New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 09 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Dose for an LSD trip ACIDTAB
Carry (around) LUG
Quick confirmation of feasibility SANITYCHECK
Mover’s vehicle VAN
JOKES AROUND KIDS
Massachusetts college town AMHERST
Overused and uncreative STALE
___ A SKETCH (CLASSIC TOY) ETCH
It beats a high card but nothing else PAIR
Wheel’s place on a ship HELM
ZILCH NIL
Jerry’s foe in old cartoons TOM
PART OF THE HAND PALM
Classic ice cream order VANILLA
Sentence that often appears in the first paragraph of an essay THESISSTATEMENT
The “Iliad,” for one EPIC
Shoe brand named for a Greek goddess NIKE
A panda’s is 99% bamboo DIET
Loses on purpose, as an N.B.A. team TANKS
MUST HAVE NEED
ACTIVIST PARKS ROSA
New York Times opinion writer Klein EZRA
Elder Obama daughter MALIA
Animal in “Happy hump day!” memes CAMEL
Laws passed by Congress ACTS
Supreme Court justice appointed by Barack Obama ELENAKAGAN
2023’s “Fatal Attraction” and “The Little Mermaid” REMAKES
“Sadly ?” ALAS
POKER BUY-IN ANTE
KINDA SEMI
Football player in upstate New York BUFFALOBILL
CEASES HALTS
DROP IN THE OCEAN? SINK
NPR HOST GLASS IRA
IPHONE ASSISTANT SIRI
RICE DISH PILAF
Plops oneself down SITS
Cry from someone seeking revenge ? or a hint to the ends of 16-, 22-, 37- and 49-Across YOULLPAYFORTHIS
Stat of interest to a competitive crossword solver TIME
Yellowfin or bluefin TUNA
Mom-and-pop store, e.g. RETAILSHOP
Cable channel that first showed “Beavis and Butt-head” MTV
Pumps iron at the gym LIFTS
Some cuts of pork LOINS
OLD ENOUGH OFAGE
Empire whose capital city was Tenochtitlán AZTEC
KEY POINT MAINIDEA
It’s almost 80% nitrogen AIR
Word before ended, handed or minded OPEN
FLEUR-DE-___ LIS
Pollution that can change the colors of a sunset SMOG
IRKSOME PESKY
The “A” of M.F.A. ARTS
Remote-controlled flier DRONE
Early computer scientist Lovelace ADA
THUS FAR ASYET
DEFAMED IN PRINT LIBELED
Temporarily calm period LULL
BABY COW CALF
SPANISH BULL TORO
QUADRI- MINUS ONE TRI
Fastidious to a fault ANAL
LITTLE DRINKS SIPS
Button to press when stepping away from a Zoom meeting MUTE
EMPLOY USE
Loud and unhappy sports fans, in slang BOOBIRDS
SAT. PRECEDER FRI
The “C” of a printer’s CMYK CYAN
DOUGHNUT SHAPES TORI
TOP-NOTCH AONE
ACTRESS WATSON EMMA
Kissing on the street, e.g., for short PDA
BALKAN NATIVE SLAV
NOT WORTH A ___ SOU
LAUGHING SOUNDS HAHAS
TATTLE (ON) RAT