New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 09 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SMELL REEK
Dish with a crispy tortilla shell TOSTADA
MAKES A NOTE OF LOGS
Point of contact between neurons SYNAPSE
Nation to which the island of Tortuga belongs HAITI
___ EXAM ORAL
Period preceding a big event RUNUP
RUSSIAN BALLET COMPANY KIROV
Burn, so to speak DISS
Sudden riser in status UPSTART
RAGGEDY ___ ANN
Prominent feature of Hello Kitty HAIRBOW
Got the word out? SAID
One whose mentality begins with M-E? EGOTIST
CROWD SWARM
Civil rights leader ___ B. Wells IDA
Wonder drug CRUELLA
Three-time nominee for Best Director (1994, 2009, 2019) TARNATION
Advanced H.S. course taught by a professoressa, say APITALIAN
Bygone Apple products IPODS
Longtime college basketball coach Kruger LON
Film that lasts a while? RESIDUE
MAXIMUM PEAK
MATERIALIZED AROSE
Parisian patriarch PERE
Transportation app banned in Denmark, Hungary and Thailand UBER
Group of cable news talking heads PANEL
Something found near a trap LAT
SEE 62-ACROSS REVERSE
Civil War and Reconstruction, e.g. ERAS
What has posts all around a site FENCE
PALINDROMIC FAMILY NICKNAME NAN
Announcement before taking a leap HEREIGO
They take marks off at school ERASERS
With 63-Across, tricky football play … as represented by this puzzle’s shaded squares? DOUBLE
Command to a getaway driver SETPOINT
Reality TV staple DRAMA
Band dates GIGS
“Wake word” for an Apple device SIRI
Name suffix that can combine with “Henri” ETTA
Biblical figure whose name is repeated in a Faulkner title ABSALOM
Bareilles of Broadway SARA
Game faces? AVATARS
More forgiving GENTLER
Kooks CRAZIES
KIND OF RADIATION GAMMA
INTRACTABLE SITUATION IMPASSE
Related to vision OPTIC
RESCUES LASVEGAS
LOO LAV
She recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at Clinton’s first inauguration ANGELOU
Conditional word in programming ELSE
Currency of 20 countries EURO
Author Joyce Carol ___ OATES
Like some goons HIRED
Some hormonal flare-ups ZITS
PLAYGROUND GAME TAG
They’re often sugarcoated SWEETS
Like lightning and some tongues FORKED
Final circuit in a track race BELLLAP
Julian who founded WikiLeaks ASSANGE
HAVE THE FINAL TURN GLOATS
Powerlifter’s sound GRUNT
Body part just below the philtrum LIP
Like hotel checkouts that may cost extra LATE
NOT MANY AFEW
UP TO, BRIEFLY TIL
UNIT OF EXPLOSIVE POWER KILOTON
HODA OF MORNING TV KOTB
IMPOSE, AS A TAX LEVY
SCOLDING REPROOF
Foundation, e.g., for short ORG