The Atlantic Crossword May 17 2026 Answers (5/17/26)

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The Atlantic Crossword May 17, 2026 Answers

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# Clue
1A Some staff members: abbr.
6A Attack
11A Term for a molecule that's found in a Moderna vaccine?
14A Attempt a free throw
15A "Wow, you've got me pegged!"
17A Intentionally overlook
19A Righteousness
20A Tree depicted in some In-N-Out Burger graphics
21A Govt. agency for cryptographers
22A "Ain't gonna happen"
25A Like a clue about a clue
26A Confront
30A Game that relies on shul-searching?
35A "Economic Impact of 'the ___ Tour'" (Michigan Journal of Economics paper)
36A Always, poetically
37A Use a swizzle stick
38A "Upscale" fast-food concept restaurant that serves sangria and hosts weddings
43A Stock holders?
44A Soil-turning implements
45A Top-tier celebrities
48A "Feel free to slide into my DMs"
51A "Cough, cough"
54A Beakers' co-workers
56A Notice for later
59A Cedes, as deeds
60A Gardening implement
61A Surgical suites, for short
62A Michelangelo sculpture that represents the Virgin Mary's sixth sorrow
63A They can get unhinged
1D Lord of the Rings actor Sean
2D Avoids like the plague, say
3D Ish
4D Style
5D Franciscan martyr who became the patron of young girls: abbr.
6D Content of many "Do Not Eat" packets
7D LGBTQ trailblazer Windsor
8D Figure skater and Worst Cooks in America winner Harding
9D Append
10D Plated part of a tap shoe
11D Pluribus actor Seehorn
12D NBA starter?: abbr.
13D One of three in a water molecule
16D Pigeonholes in certain roles
18D Liquid component of 25-Down
23D Kvetch
24D "Bad Moon Rising" band, for short
25D Kake udon alternative
27D Root from Greek that means "light" and "sight"
28D Body part that soccer players usually shield
29D Banks who popularized the term smize
30D Concordes and Cessnas, e.g.
31D The E of QED
32D City that's home to Baylor University and the Dr Pepper Museum
33D Fish sometimes found in the nose of seals
34D Pit dweller?
39D ___ Air (famous Southern California neighborhood)
40D Washington Black novelist Edugyan
41D Largest blood vessel
42D Fit snugly together
46D Actor McQueen or director McQueen
47D Christopher Nolan film with a palindromic title
48D Streaming app that was discontinued in 2020
49D Poetic pattern
50D Web browsers?
51D Rebuttal to "Are not!"
52D Esau's distinctive feature
53D Heart monitor's readouts, for short
55D "Ctrl" + "Z," on most computers
57D Animal depicted on some sarcophagi
58D Miss Piggy catchphrase

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