NYT Crossword Answers 05/08/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Criticizes, in modern lingo HATESON
• 8A Unruffled ATEASE
• 14A “Not to worry …” THERENOW
• 16A Chichi SWANKY
• 17A One away from one’s duties? TAXEXILE
• 18A French exit SORTIE
• 19A Hollywood is on it: Abbr. PST
• 20A Secures, in a way MOORS
• 22A Flubs SLIPS
• 23A Create a crispy crust for, say PANSEAR
• 25A Coolers, for short ACS
• 26A “Jeez!” AWMAN
• 29A Touchy topic SORESPOT
• 31A One of two in Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna” CHERUB
• 33A Cartoonist who popularized the Democratic donkey NAST
• 34A “Bad hair day” hair MOP
• 36A Address no longer than 18 minutes TEDTALK
• 38A Prepares for company, maybe NEATENS
• 40A Networking assets INS
• 41A Second City district, with “the” LOOP
• 43A Plumbing and welding, e.g. TRADES
• 44A Really nasty fall? ICESTORM
• 47A Date unlikely to be on a calendar TRYST
• 48A Mammoth’s home, for short NHL
• 49A Where to go for a run SKIAREA
• 51A Peabody-winning journalist Steve KROFT
• 53A Many a Chilango SENOR
• 54A Formula 1 fig. KPH
• 57A “I’m this-a way!” YOOHOO
• 59A Great depression? SINKHOLE
• 61A “Would you look at the time?!” IMLATE
• 62A Scrumdiddlyumptious TODIEFOR
• 63A Like some interests and stocks VESTED
• 64A Feeds the kitty, say CATSITS

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D It’s usually followed by an “s” HTTP
• 2D Indicators of awareness AHAS
• 3D Ding thing? TEXT
• 4D Bygone “before” ERE
• 5D Books that go into intimate detail? SEXMANUALS
• 6D It might bring you to tears ONION
• 7D “Good riddance” NOLOSS
• 8D Jerk ASS
• 9D All slam dunks TWOS
• 10D Accessory turned down on a cap EARLAP
• 11D Humor without a traditional punch line ANTICOMEDY
• 12D Create ripple effects, in a way SKIPSTONES
• 13D Scallops can have hundreds of tiny blue ones EYES
• 15D “It’s a date!” WEREON
• 21D It’s a wrap! SARAN
• 23D Hairstylist’s concern PART
• 24D Go back to the beginning RESET
• 26D Whence the line “Beware the ides of March” in “Julius Caesar” ACTI
• 27D Comment from one who’s going along WHENINROME
• 28D Where to see fresh coats of white? MEDSCHOOLS
• 30D First gear? STARTERKIT
• 32D Rorschach patterns BLOTS
• 35D “I’m this-a way!” PSST
• 37D Goofballs KOOKS
• 39D ___ Theatre, Atlanta art house named for a fictional estate TARA
• 42D White-collar figure PRIEST
• 45D Pointy-topped red-and-green headwear ELFHAT
• 46D Tuber that’s the source of tapioca MANIOC
• 50D ___ Rousey, first American woman to win an Olympic medal in judo RONDA
• 51D National capital that’s home to Mykhailivska Square KYIV
• 52D Schlep TOTE
• 54D ___ Annan, former U.N. secretary general KOFI
• 55D Something that’s hatched PLOT
• 56D Half of some matching sets HERS
• 58D Work that traces the evolution of lang. over 1,000 years OED
• 60D “And ___ long gone when ___ next to me” (Taylor Swift lyric) HES