New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 09 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
REAL NO-BRAINER? UTTERFOOL
“Bad luck, I guess ? It was my turn, that’s all. I was in the path of the ___” (quote from 18-Down) TORNADO
Rudder found in nature FISHFIN
Receptacle for soaking before a pedicure FOOTSPA
Basis for a feud BEEF
Houdini?s signature feat ? or a hint to the circled squares in this puzzle ESCAPEACT
To sweeten the deal ASABONUS
Negative influence on others, metaphorically BADAPPLE
THUS FAR TODATE
TURNED ON AN AXIS SLEWED
Became stuck HITARUT
What “washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” per Picasso ART
TRASH TOSS
Six-foot-tall Aussie sprinter EMU
“Are you ___ drive?” OKTO
Certain online video snippet YOUTUBECLIP
“This is the worst!” UGH
The White House grounds have 18 of them ACRES
Fastener that’s one letter ahead of “U-bolt” in the dictionary TNUT
Rap group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame NWA
“Yo!,” on the down-low PSST
Electronica pioneer Brian ENO
Bulgarian or Bosnian SLAV
Fumble or bumble ERR
Card game with a Power Grab edition UNO
Some online pings, in brief IMS
EXPRESSED PUT
Downwind, to seafarers ALEE
Olympians on stunt bikes, informally BMXERS
“Breaking Bad” channel AMC
Word with body or blood TYPE
Ways off EXITS
Reef lurker EEL
CURRICULUM ___ VITAE
Org. with the Artemis program NASA
Colorful ingredients in some cookie recipes MANDMS
Lightning-fast hedgehog of video games SONIC
WRINKLE-FREE, SAY IRONED
Lane for carpoolers HOV
Cry from a treehouse UPHERE
“Good joke!” HAH
Home monitors UMPS
Office building unit: Abbr. STE
GROWS DIMMER WANES
Declines to WONT
TO-DO FUSS
GENRE FOR FALL OUT BOY EMOPOP
IN THE AREA AROUND
MAKE SENSE COMPUTE
SEE 3-DOWN REDEMPTION
Classic cover-ups for spies TRENCHCOATS
RAZZ KID
YEARN (FOR) ACHE
MAKE A BREAK FOR IT RUN
PART OF H.M.S. HER
Red side, in brief GOP
One getting into some hot water? BATHER
Stage a jailbreak à la 18-Down TUNNELOUT
Annual May race, familiarly IND
U.S. CURRENCY: ABBR. DOL
Sizable challenge for a mover SOFA
BRAINY BUNCH MENSANS
What a police escort may offer SAFEPASSAGE
Exceeds 21, in blackjack BUSTS
With 6-Down, prison drama released on September 23, 1994 THESHAWSHANK
Hacks with an ax HEWS
Ahead of, in poetry ERE
Instrument strummed in the Train song “Hey, Soul Sister” UKULELE
Popular gala venue, with “the” MET
Sneaky ___ (sly dogs) PETES
Like cashmere SOFT
Doesn’t rule out, as a possibility KEEPSOPEN
Data sought in phishing attempts, in brief SSNS
Portrayer of 18-Down TIMROBBINS
“Cup ___ cone?” ORA
Terse admonishment DONT
Lead role in 3-Down/6-Down ANDYDUFRESNE
They’re measured in beats per minute TEMPOS
Date on a debit card: Abbr. EXP
Pollution-regulating org. EPA
Texter?s alternative to an eye roll emoji SMH
“What was I thinking!?” DOH
Fall accessory? PARACHUTE
TAKE INVENTORY? ROB
4×100 relay, for one TEAMEVENT
Org. with Student Success Grants NEA
___ América (quadrennial soccer championship) COPA
APELIKE SIMIAN
WRAPS ENDS
FEMALE IN THE FOREST DOE
PREFIX WITH -LITHIC NEO
PREFIX WITH -LITHIC PALEO
___ CORNER, SECTION OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY POETS
POISE UNDER PRESSURE APLOMB
KICKS BACK RESTS
SWAIN BEAU
GLASSES, INFORMALLY SPEX
OVERPLAY HAMUP
“Like that matters to me!” ASIFICARE
Conditional coding word ELSE
Juice drinks ADES
PENNZOIL COMPETITOR STP
HARBOR HELPER TUG
Honorific from Sanskrit SRI
“The Heart of Georgia” MACON
Famed Ford flop EDSEL
Yeti’s commercial rival IGLOO
“Ain’t gonna happen!” NOWAY
Parts of N.F.L. highlight reels, for short TDS
Target audience for “Peppa Pig” TOTS
Decks with cards numbered I through XXI TAROTS
Ingredient in a niçoise salad TUNA
“Hey, I’m walkin’ here!” WATCHIT
It might get booted CAR
Main blvd. through N.Y.C.’s Chinatown CANALST
Treated unfairly, informally SHAFTED
The swans in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” e.g. SEPTET
OSTENTATIOUSLY STYLISH CHICHI
UNWELCOME OBLIGATION ONUS
AIRPORT MONITOR, FOR SHORT TSA
H ON A FRAT HOUSE ETA
Some makeshift fans FRONDS
This really blows! TNT
Early Christian meals of love and fellowship AGAPES
Unwrapped with gusto TOREAT
Shot makers, for short RNS
Top of a titmouse TUFT
Shoveled stuff DIRT
Irish novelist O’Brien EDNA
Coding pioneer Lovelace ADA
Be bad, like really bad SUCK
Kin of a zin CAB
Imagine, casually SPOSE
Resort town in Alberta’s Rockies BANFF
INDECENCY POORTASTE
Erase from one’s memory, in slang UNSEE
Held together in a makeshift way DUCTTAPED
ACCELERATED SPEDUP
16-time gig for Steve Martin SNLHOST
Bygone channel that launched with the two-hour pilot of “Star Trek: Voyager” UPN
“Already?!” SOSOON