS
8D
Rocker with the 1976 album “Live Bullet”
SEGER
9D
I wish *I* had that
MUST BE NICE
10D
On point
APT
11D
Common use for pipe cleaners
CRAFTS
12D
Like tea bags
POROUS
13D
Plunder
RAVAGE
14D
Words that may elicit a worried gulp
OR ELSE!
21D
Show title shown on a license plate
LA LAW
24D
Like much of the Everglades
MARSHY
27D
Way up at a ski resort
TOW
28D
Primary loser to J.F.K. in 1960
HHH
29D
Longtime nickname in comics
DYNAMIC DUO
31D
Certain sandal
T-STRAP
33D
First word of Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
TWO
35D
Neapolitan Novels author Ferrante
ELENA
36D
Pleasure principle
HEDONISM
37D
Frequent chant in 2008
YES WE CAN!
38D
Go for it, with “in”
OPT
39D
Grp. doing private shows?
USO
42D
Home of the soccer team that FIFA named the Club of the Century
MADRID
43D
Mother-or-son Philippine president
AQUINO
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
44D
Bit of gang warfare
RUMBLE
45D
Some wedding parties
RABBIS
46D
Hall-of-Fame N.B.A. player known as “The Worm”
RODMAN
49D
One of the singing Braxton sisters
TRACI
53D
Mtg.
SESS
55D
Where Bambara is widely spoken
MALI
56D
Fit for service
ONE-A
58D
Experts in power: Abbr.
EES
60D
Symbol of charge density
RHO
1C
Small, slim daggers
PONIARDS
9C
Apple variety
MAC PRO
15C
Single from Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”
I’M ON FIRE
16C
Major protest
UPROAR
17C
Many a Harpo Marx joke
SIGHT GAG
18C
Extremely fast?
STARVE
19C
Dip ___ in
A TOE
20C
Get the lead out?
SMELT
22C
Poor little one in Coleridge’s “To a Young Ass”
FOAL
23C
Automatic, for one
ARM
25C
Like Egypt
ARAB
26C
Jerks
TUGS
27C
They’re followed on message boards
THREADS
30C
Hmm
LET’S SEE
32C
Writer who gave his name to an annual award OC
HENRY
33C
Many vacationers bring them home
TANS
34C
Question before a personal update
WHAT’S NEW WITH YOU?
40C
Something depicted for goodness’ sake?
HALO
41C
With 48-Across, enters stealthily
CREEPS
42C
One-knee plea
MARRY ME
46C
Entertains at bedtime
READS TO
47C
Color of McCartney’s “Sgt. Pepper” uniform
AQUA
48C
See 41-Across
INTO
50C
Belt line?
POW!
51C
Sharp’s opposite
DUMB
52C
Sharp’s handful
CARDS
54C
Captain of fiction
NEMO
57C
Like corduroy
RIBBED
59C
Cheese choice
AMERICAN
61C
As a replacement
IN LIEU
62C
Simplest sort of deal
CASH SALE
63C
Insistent retort
DOES SO!
64C
A good cure for it is sleep, per W. C. Fields
INSOMNIA