New York Times, Sunday, May 24, 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

New York Times Puzzle, Sunday, May 24, 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Best. Day. ___!'	EVER
'Despicable Me' character	MINION
'Easy now ...'	STEADY
'Hungry' game characters	HIPPOS
'I like it!'	NICE
'That's ___'	AMORE
'The Deer Hunter' director Michael	CIMINO
'Time for a break'	TAKETEN
'Too busy'	CANT
'You caught me!,' says the thief, who then admits: 'The diamond isn't here in my room, but it's hidden in ___'	THEONETOTHEWESTOFHERE
A ways away	FAR
About three miles	LEAGUE
An antique might have one	PATINA
Anika ___ Rose, 2004 Tony winner	NONI
As you inspect each room, you find staff members dressed as ___	APTLYNAMEDCELEBRITIES
Badger	NAG
Battlefield cry	ATTACK
Big launch of 1957	SPUTNIK
Bristle of grain	AWN
Britain's Broadway	WESTEND
Brooklyn Coll. is part of it	CUNY
Burn slightly	SINGE
California-based auto company	TESLA
Campfire treat	SMORE
Chip dip, familiarly	GUAC
City near Monterey Bay	SALINAS
Clothes hanger?	TASSEL
Considered	SEENAS
Days of old	YORE
Delta competitor, in brief	UAL
Delta preceder	GAMMA
Diamond family name	ALOU
Elie Wiesel's homeland	ROMANIA
Enjoy deeply	REVELIN
Excoriates	REVILES
Fictional city inspired by New York City	GOTHAM
Flambé	AFIRE
Four-letter word for a four-letter word	OATH
Getaway for two lovebirds?	ARK
Goodwill	AMITY
Hard	STEELY
Hardy bean	FAVA
Have trouble swallowing	GAGON
Hershey toffee bar	SKOR
Home brewer	TEAPOT
Home of the original Busch Gardens	TAMPA
In the study, you find that the thief accidentally left behind an ___	APPLESWEATSHIRT
In ___ (stuck)	ARUT
Intestinal: Prefix	ENTERO
Ireland's best-selling solo artist	ENYA
It might be snowy	EGRET
It might get a licking: Abbr	ENV
Janitor's tool	WRINGER
Japanese box lunch	BENTO
Joined at an angle, as two pieces of wood	MITERED
Jr.'s junior	SOPH
Kilt feature	PLEAT
Kinda	ISH
Knowledgeable (in)	VERSED
Latches (onto)	GRABS
Leader whose name means, literally, 'commander'	AMIR
Like	AKINTO
Like a bad loser	SORE
Like a Debbie Downer	NOFUN
Like beloved books, often	REREAD
Lots	AHEAP
Low on dough	SHORT
Lowest of the eight major taxonomic ranks	SPECIES
Magazine audience fig	CIRC
Major source of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere	SEAWEED
Move off the bottle	WEAN
Music for the masses?	HYMN
Music to a hitchhiker's ears	HOPIN
Musical family with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame	OSMONDS
Oenology : wines :: zythology : ___	BEERS
Ordain	ANOINT
Org. in 'Die Hard'	LAPD
Pollen-producing plant part	STAMEN
Popeye's kid	SWEEPEA
Public spat	SCENE
Refusals	NOS
Rushing group, informally	FRAT
Russian pancakes	BLINI
Said a 96-Across	SWORE
Salon brand	AVEDA
Sauce put on falafel	TAHINI
Seeped (through}	OSMOSED
Showers	RAINS
Sly and the Family Stone genre	FUNK
Some appliances	AMANAS
Some knotted ropes	NOOSES
Some modern ones are smart	TVS
Some sports cars	GTS
Source of the robe material for Incan royalty	ALPACA
Space to maneuver a ship	SEAROOM
Spark	AROUSE
Spawn	BEGET
Springsteen's birthplace, in song	THEUSA
Sprint competitor	RACER
Spry	AGILE
Squash	STEPON
Stable diet?	OATS
Start of a Christmas refrain	FALA
Style for Edward Hopper and George Bellows	REALISM
Suffix with serpent	INE
Sunrise direction, in Seville	ESTE
Suspect #1	COLE
Suspect #2	GERARD
Suspect #3	TIM
Suspect #4	CHET
Suspect #5	MINNIE
Suspect #6	KAREN
Suspect #7	ELLEN
Suspect #8	TIKI
Swing and completely miss	FAN
Tech debut of 1998	IMAC
Tell	TATTLE
Teri with a 'Tootsie' role	GARR
The compass points	NSEW
They catch dust bunnies	DRYMOPS
They're all ___, so you can easily identify them	WEARINGNAMETAGS
Thomas who chaired the 9/11 Commission	KEAN
Thucydides had one	THETA
Tucson school, in brief	UOFA
Very, in Veracruz	MUY
Went with	CHOSE
What a Venn diagram shows	OVERLAP
What each person gets in an election	ONEVOTE
What it all adds up to	SUM
What might come with fencing?	SCAR
Woes	SORROWS
Women of honour	DAMES
Word that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward	ATE
___ fusion (type of cuisine)	ASIAN