NYT Crossword Answers - Saturday 05/18/24

The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Saturday May 18, 2024 is displayed below.

ACROSS

1. Where you might shop for the sheer fun of it?	VICTORIASSECRET
16. “No more fooling around!”	IMEANITTHISTIME
17. Reprimand	CALLONTHECARPET
18. Singer Brendon who fronted Panic! at the Disco	URIE
19. Go after	SEEK
20. Start of a 1950s political slogan	ILIKE
21. Only U.S. state with a unicameral legislature: Abbr.	NEB
22. Wasn’t upstanding	LEANED
24. Grps. that rarely meet in the summer	PTAS
25. Where Steve Jobs first worked after college	ATARI
27. 76% of U.S. governors in 2024, a record low	MALES
29. Laughs (at)	SCOFFS
31. Prepare to cook sous vide, perhaps	SEAL
33. Many a character in the 2018 animated film “Smallfoot”	YETI
34. Make toast?	RUIN
36. [Uh-oh]	GULP
38. Unlikely socializer	HERMIT
40. Like some Scotch	PEATY
42. Official administrations	OATHS
44. Colorful celebration of spring	HOLI
48. Fall over	TRIPON
50. Shill for, informally	REP
51. Goes first	OPENS
53. Was selected to face, as in a tournament	DREW
54. Hotel room amenity	ROBE
55. Andre Agassi, e.g.	IRANIANAMERICAN
58. A wedding couple might be seen on one	SAVETHEDATECARD
59. “I’m speechless”	THEREARENOWORDS

ACROSS Clues from Saturday 05/18/24

1. Its wool is the world’s rarest natural fiber	VICUNA
2. Turkish inns	IMARETS
3. Nun’s habit?	CELIBACY
4. Related thing	TALE
5. “The world’s most famous unknown artist,” per Lennon	ONO
6. Use a finger bowl	RINSE
7. PC support squads	ITTEAMS
8. A nearly 40-foot-tall statue of her once stood within the Parthenon	ATHENA
9. Biblical coins	SHEKELS
10. Proofreading disclaimer	SIC
11. Morales of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise	ESAI
12. Printing shortcut	CTRLP
13. Hit the heck out of the ball	RIPIT
14. ___ Okafor, 2004-05 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year	EMEKA
15. Spots for bérets	TETES
22. Exalt	LIFTUP
23. Blacksmith-turned-agricultural magnate of the 19th century	DEERE
26. “The Man Who Fell to Earth” director, 1976	ROEG
28. “The Lord of the Rings” antagonist	SAURON
30. Chophouse choice	FILET
32. Largest city on the Pacific coast of the Americas	LIMA
35. Certain drag racer	NITROCAR
37. Cowpoke’s friend	PARDNER
38. Crowd energizer at a hip-hop concert	HYPEMAN
39. Sobriquet behind 154 sonnets	THEBARD
41. Cross state lines?	TIRADE
43. Disburses	SPENDS
44. Raise	HOIST
45. Portrayer of Mrs. Which in 2018’s “A Wrinkle in Time”	OPRAH
46. Time out	LEAVE
47. ___ beauty	INNER
49. Have because of	OWETO
52. One might display a menu	SITE
54. Spanish opposite of “pobre”	RICO
56. “So you confess!”	AHA
57. Remote button: Abbr.	REW

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