Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Saturday May 8 2021.
‘Hold on!’ – WAITAMINUTE
‘How adorable!’ – AWSOCUTE
‘I’m right here’ – AHEM
‘Marriage Story’ Oscar winner – DERN
‘Wall Street’ catchphrase – GREEDISGOOD
Accept the blame for – OWN
Actress Shields, mother of Brooke – TERI
Annual genre writing award – AGATHA
Archery need – AIM
Be in the works – BREW
Business letters – LTD
Calculator button next to cos – SIN
Camper’s gear chain – REI
Celebrity portmanteau beginning in 2012 – KIMYE
Cheap cab, perhaps – HOUSERED
Chump – SAP
Club type – IRON
Common complex rule – NOPETS
Composition test – ASSAY
Correction for a wild pitch – AUTOTUNE
Day to post a throwback picture on social media: Abbr – THU
Dumpster fire – HOTMESS
Easy friendliness – BONHOMIE
Flood – DELUGE
Get too old – AGEOUT
Goes on a dinner date, e.g – EATSOUT
Grade-A – TOPTIER
Grocery store found in Michigan? – IGA
Horizontal – LYING
III, e.g., in ‘Richard III’ – ACT
Impertinent sort – SNIP
Irish name that’s a Slavic name backward – AIDAN
It becomes another question when its first letter is moved to the end – WHO
It can lay a one-and-a-half-pound egg – EMU
It involves much ear-tugging and head-shaking – CHARADES
Just a bit – ATOM
Kind of trip taken solo – EGO
Lacks – DEARTHS
Lead-in to stars or daylight – SEE
Like some unpleasant comments – SNARKY
Like the last in a line – NTH
More than suspicious of – ONTO
Nibbles – NOSHES
Noodle dish whose name indicates its cuisine – PADTHAI
Notable examples of crossing a line, in brief – TDS
Number of days it takes Mercury to orbit the sun – EIGHTYEIGHT
Once-in-a-lifetime events – BIRTHS
One stoner to another – DUDE
Org. with an annual Codebreaker Challenge – NSA
Perfumery compound – ESTER
Pete Buttigieg’s home state: Abbr – IND
Pumbaa’s friend in ‘The Lion King’ – TIMON
Ring in the holiday spirit? – WREATH
Satisfied sigh – AAH
Soft, green food – MASHEDPEAS
Sorority letter – RHO
Steaming – IRATE
Supreme court member? – NBAALLSTAR
The old you? – THOU
They may be used in a pinch – HERBS
Throw (together) – SLAP
Turn right, say – TIGHTEN
Utah’s ‘Industry,’ e.g – MOTTO
Void – NEGATE
Walt Whitman wrote one beginning ‘Lo, ’tis autumn’ – SESTET
Was up, in a sense – BATTED
Wear – SPORT
What a nod might mean – IGETIT
What a shrug might mean – NOMATTER
Words after ‘The end’? – NIGHTYNIGHT
Years ___ – AGO
___ bowl – ACAI
