Author: Larry Snyder
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
Formal affirmative YESMAAM
Home of the prehistoric Ggantija temples MALTA
Absolute drivel UTTERROT
Longtime TV news colleague of Pelley, Cooper and Whitaker STAHL
Queso, e.g. CHEESEDIP
Prestigious award established after its founder purportedly read his premature obituary NOBEL
One in a hundred CENT
Whoops, e.g. YELLS
Whence the phoenix PYRE
Queer identity whose flag is green, white, gray and black, for short ARO
Wrote an exposé, say TOLDALL
Unreliable news source RAG
It has high-end tastes HAUTECUISINE
Isn’t finalized PENDS
One of more than 300 for “S.N.L.” EMMYNOD
“Sonnets to Orpheus” poet RILKE
Predispositions BENTS
Something unoriginal REPLICA
Drain away LEACH
Had to recant ATEONESWORDS
Sign of a sellout SRO
What you might get at the gym INSHAPE
Network for 15-Across CBS
“Dear ___” SIRS
Singer Marie TEENA
Singer Michaels BRET
For real LEGIT
Stealing from the collection plate, for example SACRILEGE
Outmaneuver, in a way EVADE
Covered in ink TATTEDUP
Fleming who was the first opera singer to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl (2014) RENEE
They resemble boas PYTHONS
Down
State flower of New Mexico YUCCA
Early number? ETHER
Device used by a court reporter, informally STENO
Word with swim or swap MEET
___ nova ARS
Question asked outside a bedroom AREYOUDECENT
Tin lizzies MODELTS
AOL competitor MSN
On ATOP
Windy location of myth? LABYRINTH
Defunct health technology company that once had a $10 billion valuation THERANOS
So-called ALLEGED
Baño feature TILDE
Identify PLACE
Occasion when one might choose truth SLUMBERPARTY
Swimsuit portmanteau TANKINI
Greenish drink LIMEADE
“Is anybody home …?” HELLO
Matches, as watches SYNCS
Instrument that includes ranks and divisions PIPEORGAN
Get back RETRIEVE
One who grapples, in dialect RASSLER
Tuchuses ASSES
Borrower’s limit LOANCAP
Major export of Ukraine WHEAT
Liturgical chant CREDO
Kicked off BEGUN
Flight components STEPS
Team SIDE
“Ugh!” BLEH
Beethoven’s fourth? TEE
Ignatius ___, figure on Netflix’s “Wednesday” ITT
