Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Monday June 21 2021.
‘Caution – ___ paint’ (sign) – WET
‘De-e-elish!’ – YUM
‘Give my compliments to the ___’ – CHEF
‘Let’s put things in perspective’ … or a title for this puzzle – ITSALLRELATIVE
‘Rocks,’ in a drink – ICE
1950s-’60s singer Bobby – DARIN
1963 Best Actress Patricia – NEAL
Atlanta train system – MARTA
Big office supply brand – AVERY
Bottom of the barrel – DREGS
Brain divisions – LOBES
Capable of floating, as a balloon – LIGHTERTHANAIR
Captain’s place on a ship – HELM
Cash register drawer – TILL
Chairperson, e.g – HEAD
Cousins of paddles – OARS
Cracker brand with a yellow-and-blue logo – RITZ
Debtors’ notes – IOUS
Distance between belt holes, maybe – INCH
Domesticated – TAME
Ending with farm or home – STEAD
Feature over many a doorway – ARCH
Gawk at – OGLE
Gives a thumbs-up – OKAYS
Honorific for Gandhi – MAHATMA
How long it might take for a mountain to form – EON
Imposing and then some – LARGERTHANLIFE
Jersey – SHIRT
Ken, to Barbie – BEAU
Kids around – JESTS
Like a poison ivy rash – ITCHY
Like Girl Scout ‘Mints’ – THIN
Longtime Yankees manager Joe – TORRE
Low-ranking ‘Star Trek’ officer: Abbr – ENS
Made a comeback – RALLIED
Make sense – ADDUP
Many a get-rich-quick scheme – SCAM
Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter From Birmingham ___’ – JAIL
Meal cooked in a Crock-Pot – STEW
Mideast bigwig – EMIR
Moolah – BREAD
Mother of Zeus (and an anagram of 15-Across) – RHEA
Move from the gate to the runway, say – TAXI
Nabbed – TOOK
Neon or xenon – GAS
Never betraying – LOYALTO
Part to play – ROLE
Penny – CENT
Pioneering journalist Nellie – BLY
Pompeii or Machu Picchu – RUIN
Positive responses – YESES
Rapper ___-Z – JAY
Rich vein of ore – LODE
Runner Usain – BOLT
Salt Lake City’s home – UTAH
Sanctimonious – HOLIERTHANTHOU
Saunter – AMBLE
Shakespeare villain who says ‘Virtue? A fig!’ – IAGO
Sign at a highway interchange – EXIT
Simplicity – EASE
Smidgen – TAD
Sombrero, e.g – HAT
Soul singer Thomas – IRMA
Speck of land in the sea – ISLET
Stir-fried noodle dish – PADTHAI
The Scales – LIBRA
Units on a football field: Abbr – YDS
Vindaloo accompaniment – NAAN
Wail – CRY
What you’re hired to do – JOB
When repeated, water cooler sound – GLUG
Where bears hibernate – DENS
Wife of Zeus – HERA
Woman’s name that’s also a Spanish pronoun – ELLA
Word before ‘bite’ or ‘go’ – ILL
Word sometimes confused with ‘lie’ – LAY
___ menu (where to find Cut, Copy and Paste) – EDIT
___ Susan (dining table centerpiece) – LAZY
