NYT Crossword Answers 05/19/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A What you eat DIET
• 5A Campfire confection SMORE
• 10A Mama ___ of the Mamas & the Papas CASS
• 14A Clearasil target ACNE
• 15A Hawkeye IOWAN
• 16A Sound of a horse’s hoof CLOP
• 17A Standard musical progression PENTATONICSCALE
• 20A Dry and withered SERE
• 21A “Dinner’s ready!” SOUPSON
• 22A High court judge? CHAIRUMPIRE
• 26A Joke (around) KID
• 27A Whale groups PODS
• 28A Michael of “The Man Who Would Be King” CAINE
• 29A Joint thing in the Venn diagram of “instruments” and “fish” BASS
• 30A “That’s so sweet!” reactions AWS
• 31A Semaphore device FLAG
• 32A Patty or Selma, to Bart Simpson AUNT
• 33A Basketball or baseball, but not boxing TEAMSPORT
• 36A Frozen dessert franchise TCBY
• 38A New Zealander KIWI
• 39A Denali, e.g.: Abbr. MTN
• 42A Heads of Hogwarts? LOOS
• 43A Spry AGILE
• 45A Free-spirited aesthetic BOHO
• 46A “Ick!” EWW
• 47A Matching pair on many jets TWINENGINES
• 49A Massachusetts locale of Manchester-by-the-Sea CAPEANN
• 51A “Yikes!” EGAD
• 52A Requirement at some comedy clubs ? or for 17-, 22-, 33- and 47-Across? TWODRINKMINIMUM
• 57A Like a gut course EASY
• 58A African country that’s another African country minus its final two letters NIGER
• 59A Generic canine name FIDO
• 60A Breads for Reuben sandwiches RYES
• 61A “Beau ___” GESTE
• 62A Leak slowly SEEP

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Fist bump DAP
• 2D Skating exhibition ICESHOW
• 3D Groups of nine ENNEADS
• 4D Classic falling-block game TETRIS
• 5D Basic dog command SIT
• 6D It’s heard in a herd MOO
• 7D ___ goal (soccer blunder) OWN
• 8D Gorp tidbit RAISIN
• 9D Number added at the end? ENCORE
• 10D Cyrillic version of “U.S.S.R.” CCCP
• 11D From Nome or Juneau ALASKAN
• 12D Lone star? SOLOIST
• 13D Drops some cash SPENDS
• 18D ___ Lingus AER
• 19D Bird of the W.N.B.A. SUE
• 22D Return sender, maybe, in brief CPA
• 23D Sch. whose campus is just off Interstate 405 UCLA
• 24D Sir’s counterpart MAAM
• 25D Football, informally PIGSKIN
• 29D Slowly ___ surely BUT
• 31D Tina who hosted the debut of “Saturday Night Live UK” FEY
• 32D “Entourage” agent Gold ARI
• 33D Atlanta-based network TBS
• 34D Leaves together? PILE
• 35D Actor Wilson OWEN
• 36D ___ zone (no-parking area) TOWAWAY
• 37D Yoga stance on all fours COWPOSE
• 39D Term of friendship for a French woman MONAMIE
• 40D Nickname for Jeffrey Lebowski in “The Big Lebowski” THEDUDE
• 41D Those opposed NOS
• 42D Villain in “The Silence of the Lambs” LECTER
• 43D Cafe canopy AWNING
• 44D Companion to Fannie and Freddie in the mortgage biz GINNIE
• 45D Major unknowns BIGIFS
• 47D Sailor, informally TAR
• 48D ___ Z (Zoomers) GEN
• 50D “Grand” ice cream brand EDYS
• 53D Units in a tonne: Abbr. KGS
• 54D Was introduced to MET
• 55D Wrath IRE
• 56D Swiffer WetJet, e.g. MOP