New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Grammy winner for 1983’s “Flashdance … What a Feeling” IRENECARA
Italian nickname that omits Al- FREDO
Causing a boom, maybe SUPERSONIC
SPOT REMOVER? DOGNAPPER
CLOSE NIGH
Unlikely match ODDCOUPLE
SOURCE ROOT
KEEN AVID
CLOSE SHUT
Its website has a “Fantasy” page ESPN
Up there, you might say OLD
Monster’s opposite TEENY
“99 Luftballons” singer NENA
Highway exit sign GAS
CHARADE ACT
PREFIX WITH DIRECTIONAL OMNI
Germans call it Genfersee LAKEGENEVA
COUSIN OF AN AARDWOLF HYENA
Solvers’ reactions AHAS
U.S. locale that, when said quickly, sounds like a cheer OAHU
Unable to perform operations INNUMERATE
Astronomer Thomas for whom a comet is named BOPP
Big name in fashion footwear ALDO
___-JONGG MAH
Word with happy or rush HOUR
DOCTRINES DOGMATA
___ NOCHE (TONIGHT: SP.) ESTA
PROPHETIC PRESCIENT
VELVET-VOICED MEL TORME
They’re rigged MASTS
Best Picture winner in 2022 CODA
Not yet delivered, after “in” UTERO
Like only one member of the Supreme Court in its history (Sonia Sotomayor) HISPANIC
WEISSHORN, E.G. ALP
San Francisco’s ___ Hill NOB
Catherine of “Schitt’s Creek” OHARA
Unit equal to 907.2 kilograms SHORTTON
Only one-word country that contains all five vowels MOZAMBIQUE
STOCK EXCHANGE? MOOS
High-chair features TRAYS
DIGITAL ALTERNATIVE PRINT
W.N.B.A. great Weatherspoon TERESA
Manet called him “the painter of painters” VELAZQUEZ
Vulnerable area SOFTTARGET
Candle holders, sometimes CAKES
CONTENDING INIT
KIND OF GARDEN ZEN
SPECIALIZATION NICHE
IMPROVISE ON STAGE RIFF
___ of Citium, philosopher who founded Stoicism ZENO
Board game set on an island CATAN
Underwater forest KELP
POLITICAL ___ ARENA
Lead-in to call ROBO
Sort who refuses to answer CLAM
Seek advancement through flattery CURRYFAVOR
“It ___ to me …” OCCURS
Status on a conservationist’s “Red List” THREATENED
SMALL FLAW NICK
Ambulatory aids CANES
Pokémon that ultimately evolves into Alakazam ABRA
Literature’s Napoleon, e.g. PIG
As seen in chemistry class? ARSENIC
BORDER ABUT
Non-coffee Starbucks order CHAI
Holds gingerly, maybe CUPS
___-term test for divergence (calculus concept) NTH
A sumo wrestler’s is called a mawashi LOINCLOTH
Highly exaggerated and subjective, as journalism GONZO
Browse, say SURFTHENET