May 14, 2009 NYT Clues Answers

NYT Crossword and Answers - May 14, 2009

Welcome to NYT Puzzle and answers. The New York Times Crossword is a most popular puzzles. Here are the clues and answers for today puzzle:

Across:

• 1. Shindigs: PARTIES
• 8. Elf costume add-ons, maybe: EARTIPS
• 15. Overwhelmingly: INAROMP
• 16. Property receiver: ALIENEE
• 17. Vitamin A: RETINOL
• 18. Game with four jokers: CANASTA
• 19. Qty.: AMT
• 20. Like loot, often: STASHED
• 22. Caste member: ANT
• 23. Spilled the beans: TOLD
• 25. Abbr. often repeated redundantly: ETC
• 26. Detection device: SONAR
• 28. Monterrey month: ENERO
• 30. Big truck: RIG
• 33. Big truck: SEMI
• 34. Asian goatlike animal: SEROW
• 35. Official gemstone of Alaska: JADE
• 36. ___ school: PREP
• 37. See 21-Down: PERIMETER
• 40. Latin lesson word: AMAS
• 43. "___ Gold," 1992 album that has sold 28 million copies worldwide: ABBA
• 44. Preceded, with "to": LEDUP
• 48. Apple, e.g.: POME
• 49. Set: GEL
• 50. Loy of old Hollywood: MYRNA
• 51. Weak ones: RUNTS
• 53. Self-esteem: EGO
• 56. End of many company names: SONS
• 57. Cork's home: Abbr.: IRE
• 58. Unchanged: THESAME
• 62. Boxer's handler?: VET
• 63. Made safe: ENSURED
• 65. Composer Antonio: SALIERI
• 67. Sequestering, legally speaking: SEIZING
• 68. Cowardly: UNBRAVE
• 69. Trudge: TRAIPSE
• 70. Foreign currency unit: PIASTER

Down:

• 1. 1979 World Series champs: PIRATES
• 2. Literally, "daughter of the wind": ANEMONE
• 3. Mojave Desert sight: RATTLER
• 4. Prefix on many chemical compound names: TRI
• 5. Plus and minus items: IONS
• 6. Make a big scene?: EMOTE
• 7. Comic book sound: SPLAT
• 8. A pop: EACH
• 9. Wings, zoologically: ALAE
• 10. Orange coats: RINDS
• 11. Leaves with a caddy?: TEA
• 12. More cracked: INSANER
• 13. Sweets, e.g.: PETNAME
• 14. Cruise, say: SEATRIP
• 21. What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other: SCRAMBLES
• 24. Weight training unit: DROPSET
• 27. Fish-eating raptors: OSPREYS
• 29. "You ___ me!": OWE
• 31. Head light?: IDEA
• 32. Pick up: GET
• 35. Be in sync: JIBE
• 38. Not the most authoritative journalism source: RAG
• 39. Slippery ___: ELM
• 40. "The one-l lama," to Ogden Nash: APRIEST
• 41. Funeral attendee: MOURNER
• 42. Result of butting heads?: AMNESIA
• 45. Intended to convey: DROVEAT
• 46. Upset: UNNERVE
• 47. More sallow: PASTIER
• 52. Word with club or mine: STRIP
• 54. Fill the tank: GASUP
• 55. Rial spender: OMANI
• 59. Layers: HENS
• 60. Sharpness: EDGE
• 61. Island in the Arcipelago Toscano: ELBA
• 64. Weapon first designed in 1950: UZI
• 66. Destination of many filings, for short: IRS