The full solution for the NY Times May 17 2023 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This Wednesday’s puzzle is edited by Will Shortz and created by Parker Higgins.
Across Clues
- Goes on a mountain runSKIS
- The sun and the moonORBS
- Inits. in Congress beginning in 2019AOC
- Body of water between Sicily and GreeceIONIANSEA
- Any email that begins “Congrats, you’ve been selected ?,” probablySPAM
- Brings to a tieMAKESEVEN
- High low voiceTENOR
- “Quit it!”STOP
- Display in a shoebox, maybeDIORAMA
- ClodCRETIN
- Makeshift umbrella holderURN
- Group that gets marching ordersARMY
- Grilled ham-and-cheese sandwichCUBAN
- Amazon swimmersANACONDAS
- To be, in HavanaSER
- RowOAR
- ___ al-Fitr (feast occasion)EID
- Performs a gymnastics move requiring flexibility ? or enters answers into this puzzle’s four shaded partsDOESTHESPLITS
- Say rude things aboutDIS
- Was idleSAT
- TeaseRIB
- Aims forASPIRESTO
- Unisex fragrance launched in 1994CKONE
- Horseshoer’s targetHOOF
- Astronaut GrissomGUS
- In agonyPAINED
- One checking the booksAUDITOR
- ChuckHURL
- Certain ocean pollutionSLICK
- Old English, for better or worse?ETYMOLOGY
- Makeup of many birdfeed cakesSUET
- San Bernardino suburb whose name means “beautiful hill”LOMALINDA
- Authors’ submissions: Abbr.MSS
- Pines (for)YENS
- A-number-oneTOPS
Vertical Clues
- Playable character in an “artificial life” game franchiseSIM
- Hawaiian wood used to build the earliest surfboardsKOA
- TattoosINK
- Rest of the day?SIESTA
- Base hit result, maybeONEON
- Host’s requestRSVP
- StingerBEE
- Actress BullockSANDRA
- RegardingASTO
- The “O” of M.O.OPERANDI
- Unfounded rumorCANARD
- Actor John or SeanASTIN
- Matriarchal nicknameMOMMA
- Sunshine, so to speakRAYS
- Plant, as an idea, in sci-fi slangINCEPT
- Includes on a threadCCS
- Was sorry aboutRUED
- Longest river entirely within SpainEBRO
- States of upheavalUNRESTS
- “That’s the spot!”AAH
- Many a RembrandtOIL
- New York lake that’s the source of the Susquehanna RiverOTSEGO
- BuildingsEDIFICES
- BwanaSwahili :: ___
- Holy title with a tildeSAO
- 1982 sci-fi classic with a 2010 sequelTRON
- Kind of waveSINE
- Hospital unitBED
- Sounds of recognitionAHAS
- All ___ DaySOULS
- Stand that a speaker might takePODIUM
- To be certainSURELY
- Go a-wassailingCAROL
- Perform spectacularly, colloquiallyKILLIT
- Mountain lionsPUMAS
- Popular booth in New York’s Times SquareTKTS
- Song of celebrationHYMN
- Tic-tac finishTOE
- “Double Fantasy” singerONO
- Econ. indicatorGDP
- “___ queen!” (enthusiastic cry)YAS
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