New York Times puzzle clues 2026 May 16

• 7 up, perhaps Crossword Clue
• Aid in making salsa Crossword Clue
• Bird on the South Carolina state quarter Crossword Clue
• Blight Crossword Clue
• Borderline Crossword Clue
• ___ Brickowski ("The Lego Movie" protagonist) Crossword Clue
• Buckled Crossword Clue
• Capital of Greenland Crossword Clue
• Capote or chesterfield Crossword Clue
• Cattle call Crossword Clue
• Certain volleyballer Crossword Clue
• Chilly and damp Crossword Clue
• Cold-smoked lox Crossword Clue
• Combo meal upgrade Crossword Clue
• Cup holders Crossword Clue
• Curtain for silhouetting on stage Crossword Clue
• Cut out Crossword Clue
• Cynthia ___, Tony winner for "The Color Purple" Crossword Clue
• Deck Crossword Clue
• Difficult effort Crossword Clue
• Don't start with me! Crossword Clue
• Double-___ cassowary (bird of Indonesia and Australia) Crossword Clue
• Echolocation systems Crossword Clue
• Element between copper and gallium on the periodic table Crossword Clue
• Emulates E.T., in a way Crossword Clue
• Extend, in a way Crossword Clue
• Folks who enjoy a well-aged beef? Crossword Clue
• Gasoline brand that offered the Torch Club credit card Crossword Clue
• Getting a break on Broadway? Crossword Clue
• Going back ages Crossword Clue
• Gulf of ___, waters that abut Djibouti and Somaliland Crossword Clue
• Many a Porsche 911 Crossword Clue
• Marriott property with the slogan "Whatever Whenever" Crossword Clue
• Matches with forensics Crossword Clue
• Medleys Crossword Clue
• Modern "go-to's" Crossword Clue
• Name shared by the singer of the #1 hit "Rock Me Gently" (1974) and the first Korean American elected to the U.S. Senate (2024) Crossword Clue
• "No closer!" Crossword Clue
• "___ noticed" Crossword Clue
• Obama's third secretary of defense (2013-15) Crossword Clue
• Occasions to relax and recharge Crossword Clue
• Once-popular terra-cotta figurine Crossword Clue
• Operculum, e.g. Crossword Clue
• Pharyngeal woe Crossword Clue
• Practical types who are often perfectionists, it's said Crossword Clue
• Precious self-reference Crossword Clue
• Roman goddess who drives a two-horse chariot Crossword Clue
• Romp Crossword Clue
• Setting for Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" Crossword Clue
• Spa service, in brief Crossword Clue
• Spelling combinations? Crossword Clue
• Spouts Crossword Clue
• State in which Gulliver is discovered by the Lilliputians Crossword Clue
• Takes off Crossword Clue
• They're concerned with feeding kits Crossword Clue
• They're hard to pull off Crossword Clue
• ___ track Crossword Clue
• Trickles Crossword Clue
• Trigger hair Crossword Clue
• Triumphs smoothly Crossword Clue
• Up to snuff, facetiously Crossword Clue
• Vanilla units Crossword Clue
• Victor over Washington on 11/12/1955 in "Back to the Future, Pt. II" - and in real life Crossword Clue
• Went wide or long, as a tennis ball Crossword Clue
• "What this country ___ …" Crossword Clue
• Wind pipe? Crossword Clue