Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Sunday May 16 2021.
‘Hallelujah!’ – PRAI
‘I touched your nose!’ sound – BOOP
‘I’m baffled’ – GOTME
‘No info yet,’ on a schedule – TBA
‘You can’t be a real country unless you have a ___ and an airline’: Frank Zappa – BEER
‘You get the idea’: Abbr – ETC
‘___: Legacy’ (sci-fi sequel) – TRON
– – OUND
– – TICLE
– – BRICATING
– – MERS
– – RAP
– – RUBBER
– – OGOD
– – NFIFTY
– – XURY
– – FFECT
– – PLANT
– – YES
A jokester might say ‘And the pot thickens’ after one – ANTE
A sucker for milkshakes, say – STRAW
According to – PER
Alternative to a blitz – SIEGE
Amassed – RANUP
Anonymous surname – DOE
Apple on the teacher’s desk? – IMAC
Arc on a music score – SLUR
Award to wear – STAR
Bad P.R. for a celeb, maybe – DUI
Baseball announcer’s cry – ITSAHIT
Be angry – BURN
Bill blockers – NAYS
Botanist’s study – FLORA
Breakfast drink sans creamer – CAFENOIR
By-way connection – THE
Carefully avoid – TIPTO
Catch – SNARE
Causes of pocket buzzes – TEXTS
Chats over Twitter, briefly – DMS
Coffin frames – BIERS
Collection on Facebook – ALBUM
Composer Bruckner – ANTON
Congregational chorus – AMENS
Country singer Haggard – MERLE
Court plea, in brief – NOLO
Detectives – PRIVA
Disneyland transport – TRAM
Do – COIF
Dude, slangily – BRAH
Duty – TARIFF
ESPNU covers its games – NCAA
False start? – PSEUDO
Fighting – ATIT
First offer? – CAIN
Fix for a bald spot – HAI
Food found in some bars – GRANOLA
Fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat with two masts – YAWL
French explorer who founded Detroit – CADILLAC
G – THOU
Get to the point? – TAPER
Go over – SPAN
Grp. mobilized by a 911 call – EMS
Hasbro game requiring increasingly quick reflexes – BOPIT
Heating option – OIL
Highly resistant elastomer – SILIC
Hurt badly – MAIM
Hymn of joy – PAEAN
Ill-advised move – NONO
Improved version of an existing product – BETTERMOU
Indian lentil dish – DAL
Innovation in push-ups – MIRACLEBRA
Intangible qualities – AURAS
Investment goal – GAIN
It can represent a folder – ICON
It’s a sign – CUE
It’s water under le pont – EAU
Leaves zip for a tip – STIFFS
Lhasa ___ (dog breed) – APSO
Like cabernet sauvignon – RED
Like Golden Raspberry-‘winning’ films – PANNED
Like some ballots – MAILIN
Like some casts – ENSEMBLE
Like some roller chains and ball bearings – SEL
Literature Nobelist Bellow – SAUL
Longtime Swedish automaker – SAAB
Loud thudding sound – CRUMP
Loud, sharp sound – CLAP
Makes a scene – ACTSUP
Mammal found in the Andean cloud forest – COATI
Marvelous – SUPERDUPER
Meals with Haggadah readings – SEDERS
Mensch – GOODSORT
Metallic fabric – LAME
Mike who served as a Wyoming senator from 1997 to 2021 – ENZI
Mil. leader – GENL
More than just a talker – DOER
Most-often-used – GOTO
Net wt. of many pasta packages – ONELB
Nickname for the Wildcats of the Pac-12 – ZONA
One doing a Spot check? – VET
One given orders around the house – ALEXA
One of the friends on ‘Friends’ – ROSS
Opening for a computer technician? – PORT
Oscar-winning Hanks role of 1994 – GUMP
Phenomenon by which electrons radiate from a heated filament, so named for a famous observer – EDIS
Photo mishap – BLUR
Pitchfork-shaped letters – PSIS
Polishes off – EATS
Pro fighter? – ANTI
Real deal – GENUIN
Reward for a big hit, say – RBI
Shock – APPALL
Shot in the dark – UNEDUCATEDGUESS
Shot in the dark – LASTDITCHEFFORT
Skipping syllables? – TRALA
Skyscraper support – IBAR
Slice and dice, say – PREP
Smut – FILTH
Squarish – BOXY
Start of many Portuguese place names – SAO
Steps up? – RUNGS
Sticker stat – MPG
Suffix with age – ISM
Surgical tool – LASER
Swampy stretch – MIRE
Ta-tas – CIAOS
Takes over (from) – USURPS
Teller of the third tale in ‘The Canterbury Tales’ – REEVE
The natural order of the universe – TAO
Three-time American League M.V.P. of the 1950s – BERRA
Tiny bit – IOTA
Tiny bit – MITE
Tiny bits – ATOMS
Toaster Swirlz brand – EGGO
Tools for landscapers – HEDGET
Tract of land – LOT
Trucker on a radio – CBER
Two-legged stand – BIPOD
Unlikely Oscar winners – HAMS
Unsmiling – STERN
Utterly lost – ATSEA
V.A. concern, for short – PTSD
Varsity – ATEAM
Very easy living – LAPO
Voice mail prompt – TONE
Web file format, for short – HTML
When the first ‘Peanuts’ comic appeared – NINE
Whispered sweet nothings – COOED
Whom the Secret Service dubbed Renegade and Renaissance – OBAMAS
Winner’s sign – VEE
___ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state – ELLEN
___-3 – OMEGA
