Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday November 8th 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious ___”: Arthur Conan Doyle : FACT
5 Jerks : SPASMS
11 Potsticker vessel : WOK
14 French bread : EURO
15 Co-star of Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” : ELLIOT PAGE
17 Wax-coated wheel : EDAM
18 “Hold up, what?!” : WAIT REALLY
19 Sitcom that popularized the phrase “What’choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” : DIFF’RENT STROKES
21 Travels all over : TOURS
22 Spoken-word performer ___ Scott-Heron : GIL
23 Big brothers? : ABBOTS
25 Fanaticism : ZEALOTRY
30 Old Hollywood collectibles : REELS
31 Where to take the high road? : RIDGE
32 Retailer with the tagline “A Life Outdoors Is a Life Well Lived” : REI
33 Makes angry : IRES
34 ___-watch : BINGE
35 Allocate : METE
36 Goof : ERR
37 “Lord of the Flies” boy : PIGGY
38 Pizza topping : BASIL
39 Robin Williams called it “a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there” : LAS VEGAS
41 Having kinks, say : CURLED
42 Earth, e.g. : ORB
43 Bump above a belt : OUTIE
44 One working on a long-distance relationship : CULTURAL ATTACHE
51 Dessert that, despite its name, is better classified as a pie or tart : CHEESECAKE
52 Word with room or bot : CHAT-
53 Humble requests : ENTREATIES
54 Part of a succession plan : HEIR
55 Windows forerunner, in brief : DOS
56 Lowdown : SKINNY
57 Man, for one : ISLE
DOWN
1 Put coins in : FEED
2 Parent company of Bentley : AUDI
3 Pricey flight options, perhaps : CRAFT BEERS
4 Doofuses : TOMFOOLS
5 Some underground channels : SEWERS
6 Doesn’t just wing it : PLANS
7 Settled (on) : ALIT
8 Parks oneself : SITS
9 Turn upside down, as a Monopoly deed card : MORTGAGE
10 Beyond clean : STERILE
11 Constitutional : WALK
12 Eyeball : OGLE
13 E and G, e.g. : KEYS
16 ___ Banchero, 2023 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year : PAOLO
20 Same-old same-olds : RUTS
23 Cinematic friend of Scuttle, Flounder and Sebastian : ARIEL
24 “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore” quipper : BERRA
25 Sick burns : ZINGS
26 Risqué : EDGY
27 Dairy-heavy dessert popular throughout Latin America : TRES LECHES
28 Fix, as a bow : RETIE
29 Bond return : YIELD
31 Baltic capital : RIGA
34 Life-changing opportunity, maybe : BIG BREAK
35 Style of music with a vihuela and guitarrón : MARIACHI
37 Examines closely : PERUSES
38 Word before or after head : BUTT
40 One who’s on a roll : VOTER
41 Twee : CUTESY
43 Like many wine barrels : OAKEN
44 Kept up to speed, in a way : CC’ED
45 “Dream on!” : UH NO
46 “Sure, I’m game” : LET’S
47 When Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor : ACT I
48 Reclined : LAIN
49 It comes down hard : HAIL
50 “Sommes” and “serai” are forms of it : ETRE
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