The May 21 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 Hit a serve past
- 5a Ballet dancer’s bend
- 9a Lightens (up)
- 14a Word after golden or slide
- 15a Often-discarded part of a fruit
- 16a Canonized person
- 17a Cheat sheets
- 19a Post-panel sesh
- 20a Male cat
- 21a Big name in public opinion research
- 23a It might be poked
- 24a Cry of disgust that sounds like 24-Down
- 27a Fruit also known as calabash
- 31a “Yeah, I suppose”
- 33a Soup kitchen utensils
- 34a Stare open-mouthed
- 35a Target, as a wide receiver
- 38a Outbuilding for many a historic home
- 43a Millennial’s successor, informally
- 44a Tennis do-overs
- 46a “That’s pretty nifty!”
- 49a Fashion house whose logo features Medusa
- 52a Counterpart to a landline
- 55a Appreciative text
- 56a Schedule abbr.
- 57a Middle name for Alec Baldwin and Carly Jepsen
- 58a Go the other way
- 60a Indian royals
- 63a Make safer, in a way … or what the starts of 17-, 27-, 38- and 52-Across might be?
- 68a Pageant topper
- 69a Often-discarded part of a fruit
- 70a Inactive
- 71a One-___ bandit
- 72a Biblical pronoun
- 73a Nonnegotiable thing
- Down
- 1d Airplane’s path on a flight map, often
- 2d Junkyard dog
- 3d Roth of “Inglourious Basterds”
- 4d Red scare?
- 5d Sneak previews
- 6d Happening, in modern parlance
- 7d Bumbling
- 8d Old car make named for Henry Ford’s son
- 9d Abbr. on a lawyer’s business card
- 10d Highly rated, as a bond
- 11d Iniquitous
- 12d Stick it out
- 13d Array at a farmer’s market
- 18d Noggins
- 22d Language in which “w” can be a vowel
- 24d Australian boot brand
- 25d Green dip, familiarly
- 26d Purifying filter acronym
- 28d November birthstone
- 29d One purring in Peru
- 30d Nonalcoholic beer brand
- 32d Composer Rachmaninoff
- 36d Ripen
- 37d Kind of motor used in robotics
- 39d Down-to-earth
- 40d Lead-in to mingle or mezzo
- 41d Ticket assignment
- 42d Cut quite a figure?
- 45d Something a prenatal ultrasound can determine
- 46d Mafia code of silence
- 47d Windbag’s output
- 48d Classic video game with the catchphrase “He’s on fire!”
- 50d Biological catalyst
- 51d Collect what’s been sown
- 53d “Blue Ribbon” brewer
- 54d Toffee bar brand since 1928
- 59d Beam
- 61d “What ___ the odds?”
- 62d Down in the dumps
- 64d Wax producer
- 65d Shelley’s “To a Skylark,” for one
- 66d World Cup chant
- 67d Put quarters in, as a meter