New York Times - May 17 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solutions - May 17 2017 Wednesday

Clues	Answers
... arcade / Knocked ...	OVERSEEING
... component / Dreaded words in a video ...	BOARDGAME
... declaration / Critical computer ...	CLOSEDCIRCUIT
... for a loop, say / Area that an N.B.A. team has eight ...	DOUBLEBACK
... seconds to clear / Successful detective's ...	COURTCASE
___ wave (oscilloscope output)	SINE
1Tributary of the Colorado	GILA
Adorn with raised designs	EMBOSS
Alternative to Thrifty or Dollar	AVIS
Angsty music genre	EMO
Apply sloppily	DAUB
Asians who play elephant polo	THAIS
Baby Got Back Grammy winner Sir ___	MIXALOT
Be litigious	SUE
Beatle who sang "Octopus's Garden"	STARR
Cotton planter's headache	WEEVIL
Crooks' patterns, to cops	MOS
Dead Sea Scrolls writer	ESSENE
Did in, as a dragon	SLEW
Dory propeller	OAR
Drive-up convenience	ATM
Eat, eat, eat, with "out"	PIG
Fig. on a W-9	SSN
Fireside chats monogram	FDR
For grades K-12	ELHI
Gives the slip to	EVADES
Good-to-go signals	OKS
Grid org. with a 110-yard field	CFL
Hand-wringer's emotion	WOE
Hello, Dolly! singer, informally	SATCHMO
Helped oneself to	TOOK
Hemsworth of "The Hunger Games"	LIAM
Hmm, how shall ___ this?	IPUT
Home to Henry VIII's Catherine	ARAGON
Horsefeathers!	TOMMYROT
Hosiery shades	ECRUS
How confident solvers may solve	INPEN
Ich bin ___ Berliner	EIN
Invites for tea, say	ASKSIN
John's running mate in 2008	SARAH
Kind of dancer	EXOTIC
Laughing gas and rust, for two	OXIDES
Levy on polluters, e.g.	ECOTAX
Like light beers	WATERY
Like soap operas	EPISODIC
Like some international exchanges	CULTURAL
Marinade alternative	RUB
Merino mother	EWE
Moore of "G.I. Jane"	DEMI
Muff	ERR
Muscles worked by bench presses	PECS
Nicknames for 41-Acrosses	SADIES
Noob	TYRO
Obsolete repro machine	MIMEO
Oklahoma tribe	PAWNEE
One-upped	BESTED
Passage off Gibraltar, e.g.	STRAIT
Pesticide banned in the '70s	DDT
Play about Capote	TRU
Prank-pulling sort	IMP
Queen of the Greek gods	HERA
Results of sacrifices	OUTS
Roger that	IHEARYOU
Ruling family of old Florence	MEDICI
S.N.L. alum Cheri	OTERI
Scatter, as seeds	STREW
Soccer superstar Lionel	MESSI
Something to kick, maybe	HABIT
Succeed in annoying	GETTO
Thing to practice percussion on	DRUMPAD
Transport de Montreal :	METRO
Utensils for making hash browns	RICERS
Website for D.I.Y.ers	EHOW
World capital on the 60th parallel	OSLO