Vox Crossword May 16 2026 Answers (5/16/26)

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Vox Crossword May 16, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Vox Crossword on 5/16/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Dust bunny attackers, for short
5A Clamshell phone from Motorola
9A Exclamation accompanied by jazz hands
13A "That really sticks in my ___!"
14A "I Am Not My Hair" singer India
15A Like every perfect number discovered so far
16A School with the mascots Joe and Josephine Bruin
17A Point on a fork
18A "If it ___ broke, don't fix it"
19A Burkina Faso's first president, who personally wrote its national anthem
23A So-called king of the jungle, despite the fact that it actually lives on the savannah
24A Key that moves the cursor to the next field
27A "Sk8er ___"
28A Nickname for a Hideaki Anno anime series
29A Closest to the stern
31A Has an appointment with
33A Gives the thumbs-up
35A Male equivalents of countesses
36A First female mayor of Los Angeles
40A Look forward to
43A Fond du ___, Wisconsin
44A Mind-blowing experience
48A Beef or pork, but not chicken or turkey
51A Dribble catcher
53A Measure that's higher for IPAs than for lambics
54A Channel that the Dead Kennedys told to "get off the air"
55A Sushi with a green filling
58A Ken Russell horror film about sensory deprivation experiments...and what this puzzle's circled letters contain?
60A The ___ of your existence
62A Real estate move, for short
63A State home to an important writers' workshop
64A Scalp pests
65A Quartet, if one member's off sick
66A Executive, disdainfully
67A Arduous journey
68A Enjoy a nice long bath
69A One of the cardinal directions, in Spanish
1D Muscles framed by the Adonis belt
2D Nemesis
3D Unit of energy in food science
4D Ascetic in Hinduism
5D Reptile named for a rodent
6D One of the fonts in Microsoft's "Core fonts for the Web" project
7D Colorful flower that's been grown on the International Space Station
8D Strongly suggest
9D Sign of emotion
10D Sunglasses style with dark lenses
11D Room with a recliner
12D Insect found on every continent but Antarctica, ironically
20D Spade with a highly decorated symbol
21D Roll around on the tongue
22D Initial stakes in poker
25D Language in "CODA"
26D Band that includes Jin, J-Hope, Jimin, and Jung Kook
30D Support for a sail
32D Read just to get the gist
34D Show that aired its thousandth episode in January 2026
37D Really bothered
38D Top hat-wearing monster in an Australian horror film
39D Lemon juice, vinegar, etc.
40D Flailing part of an inflatable tube man
41D Just out of the shower
42D Upfront payment to an author
45D Hilariously funny
46D "This is all my fault"
47D Throb
49D Stops from happening
50D Bullfighter
52D Non-human account
56D "Brief Encounter" star Johnson
57D Employee's cause for celebration
59D Vegetable wielded by the Pokémon Farfetch'd, in some translations
60D Sandwich named for its fillings
61D It's mostly nitrogen

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