New York Times - May 12 2018 Crossword Answer

New York Times - May 12 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Lead	HELM
Letter closing from one brother to another	FRATERNALLY
Like a virgin	CHASTE
Measure of military alertness	DEFCON
Nick, e.g	MAR
Not just passes	ACES
Pattern breaker	ANOMALY
Piled leaves	RAKED
Place of eternal happiness	AVALON
Profit chaser?	EER
Pull one's hair out?	TWEEZE
Pushover	SOFTIE
Recalls	LOOKSBACKON
Reddit V.I.P., for short	MOD
Response to a burn or a pun	OUCH
Riffraff	LOWLIFES
Say nasty things about	SLIME
See 17-Across	FOR
See 54-Across	MOTEL
Something the Netherlands has but Belgium doesn't?	CAPITALN
Take root	SETIN
The last pair you'll ever wear?	CEMENTSHOES
They may hold the solution	BEAKERS
Tied the knot	SAIDIDO
Title setting for Shakespeare	VERONA
What 'I' am, in a kid's song	TEAPOT
Where the magician hides the rabbit	FALSEBOTTOM
Who once described puritanism as 'the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'	MENCKEN
Window: Ger	FENSTER
With 18-Across, desires	LONGS
With 19-Across, spot for a tryst	NOTELL
Word before and after 'in'	ALL
___ Canals	SOO

Clues	Answers
'Balderdash!'	HORSEHOCKEY
'Ciao'	ADIOS
'Thirty days hath September ...,' e.g	MNEMONIC
'Too bad!'	TOUGH
About 71% of la Tierra	OCEANO
Attained	GOT
Beat someone?	KEROUAC
Bibliography abbr	ETAL
Bobby who co-founded the Black Panthers	SEALE
Brazilian city at the mouth of the Amazon	BELEM
Brought (out)	TROTTED
Bummed	SAD
Certain religious proselytizer, informally	MOONIE
Co-star of the 'Thin Man' films	LOY
Common ___	CORE
Container that's almost always red	GASCAN
Contents of une fontaine	EAU
Cooking title	IRONCHEF
Despot exiled in 1979	AMIN
Dismissive turndown	NAH
Embarrassments for news agencies	RETRACTIONS
Eve who wrote 'The Vagina Monologues'	ENSLER
Event with fiddling	HOEDOWN
Faux gold	OROIDE
Girth	SIZE
Here and there	AROUND
How shy people may stand	ALOOF
Husky relatives	AKITAS
Idiots	CLODS
Image on every carton of Ben & Jerry's ice cream	COW
Invisible	UNSEEN
Jack ___	FROST
Jamaica's St. ___ Bay	ANNS