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NYT Crossword Answers- ACROSS Clue with Solution- May 16, 2026

• 1A – Modern “go-to’s”: URLS
• 5A – Curtain for silhouetting on stage: SCRIM
• 10A – Bird on the South Carolina state quarter: WREN
• 14A – Capote or chesterfield: COAT
• 15A – Emulates E.T., in a way: PHONESHOME
• 17A – Roman goddess who drives a two-horse chariot: LUNA
• 18A – Precious self-reference: LITTLEOLME
• 19A – Name shared by the singer of the #1 hit “Rock Me Gently” (1974) and the first Korean American elected to the U.S. Senate (2024): ANDYKIM
• 21A – Double-___ cassowary (bird of Indonesia and Australia): WATTLED
• 22A – Matches with forensics: DEBATECONTESTS
• 24A – Occasions to relax and recharge: MEDAYS
• 25A – Obama’s third secretary of defense (2013-15): HAGEL
• 26A – Gasoline brand that offered the Torch Club credit card: AMOCO
• 27A – Aid in making salsa: DICER
• 28A – Operculum, e.g.: LID
• 31A – Capital of Greenland: NUUK
• 32A – They’re hard to pull off: FEATS
• 33A – Spa service, in brief: MANI
• 34A – Up to snuff, facetiously: EPT
• 35A – Trickles: SEEPS
• 36A – Cup holders: ZARFS
• 37A – Many a Porsche 911: COUPE
• 38A – Practical types who are often perfectionists, it’s said: VIRGOS
• 39A – “Don’t start with me”: SECONDSTRINGER
• 43A – Difficult effort: TRAVAIL
• 44A – Cut out: EXCISED
• 46A – Setting for Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”: RIVERSEINE
• 48A – Cold-smoked lox: NOVA
• 49A – 7 up, perhaps: EVENSTEVEN
• 50A – Gulf of ___, waters that abut Djibouti and Somaliland: ADEN
• 51A – Vanilla units: PODS
• 52A – Spouts: SPEWS
• 53A – Romp: LARK

NYT Crossword Answers- VERTICAL Clues with Solution- May 16, 2026

• 1D – Victor over Washington on 11/12/1955 in “Back to the Future, Pt. II” – and in real life: UCLA
• 2D – Cattle call: ROUNDEMUP
• 3D – Went wide or long, as a tennis ball: LANDEDOUT
• 4D – “No closer!”: STAYBACK
• 5D – Takes off: SPLITS
• 6D – Wind pipe?: CHIME
• 7D – Blight: ROT
• 8D – Getting a break on Broadway?: INTWOACTS
• 9D – Medleys: MELANGES
• 10D – Marriott property with the slogan “Whatever Whenever”: WHOTEL
• 11D – Triumphs smoothly: ROLLS
• 12D – ___ Brickowski (“The Lego Movie” protagonist): EMMET
• 13D – “What this country ___ …”: NEEDS
• 16D – Certain volleyballer: SETTER
• 20D – Deck: KAYO
• 23D – Once-popular terra-cotta figurine: CHIAPET
• 24D – Trigger hair: MANE
• 27D – State in which Gulliver is discovered by the Lilliputians: DEEPSLEEP
• 28D – Combo meal upgrade: LARGESODA
• 29D – Going back ages: INFOREVER
• 30D – ___ track: DISS
• 32D – Folks who enjoy a well-aged beef?: FEUDISTS
• 33D – Borderline: MARGINAL
• 35D – Echolocation systems: SONARS
• 36D – Element between copper and gallium on the periodic table: ZINC
• 37D – Spelling combinations?: COVENS
• 38D – They’re concerned with feeding kits: VIXENS
• 39D – Pharyngeal woe: STREP
• 40D – Cynthia ___, Tony winner for “The Color Purple”: ERIVO
• 41D – Buckled: CAVED
• 42D – Extend in a way: RENEW
• 45D – Chilly and damp: DANK
• 47D – “___ noticed”: IVE

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