Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Wednesday June 16 2021.
‘Frida’ and ‘Selena,’ e.g – BIOPICS
‘Hips Don’t Lie’ singer, 2006 – SHAKIRA
‘___ out!’ (ump’s cry) – YER
1950s White House nickname – IKE
Adorable one – CUTIE
Almond extract, e.g – NUTOIL
Anne Fletcher misses the mark with this first film in a dance franchise – STEPDOWN
Assemble – UNITE
Baited – LURED
Barbershop job – TRIM
Big guns – RIFLES
Big name in tractors – DEERE
BMW competitor – AUDI
Captain’s record – LOG
Census info – SEX
Cleaning tool – DUSTER
D.O.J. agency – ATF
Egyptian cross – ANKH
Elia Kazan bungles this John Steinbeck novel adaptation – WESTOFEDEN
Embryo’s home – UTERUS
Fancy fabric – LAME
Fey of ’30 Rock’ – TINA
Finished – ATANEND
Foe of Austin Powers – DREVIL
Follower of smart or bad – ASS
For your ___ pleasure – VIEWING
Frustrate – STYMIE
Gossip, in slang – TEA
Gumshoes – TECS
Handout from a maître d’ – MENU
Handy sorts – DIYERS
Have in inventory – STOCK
Hit the slopes – SKI
Hon – BAE
Indigenous people of Easter Island – RAPANUI
Inventor’s happy cry – ITWORKS
It made the peseta passé – EURO
Item needed for burning, once – BLANKCD
Items purportedly burned outside the Miss America Pageant in 1968 – BRAS
Jackman of ‘X-Men’ – HUGH
Jim Sheridan gives Daniel Day-Lewis nothing to work with in this Irish dramedy – MYRIGHTFOOT
Job app ID – SSN
Korean alphabet system – HANGUL
Led astray … or like the films at 19-, 25-, 40- and 57-Across? – MISDIRECTED
Letters seen on some tote bags – NPR
Lip – SASS
Lit ___ – CRIT
Lose one’s cool – ERUPT
Make hard to read, in a way – ENCODE
Monk known as the ‘Father of English History’ – STBEDE
Mountain lions – PUMAS
Muppet with a big orange nose – BERT
Nice dinnerware – CHINA
Nonkosher sandwich – BLT
Online crafts shop – ETSY
Operator of the California Zephyr – AMTRAK
Photographer Goldin – NAN
Pool or fitness center, for a hotel – AMENITY
Prefix that makes a pseudoscience when paired with 44-Down – PSYCHO
Private Instagram exchanges, briefly – DMS
Protracted – LENGTHY
Quatrain rhyme scheme – ABBA
Rapper Megan ___ Stallion – THEE
Recipe instruction – ADD
Respected tribe member – ELDER
Rian Johnson helms this snoozer of a whodunit starring Daniel Craig – KNIVESIN
Secretly loops in, in a way – BCCS
See 5-Across – KINESIS
Stop up – DAM
Subjects for Jane Goodall – CHIMPS
Tater ___ – TOT
Tavern offerings – ALES
Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys – NEIL
Thorny tree – ACACIA
Tiptop – APEX
Unnamed person – ONE
Victorian – PRIM
Winners of Super Bowl 50 – BRONCOS
Word that fills both parts of the Shakespeare quote ‘These ___ delights have ___ ends’ – VIOLENT
Word with luck or waiter – DUMB
___ Jackson, a.k.a. Ice Cube – OSHEA
