Newsday Crossword May 16, 2026 Answers

Across

Source for "kiwi"5 Be a bounder4 Person who's short and lacks credit4 Back up announcement5 Alberto, to amigos4 Moniker for those with no id4 Painted by number10 Particular people4 Misdirection metaphor15 Flatter, perhaps3 Sporty Swedish models of the '60s5 Coke and Sprite, to Coca-Cola8 Network interface5 Word on Iran's flag5 Gaming concern5 Gas __3 Rotation unit4 Younger man of Tacitus' time5 Questionable action?4 Reason to get hitched3 Cell starter5 Faerie Queene excerpt5 The heel of Arabia5 Help to be heroic8 Semolina with the sound of a Southeastern school city5 What talks need to be heard3 Person who grew up on the Oregon Trail15 Coop group4 Non-nutritive food for thought10 Call of the wild4 Big name in Rationalism and Mind-Body Dualism4 Animal with a "water" etymology5 Fully from the start4 Grows, with "to"4 Whom Cooper based Bumppo on5

Down

Miniaturized hearing aids4 Half the alphabet4 City that thanks London with an annual Christmas tree4 Game piece that was a chariot long ago4 Graspable7 Delay, delay, delay9 He looted "three ships from Spain" in his "Ballad"4 They come with an agenda5 Where people work on their feet8 Aww-ful assessment6 Small time piece10 Big sports bet4 Sad ending4 Banjo bar4 Best Score Oscar nominee name for Gandhi4 Drop a line4 Product of fusion5 Detained, by definition10 Hair piece3 Rural footpath access5 Seasonal concern?5 They're quirky9 Tavern's light reading4 Shadow in the sky8 Lap up3 Titel fur Manner4 Inner ear7 Literally, "little mush"6 Panamanian well4 In a tangle5 Additional hearing4 Impend4 Hit the dirt4 Medal awarder "in service of peace and freedom"4 Eating up4 Gulf between two continents4 "I wish to tune my quivering __": Byron4