Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday November 9th 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Gets going : KICK-STARTS
11 Plant also known as Pisum sativum : PEA
14 “Give me your worst!” : I CAN TAKE IT
15 Certain cats : TOMS
16 Portmanteau for a moody and strong-willed toddler : THREENAGER
17 Actress Shawkat who played Maeby on “Arrested Development” : ALIA
18 Domaine d’Agnès Varda : CINE
19 Making a car payment, dusting the living room, scheduling a doctor’s appointment, etc. : ADULTING
21 Sea shrunk by Soviet siphoning : ARAL
22 British sci-fi novelist McDonald : IAN
24 Place for a mind or a ball : GUTTER
25 Antacid brand : ROLAIDS
27 Wrinkle of time? : AGE LINE
28 Moniker for 6’9″ N.F.L. star Ed Jones : TOO TALL
30 Behold, in Latin : ECCE
31 It’s a hole thing : PAR
34 Get hot and bothered : SWELTER
36 Work whose first installment spanned 352 pages and ended with “ant,” in brief : OED
37 Guinness of “The Bridge on the River Kwai” : ALEC
39 Fish in the flounder family : HALIBUT
41 Like i, say : NON-REAL
43 Professor Xavier’s students, e.g. : MUTANTS
47 Accomplish with precision : DO TO A T
48 Purchase on an island? : GAS
49 Character name in “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Downton Abbey” : CORA
50 Of the land : AGRARIAN
52 Nearly-round figure : OVAL
53 Falsify, in a way : COOK
54 Very short story? : CRAWL SPACE
58 With faculty : ABLY
59 To-do following a business meeting : ACTION ITEM
60 Unit equivalent to one-thousandth of an inch : MIL
61 Stadium section : NOSEBLEEDS
DOWN
1 Ride arranged on one’s own : KIT CAR
2 Mononymous baseball star who played 28 seasons professionally : ICHIRO
3 Body-related : CARNAL
4 Pray in front of, as an altar : KNEEL AT
5 Abbr. in many French church names : STE
6 Sin/cos : TAN
7 Letters before a handle : AKA
8 “King Lear” part : REGAN
9 In knots : TIED
10 Something the floundering are said to be on : STRUGGLE BUS
11 Party person : POLITICO
12 Height : EMINENCE
13 “Per our negotiations …” : AS AGREED
15 Spill : TATTLE
20 Tyronn ___, N.B.A. champion as both player and coach : LUE
22 Modest reply to a compliment : I DO WHAT I CAN
23 So much cheaper than expected, say : A STEAL
26 Greek island south of Naxos : IOS
27 Accord alternative : ALTIMA
29 What “tutti” means on scores : ALL
31 Producer of black-and-white footage? : PANDACAM
32 Indian dish of potatoes and cauliflower : ALOO GOBI
33 Landlord’s register : RENT ROLL
35 Dirt road hazard : RUT
38 Deep and hoarse : CROAKY
40 Tex-Mex casserole : TACO PIE
42 Middle ___ : EAR
44 Replace with a new contract, in legalese : NOVATE
45 Like scents and stencils : TRACED
46 “___ Lot” : ‘SALEM’S
48 Creatures in God’s third plague in Exodus : GNATS
51 Musical counterpart of pizzicato : ARCO
55 “___ geht’s?” (German “How’s it going?”) : WIE
56 Shot one waits to knock back : LOB
57 1975 TV debut, in brief : SNL
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