Clues Answers ___ box (lunch option) BENTO A handful SOME Adventure-seeking travelers, in old usage ERRANTS Affectedly creative ARTY Aid for a novice guitarist TAB Animal farm facility FEEDLOT At some point ONCE Atop UPON Beauty that runs in the family? KINESTHETIC Becomes unduly prominent OBTRUDES Beginner’s edition? INTROVERSION Beverage that can be served hinata-kan […]

Across 1 Merry air : LILT 5 Groups of whales : GAMS 9 “Exactly!” : BINGO 14 Name meaning “long-lived” in Arabic : OMAR 15 Replacer of some names : ETAL 16 Theme for a troubadour : AMOUR 17 “That would change everything,” in internet lingo : BIGIFTRUE 19 Many an emoticon : SMILE 20 To an extreme : ONSTEROIDS 22 World capital located […]

Across 1 Staples of horror movies : JUMPSCARES 11 Commoner : PLEB 15 Pest so named because it was originally found in royal tombs : PHARAOHANT 16 Rocker Grohl : DAVE 17 Join a boxer rebellion? : GOCOMMANDO 18 Spot : AREA 19 1967 song by the Monkees : SHE 20 Learning opportunity, so to speak : MISTAKE 22 Game from Africa : GNU […]

Across 1 What Do You ___? (popular modern party game) : MEME 5 Kind of ray : GAMMA 10 Who says “Play it, Sam” in “Casablanca” : ILSA 14 Pink-slipped : AXED 15 Deafening : AROAR 16 Beef that’s aged? : FEUD 17 Form of racing that requires one foot on the ground at all times : SPEEDWALKING 19 Satirist Mort : SAHL […]

Across 1 Many a rescue : MUTT 5 Bit of wisdom : PEARL 10 Playful sound while tapping someone’s nose : BOOP 14 Brainchild : IDEA 15 Buildup of tanks? : ALGAE 16 Atmospheric glow : AURA 17 Barrel of monkeys : DONKEYKONG 19 Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world’s flags : STAR 20 Catalog : INDEX 21 Person you might see […]

Across 1 What butchers trim away : FAT 4 Woman: Fr. : FEMME 9 Leaves at the library? : PAGES 14 “Telephone Line” band, to fans : ELO 15 Letter-shaped train track beam : IRAIL 16 ___ 16 : SWEET 17 Nada : ZIP 18 Rapper Minaj : NICKI 19 Intense suffering : AGONY 20 Process of picking winners in 51-Across : BRACKETOLOGY 23 Communication […]

Clues Answers ‘Better late than never,’ for one ADAGE ‘Let’s do this thing!’ ITSON ‘Me neither’ NORI ‘The Persistence of Memory’ painter DALI ‘Yeah, that’s the spot!’ AAH ‘___ is a lie that makes us realize truth’: Picasso ART ‘___ Karenina’ ANNA ‘___ Meenie,’ 2010 hit by Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber EENIE Accomplished the […]

Clues Answers ’99 Luftballons’ singer NENA ‘Am I oversharing?’ TMI ‘Am I understood?’ YHEAR ‘Bloody’ English monarch MARYI ‘Consequently …’ ANDSO ‘Don’t Matter’ singer, 2007 AKON ‘Fiddlesticks!’ BLASTIT ‘Go me!’ IRULE ‘Go, ___!’ TEAM ‘Gotcha’ ISEE ‘Pleeease?’ CANTI ‘Sportsman of the Century,’ per Sports Illustrated ALI ‘Washboard’ features ABS 2012 Seth MacFarlane film with a […]

Clues Answers ‘Bummer!’ WHATADOWNER ‘Hold up …’ HANGONASEC ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan portrayer SWIT ‘Sweet!’ COOLIO ‘Why ___?’ BOTHER Accommodated, in a way HOUSED Air-purifying device IONIZER Apt anagram of ‘I sew a hole’ ELIASHOWE Asia’s ___ Sea ARAL Attention-getter, maybe GIMMICK Author of the influential 1950 paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ TURING Bit of dark […]

Across 1 Protagonist’s pride, often : TRAGICFLAW 11 Rather : ABIT 15 “Man, oh, man!” : HOLYTOLEDO 16 Pantsless Disney character : POOH 17 Skedaddle unexpectedly : UPANDLEAVE 18 It has a higher population of pigs than people : IOWA 19 Beginning of a large amount of work : DENT 20 “___ Vidi Vicious” (critically acclaimed 2000 album by the Hives) : VENI […]