New York Times - May 31, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solution - May 31, 2015

Clues	Answers
'Awe-SOME!'	SUHWEET
'I expected as much'	ITSNOWONDER
'It was just a joke!'	RELAX
'm' and 'n'	NASALS
'The Downeaster '___'' (Billy Joel song)	ALEXA
'There is ___ in team'	NOI
'___ even'	WERE
66, e.g.: Abbr	RTE
An example of itself	NOUN
Anti-Revolutionary of 1776	TORY
Apple desktop	IMAC
Artifact	RELIC
Attraction that operates under its own steam?	LDFAITHFUL
Authorization	SAYSO
Bagel topper	NOVA
Bank to rely on	LEVEE
Barely manage	EKEBY
Bests	DEFEATS
Big name in current research?	OHM
Blind parts	SLATS
Boarded	GOTON
Bottom-row key	ALT
Breakfast cereal maker	KASHI
Bring home the gold	WINIT
Bring, as to a repair shop	TOWIN
Buddy	HOMIE
Capacious	ROOMY
Capital city founded during a gold rush	HELENA
Capt. Kangaroo's network	CBS
Catcher of some waves	ADIOANTENNA
Champagne holder	FLUTE
Choco ___ (Klondike treat)	TACO
Chocolate mint brand with peaks in its logo	ANDES
Coin to pay for passage across the River Styx	OBOL
Collapsed, with 'in'	CAVED
Condemned	DECRIED
Condition of sale	ASIS
Cooking spray brand	PAM
Crisp bit in a stir-fry	EANSPROUT
Currency which, in one denomination, features a portrait of Linnaeus	KRONA
Daughter of Hyperion	EOS
Dietary no-no	TRANSFAT
Distraction for many an idle person	SMARTPHONE
Dog sound	ARF
Dog sounds	YIPS
Dumbfound	STUN
Eagerly accept	LAPUP
Easy-peasy task	SNAP
Ends of letters	SERIFS
Equal: Prefix	ISO
Expunge	RID
Factions	SECTS
Fanatical	RABID
Fiction	LIE
Fodder for tabloids	RUMORS
Former part of the British Empire	INDIA
Further	AND
Garment for tennis, perhaps	SKORT
Gets harsher	HOARSENS
Gone	VANISHED
Grey and ochre	COLOURS
Hair piece	TRESS
Hand source	DECK
Handled roughly	PAWEDAT
Havana-to-Palm Beach dir	NNE
Hematophagous creature	VAMPIREBA
Highway number	EXIT
Hip-hop's Mos ___	DEF
Hockey team with a patriotic name	MAPLELEAFS
Hula hoop?	LEI

Clues	Answers
Hyphenated fig	SSN
It might contain a list of postal abbreviations	DROPDOWNMEN
Items that may be labeled SMTWTFS	PILLS
Japanese for 'teacher'	SENSEI
Joe Biden's home: Abbr	DEL
June honorees	PAPAS
Kurt Vonnegut's 'Happy Birthday, ___ June'	WANDA
Lacto-___ vegetarian	OVO
Letters of obligation	IOU
Little bugger	GNAT
Mai ___	TAI
Major stockholder?	RANCHER
Malt product	ALE
Mariana, e.g	OCEANTRENC
Message to one's followers	TWEET
Muscles worked by leg presses	QUADS
National Novel Writing Mo	NOV
Nav. rank	ENS
Not as exciting	TAMER
Not in the dark	LIT
Occurring in March and September, say	SEMIANNUAL
Old White House moniker	IKE
One of 24 in a glucose molecule	ATOM
Park opened in 1964	SEAWORLD
Parts, as blinds	DRAWS
Pass	ENACT
Peak that's known as 'The Great One'	OUNTMCKINLEY
Perfect orbit	CIRCLE
Pleasant inflection	LILT
Point of writing?	NIB
Portrayer of 86-Across in 'Elf'	ASNER
Pouting expression	MOUE
Prepare to tie a shoelace, say	KNEEL
Privy to	INON
Pro ___	RATA
Put another way	REWORD
Rakes	ROUES
Rare notes	TWOS
Redolence	AROMA
Return from a store	PROFIT
Run ___	AMOK
School	TEACH
Seafood soup base	HARKFIN
Seasonal linguine topper	MOREL
See 92-Across	STNICK
Series of numbers?	ALBUM
Series opener	PILOT
Shake-ups in corps	REORGS
Shenanigans	TOMFOOLERY
Sleep mode?	HIBERNATION
Small change	TWEAK
Soaks (up)	SOPS
Somebody ___	ELSES
Something you might get a kick out of?	KARATE
Staple of quiz bowls	TIMER
Steven Wright's 'I intend to live forever. So far, so good,' e.g	QUIP
Strewn	CAST
String after B	CDE
Temperature units	KELVINS
Thoroughfare	ROAD
Towering	LOFTY
TV's 'The ___ Today'	NFL
Unit usually seen with the prefix deci-	BEL
Variety of antelope	ORYX
What's superior to Lake Superior: Abbr	ONT
When blacksmithing began	IRONAGE
Where writing is on the wall?	TOMB
Wise ones	SOLONS
Words below an orange on a license plate	SUNSHINESTAT
___ a one	NARY