Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday, August 16 2016

__ greens – BEET
___ Hart, lead role in “Chicago” – ROXIE

Auto with a black, blue and white logo – BMW
Big Apple inits. – NYC
Birch relative often used in electric guitars – ALDER
Bisque or gazpacho – SOUP
Blog update, e.g. – POST
Blue Ribbon brewer – PABST
Brother of Shemp and Curly – MOE
Cello cousin – VIOLA
Celtic tongue of the British Isles – ERSE
Decorate – ADORN
Deserted – ABANDONED
De-squeaker – OIL
Diminishes – EBBS
Documentarian Burns – KEN
Fit ___ tied – TOBE
Gambler’s chances – ODDS
Gets lucky with one’s car downtown, say – PARKS
Gorilla – APE
Group led by Richard the Lionheart – CRUSADERS
Guy shouting “Cowabunga!,” say – SURFERDUDE
Heartsick – SAD
Helicopter part – ROTOR
Hurdles for Ph.D.s – THESES
Implement for eating 14-Across – SPOON
Ironclad evidence – PROOF
Job openings – SLOTS
Kind of port on a PC – USB
Lacking broad application – NARROWLYDEFINED

Lauder with a cosmetics empire – ESTEE
Lessen, as expenses – PARE
Liability’s opposite – ASSET
Like 10-Down vis-à-vis any other senator in history – OLDER
Like a ram or lamb – OVINE
Like a trait present at birth – INNATE
Like rappers Wayne and Kim – LIL
Mall stand – KIOSK
Mex. miss – SRTA
Minuscule – TEENY
MS. readers at Ms., e.g. – EDS
Mt. Rushmore’s state: Abbr. – SDAK
Olympic swords – EPEES
One offering test drives – CARDEALER
Onetime CBS News anchor – ROGERMUDD
Output of Santa’s workshop – TOYS
Ownership documents – DEEDS
Peter out – DIE
Popeye’s brawny rival for Olive Oyl – BLUTO
Prefix with -meter or -scope : PERI – PERI
Pulsate painfully – THROB
Quite bizarre – OUTRE
Quran deity – ALLAH
Rammed from behind – REARENDED
Rational self, to Freud – EGO
Remotely controlled flier – DRONE
Revealing skirt – MINI
Romney’s 2012 running mate – RYAN
Sales worker, briefly – REP
Saver’s bank holding: Abbr. – ACCT
Sorbets, e.g. – ICES
Sounds from schnauzers – ARFS
Star Wars droid … or a phonetic hint to what’s found in 17-, 26-, 41- and 52-Across – ARTOODETOO
Still in draft form – ROUGH
Subj. for the foreign-born – ESL
Superfund org. – EPA
Tablet since 2010 – IPAD
Thin porridge – GRUEL
Thurmond who left the Senate at age 100 – STROM
Torah holders – ARKS
Tour leader – GUIDE
Trebek with all the answers – ALEX
Troupe grp. – USO
Um … excuse me? – DOYOUMIND
Uproar – FUROR
UV blockage no. – SPF
Words before “So sue me!” – ILIED
Wrath – ANGER