New York Times Answers - Thursday, 17th May 2012

There are 24 across clues and 35 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Thursday, 17th May 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Cheap wheels, perhaps
AAcross 8:	Afghan power
AAcross 15:	Wigged out	GONEAPE
AAcross 16:	Going-away request	WRITEME
AAcross 17:	Jazz trumpeter Sandoval and others	ARTUROS
AAcross 18:	Peter and Annette of film	OTOOLES
AAcross 19:	1960s teaching focus	NEWMATH
AAcross 20:	Response to a polite refusal / (next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit	IINSIST
AAcross 21:	"Steady ___ goes"	ASSHE
AAcross 24:	Looks for oneself, in a way	EGOSURFS
AAcross 29:	___ motel	NOTELL
AAcross 31:	What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit	ONEBASE
AAcross 32:	First satellite to transmit a phone call through space, 1962	TELSTAR
AAcross 36:	Cold showers
AAcross 40:	Help board a plane, say	ASSISTON
AAcross 42:	Young partner / (next line) It's spelled out in a Travis Tritt hit
AAcross 43:	Connecticut city on the Quinnipiac River	MERIDEN
AAcross 47:	Hard work
AAcross 51:	Pull off
AAcross 52:	It's not for big shots
AAcross 53:	Electrical device that may blow
AAcross 54:	Paul Anka hit with a rhyming title	ESOBESO
AAcross 55:	Salsa quality
AAcross 56:	Beginning
DDown 1:	Like part of Lake Victoria
DDown 2:	Not losing well
DDown 3:	Interweave
DDown 4:	Te ___	DEUM
DDown 5:	Niña or Pinta
DDown 6:	"There's ___ of gold ..."	APOT
DDown 7:	Do some farrier's work on
DDown 8:	Club not seen much nowadays
DDown 9:	Class for budding painters
DDown 10:	Den member
DDown 11:	Midori and Lance	ITOS
DDown 12:	Creed
DDown 13:	___ Straw Poll	AMES
DDown 14:	Get a home in order
DDown 22:	A bit, informally
DDown 23:	Gown go-with
DDown 25:	Enter the draft, maybe	GOPRO
DDown 26:	Matches
DDown 27:	Hot Wheels product
DDown 28:	Small paving stones
DDown 30:	Military transports: Abbr.	LSTS
DDown 33:	It runs by the White House	ESTREET
DDown 34:	Mr. Ellington, in a 1977 song	SIRDUKE
DDown 35:	Sorry bunch?
DDown 37:	Asian land where French is widely spoken
DDown 38:	Makes a 43-Down of
DDown 39:	Fire starter?	STELMOS
DDown 41:	Nog flavorer
DDown 43:	Netting
DDown 44:	Big show
DDown 45:	Confident cry	ICAN
DDown 46:	Nantes seasons	ETES
DDown 48:	"All ___!" (court cry)
DDown 49:	General feeling
DDown 50:	Former capital of Romania	IASI