New York Times Crossword Answers – Tuesday May 16 2017

Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday May 16 2017
[You crack me up] – LOL
___ it ironic? – ISNT
___-relief – BAS
1920s car – REO
A Bobbsey twin – NAN
Affected manner – AIRS
Aid for administering an oath of office – BIBLE
Ballet step – PAS
Big inits. in the aerospace industry – ITT
CALIFORNIA + N = Majestic beast – AFRICANLION
Celeste Aida, e.g. – ARIA
Charge for a plug? – ADFEE
Chicago squad in old “S.N.L.” skits – DABEARS
Complete block – BAN
Curious George books, e.g. – KIDLIT
Divergent actor James – THEO
English johns – LOOS
Evelyn Waugh’s writer brother – ALEC
Famous Tokyo-born singer – ONO
Finished! – ALLDONE
Fleeces – CONS
Fusions – BLENDS
Futures analyst? – ORACLE
Gave an exam – TESTED
Get dog-tired – POOPOUT
Got some sun – TANNED
Honor with insults – ROAST
Hunter’s freezerful, maybe – VENISON
Imps are little ones – DEVILS
Infantile – BABYISH
Interpret – READ
Laborious task – SLOG
Marching well – INSTEP
Martin who wrote “London Fields” – AMIS
MARYLAND + O = Period in which nothing special happens – NORMALDAY
MISSOURI + E = “No fooling!” – IMSERIOUS
Mule’s father – ASS
Muslim leader – IMAM
NEBRASKA + T = Mortgage specifications – BANKRATES
Neither here nor there? – ENROUTE
Nod from offstage, maybe – CUE
One-in-a-million event – MIRACLE
Option words – ORS
Outer protein shell of a virus – CAPSID
Parodied – SENTUP
Passes by – ELAPSES
Phishing target: Abbr. – SSN
Phishing targets, briefly – IDS
Places where oysters are served – RAWBARS
Prepares to shoot near the basket, say – POSTSUP
Prince William’s mom – LADYDI
Professional headgear that’s stereotypically red – FIREHAT
Put off – DETER
Rears of ships – STERNS
Rode the bench – SAT
S. Amer. home of the tango – ARG
Sacagawea dollar, e.g. – COIN
Salad green – KALE
Scatterbrained – DITSY
Segment of a binge-watch – EPISODE
Shaving mishaps – NICKS
Short dance wear – TUTU
Smoked marijuana – USEDPOT
SoCal force – LAPD
Straight downhill run on skis – SCHUSS
Understood, dude – IDIG
Verve – PEP
Victim of river diversion in Asia – ARALSEA
View, as the future – SEEINTO
WASHINGTON + R = Intimidation tactic – WARNINGSHOT
Whole slew – RAFT
Whopper inventor – LIAR
Word repeated in “Ring Around the Rosy” before “We all fall down” – ASHES
You win, alternatively – ILOSE