Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Monday October 28th 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Many a customer service assistant, nowadays : BOT
4 Animal on the state seal of Maine : MOOSE
9 Lacking slack : TAUT
13 Blackjack card worth 1 or 11 : ACE
14 Friend of Mickey and Goofy : DONALD
15 Actress Kendrick : ANNA
16 “___ all good!” : IT’S
17 Nursery rhyme about a disastrous trip up a hill : JACK AND JILL
19 How salt and pepper may be added, in a recipe : TO TASTE
21 Southeast Asian language : LAO
22 Knotted neckwear : TIE
23 Susceptible to sunburn : PALE
24 “Four score and seven years ___ …” : AGO
26 Pesky summer swarm : GNATS
28 Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall : HUMPTY DUMPTY
31 Doesn’t waste : USES
32 Dine : EAT
33 How heavy metal bands typically play : LOUDLY
37 ___ Z, a.k.a. Zoomers : GEN-
38 Comedian Schumer or Poehler : AMY
39 Verbalize : SAY
40 Water, in French : EAU
41 Subject of a will : ESTATE
43 “My Zoom joke flopped … I guess it’s not remotely funny,” e.g. : PUN
44 Marx who co-wrote “The Communist Manifesto” : KARL
45 Nursery rhyme about the hazards of decaying infrastructure : LONDON BRIDGE
48 Energy, idiomatically : STEAM
51 Flat tire’s lack : AIR
52 Fashion magazine with a palindromic name : ELLE
53 Commodity measured in barrels : OIL
54 Hypotheticals : IFS
56 This typeface : ITALICS
59 Nickname for the World Series … or what you might call 17-, 28- or 45-Across? : FALL CLASSIC
62 Word repeated in a double negative : NOT
63 Operatic highlight : ARIA
64 Purpose : INTENT
65 Barely scratch (out) : EKE
66 Quality of a hoarse voice : RASP
67 Drunk-ish : TIPSY
68 Work with needle and thread : SEW
DOWN
1 Angler’s supply : BAIT
2 Eight-armed creatures : OCTOPUSES
3 The Bible has an Old and New one : TESTAMENT
4 Obstacle for a would-be castle attacker : MOAT
5 How often many people brush their teeth (avert your eyes, dentists!) : ONCE A DAY
6 Acorn-bearing tree : OAK
7 Downhill skiing event : SLALOM
8 Poet St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
9 ___ Mahal : TAJ
10 R&B singer Baker : ANITA
11 Like birthday candles before the party starts : UNLIT
12 Stories : TALES
14 Turn at the turntables, for short : DJ SET
18 One might be squeaky or shaped like a bone : DOG TOY
20 “Napoleon Crossing the ___” (painting series) : ALPS
25 Belly : GUT
27 Sch. in Lower Manhattan : NYU
28 Ginormous : HUGE
29 Country south of Saudi Arabia : YEMEN
30 Fallback option : PLAN B
34 “Submit by” dates : DEADLINES
35 Beverage with a Big Mac, perhaps : LARGE COKE
36 Christmas season : YULE
38 Kind of clock that’s ultraprecise : ATOMIC
39 They brighten everyone’s days : SUNRISES
42 ___ carte : A LA
43 Hawaiian taro dish : POI
44 Pass idly, as time : KILL
46 Bottled water brand : DASANI
47 Respond to a stimulus : REACT
48 To date : SO FAR
49 Sparkly headwear : TIARA
50 ___ Island (historic entry point for immigrants) : ELLIS
55 Dart around : FLIT
57 Very small : TINY
58 Hearty meal in a bowl : STEW
60 Place for a snuggly cat : LAP
61 Valvoline competitor : STP
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