Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday September 22nd 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 One getting into some hot water? : BATHER
7 Home monitors : UMPS
11 Data sought in phishing attempts, in brief : SSNS
15 Thus far : TO DATE
21 Cry from a treehouse : UP HERE
22 Doesn’t rule out, as a possibility : KEEPS OPEN
24 Wrinkle-free, say : IRONED
25 Turned on an axis : SLEWED
26 Real no-brainer? : UTTER FOOL
27 Colorful ingredients in some cookie recipes : M AND MS
28 Trash : TOSS
29 Reef lurker : EEL
31 Ways off : EXITS
32 Part of H.M.S. : HER
34 Word with body or blood : TYPE
35 Texter’s alternative to an eye roll emoji : SMH
36 Olympians on stunt bikes, informally : BMX’ERS
38 Genre for Fall Out Boy : EMO POP
41 U.S. currency: Abbr. : DOL
42 Negative influence on others, metaphorically : BAD APPLE
44 Expressed : PUT
47 To sweeten the deal : AS A BONUS
49 Declines to : WON’T
50 Houdini’s signature feat … or a hint to the circled squares in this puzzle : ESCAPE ACT
53 Basis for a feud : BEEF
54 Rudder found in nature : FISH FIN
57 “Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that’s all. I was in the path of the ___” (quote from 18-Down) : TORNADO
58 Became stuck : HIT A RUT
61 “This is the worst!” : UGH
62 Receptacle for soaking before a pedicure : FOOT SPA
64 Brainy bunch : MENSANS
66 Electronica pioneer Brian : ENO
67 Bulgarian or Bosnian : SLAV
69 Rap group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame : NWA
70 The White House grounds have 18 of them : ACRES
72 Some online pings, in brief : IMS
73 “Yo!,” on the down-low : PSST
74 Lightning-fast hedgehog of video games : SONIC
76 What “washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” per Picasso : ART
78 Lane for carpoolers : HOV
79 Six-foot-tall Aussie sprinter : EMU
80 Grows dimmer : WANES
81 “Are you ___ drive?” : OK TO
82 Certain online video snippet : YOUTUBE CLIP
85 Downwind, to seafarers : ALEE
86 “Breaking Bad” channel : AMC
88 Fastener that’s one letter ahead of “U-bolt” in the dictionary : T-NUT
89 Org. with the Artemis program : NASA
90 Office building unit: Abbr. : STE
91 What a police escort may offer : SAFE PASSAGE
95 Classic cover-ups for spies : TRENCH COATS
100 Fumble or bumble : ERR
101 Card game with a Power Grab edition : UNO
102 “Good joke!” : HAH
103 Red side, in brief : GOP
104 Indecency : POOR TASTE
108 Female in the forest : DOE
111 “Like that matters to me!” : AS IF I CARE
114 Stage a jailbreak à la 18-Down : TUNNEL OUT
115 Annual May race, familiarly : IND
116 Held together in a makeshift way : DUCT TAPED
117 Wraps : ENDS
118 Sizable challenge for a mover : SOFA
119 Make a break for it : RUN
120 Yearn (for) : ACHE
121 Swain : BEAU
122 Parts of N.F.L. highlight reels, for short : TDS
123 This really blows! : TNT
124 Airport monitor, for short : TSA
125 Razz : KID
126 Pennzoil competitor : STP
DOWN
1 Exceeds 21, in blackjack : BUSTS
2 Poise under pressure : APLOMB
3 With 6-Down, prison drama released on September 23, 1994 : THE SHAWSHANK
4 Hacks with an ax : HEWS
5 Ahead of, in poetry : ERE
6 See 3-Down : REDEMPTION
7 Instrument strummed in the Train song “Hey, Soul Sister” : UKULELE
8 Popular gala venue, with “the” : MET
9 Sneaky ___ (sly dogs) : PETES
10 Glasses, informally : SPEX
11 Like cashmere : SOFT
12 Imagine, casually : S’POSE
13 Prefix with -lithic : NEO-
14 16-time gig for Steve Martin : SNL HOST
15 Portrayer of 18-Down : TIM ROBBINS
16 “Cup ___ cone?” : OR A
17 Terse admonishment : DON’T
18 Lead role in 3-Down/6-Down : ANDY DUFRESNE
19 They’re measured in beats per minute : TEMPOS
20 Famed Ford flop : EDSEL
23 Honorific from Sanskrit : SRI
30 Date on a debit card: Abbr. : EXP
33 Pollution-regulating org. : EPA
36 Resort town in Alberta’s Rockies : BANFF
37 Kicks back : RESTS
39 “The Heart of Georgia” : MACON
40 ___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey : POETS
43 “What was I thinking!?” : D’OH
44 Fall accessory? : PARACHUTE
45 Bygone channel that launched with the two-hour pilot of “Star Trek: Voyager” : UPN
46 4×100 relay, for one : TEAM EVENT
48 Org. with Student Success Grants : NEA
51 ___ América (quadrennial soccer championship) : COPA
52 Juice drinks : ADES
54 To-do : FUSS
55 Yeti’s commercial rival : IGLOO
56 “Ain’t gonna happen!” : NO WAY
58 Overplay : HAM UP
59 Erase from one’s memory, in slang : UNSEE
60 Target audience for “Peppa Pig” : TOTS
63 Decks with cards numbered I through XXI : TAROTS
65 Apelike : SIMIAN
68 Curriculum ___ : VITAE
71 Take inventory? : ROB
73 Prefix with -lithic : PALEO-
75 Make sense : COMPUTE
77 Ingredient in a niçoise salad : TUNA
79 Conditional coding word : ELSE
80 “Hey, I’m walkin’ here!” : WATCH IT
83 Harbor helper : TUG
84 It might get booted : CAR
87 Main blvd. through N.Y.C.’s Chinatown : CANAL ST
90 Treated unfairly, informally : SHAFTED
91 The swans in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” e.g. : SEPTET
92 In the area : AROUND
93 Some makeshift fans : FRONDS
94 “Already?!” : SO SOON
96 Ostentatiously stylish : CHICHI
97 Early Christian meals of love and fellowship : AGAPES
98 Unwrapped with gusto : TORE AT
99 Accelerated : SPED UP
105 Shot makers, for short : RNS
106 Top of a titmouse : TUFT
107 H on a frat house : ETA
108 Shoveled stuff : DIRT
109 Unwelcome obligation : ONUS
110 Irish novelist O’Brien : EDNA
111 Coding pioneer Lovelace : ADA
112 Be bad, like really bad : SUCK
113 Kin of a zin : CAB
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