The May 16 2024 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
Search clue name or clue number.
- Across
- 1a Seabird’s nesting spot, say
- 5a Musical lead-in to beat
- 9a Pounds, perhaps
- 14a Ostracize
- 15a Schreiber of “Asteroid City”
- 16a Word with secret or school
- 17a *Gone
- 19a How high rollers want to live
- 20a “Shirt Front and Fork” sculptor, 1922
- 21a Life lines, for short?
- 22a Like some peanuts and celebrities
- 24a *Stone tool
- 27a Scenarios to consider
- 28a Tailored item that can have tails
- 29a Lessens
- 33a Bit of a bluff
- 36a *Scoop received in a call
- 38a Back
- 40a Colorful variety of lettuce
- 42a They might be targeted
- 43a *Shall
- 45a With every detail perfect
- 47a Vegetable that’s a letter off from an Ivy
- 48a Notable Guinness
- 50a Aromatic welcome gift
- 52a *It gets the ball rolling
- 56a “Ah, yes ?”
- 59a The Reds, on a scoreboard
- 60a Give the name of
- 62a Final points in scores?
- 63a When read forward and then backward, motto that suggests how to interpret this puzzle’s starred clues
- 66a Say “I dunno,” say
- 67a Where to find a very wet sponge
- 68a Actor Wilson
- 69a Biblical verb with “thou”
- 70a Whirl or swirl
- 71a Part of M.I.T.: Abbr.
- Down
- 1d Rae of “American Fiction”
- 2d Repetitive clicking sound?
- 3d Disappointing stocking stuffer
- 4d Dir. from Atlanta to Athens
- 5d Tylenol alternative
- 6d Some Guinness records
- 7d Title for Al Sharpton: Abbr.
- 8d How the fish in nigiri is served
- 9d The whole world in your hands?
- 10d Uninvited party guest
- 11d Stag
- 12d Competitive advantage
- 13d Unwelcome surprise in a glass of fresh-squeezed juice
- 18d Zero
- 23d Down more than
- 25d Neighbor of Leb.
- 26d Carpenter or mason
- 30d World-weary
- 31d Michael Jackson’s first concert tour after the Jackson 5
- 32d Texting format inits.
- 34d Craft measured in cubits
- 35d Italian dessert
- 37d Head of lettuce?
- 38d “I have to ___ ?”
- 39d School fig.
- 41d Where more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated
- 44d Goes over again
- 46d Athlete with two Grammy-nominated spoken-word albums
- 49d Participated in a spin class
- 51d Apple Music predecessor
- 53d It’s a start
- 54d Flash
- 55d Collaborator on 1980’s “Double Fantasy”
- 56d Coffee order specification
- 57d Stag
- 58d Falco of “The Sopranos”
- 61d Having a kink, maybe
- 64d Was ahead
- 65d Louis XIV, par exemple