New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 09 30

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