Newsday Crossword May 9, 2026 Answers

Across

Ruffle5 Sneak or creep3 Certain dance party4 __ al Ajillo (garlicky entree)5 What's redundant to follow with "Desert"4 Certain dance party4 Screen's space savers10 What lemons are4 Hamlet's dagger6 Paraglider's purchase7 Pacific Rim's Fifth Avenue5 Bellyaches6 Soft numbers13 Cross word3 Celebrious5 Crowned5 Tight bunch4 Woman of Canadian extraction5 Second profession4 Advances for a short time5 Bandleader autograph with a pentagram5 Fine crack3 Unplanned minor meetings13 Neighborhood beside UCLA6 Historic African cattle herder5 Sound capital7 Assemble for a sequel6 Well-chosen4 Unwritten endorsement10 Many a Bogart film4 Worshiper in a "gateway to the Guru"4 Swamplike5 Periodes de moustiques intenses4 LFB's putative Wizard inspiration3 2024 discovery on Mars' highest mountain5

Down

Mobile utility3 Simple sort4 Prime Cuts Dry brand4 Boglike6 Brewer's heat source7 Make a mark of3 Be by4 Cut off6 Finish for Southern diners8 Asphalt Legends, e.g.10 What the detectives in the novel Three Bags Full are5 Assyrians' enemies5 2020s' youthful "zero reaction"9 Cat's paw6 Go for a spin4 Abased oneself7 Heads out4 The Perfect Scam podcaster4 Pandowdy cousin10 Where Bell was raised9 __ a primera vista4 "Sounds good"4 Velvety milk drinks8 Encyclopedia Brown, enduringly6 Diminish delicately4 Integral to the organization7 Unsurpassably uninspiring6 One losing deliberately6 Stood for5 Whom Woolf praised with "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"5 Roman Empire province with city-states4 Introduction to saving4 Exams with an "open" option4 Mrs. __ (1996 First Lady bestseller)3 What the tennis US Open is played on3