Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday November 16th 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Goober : DORK
5 Outlaws : BANS
9 Not deliberate : HASTY
14 Headquarters of Talofa Airways : APIA, SAMOA
16 Leads down the aisle at a wedding, informally : USHES
17 Ballerina who popularized “The Nutcracker” : TALLCHIEF
18 Sandbar : SHOAL
19 Word on Saudi Arabia’s flag : ALLAH
20 2002 movie with the tagline “Higher education just hit a new low” : SLACKERS
22 A great deal : MUCH
24 Revel noisily : ROISTER
26 Angel hair topper? : HALO
27 Place : SITE
28 Element between platino and mercurio : ORO
29 Big bands : JAZZ ORCHESTRAS
32 Italian province on the Swiss border : COMO
33 Holy book, in one spelling : KORAN
34 Does a job for a summer? : ADDS
35 Phrase on ID tags : FAMOUS POTATOES
38 Wordle score that elicits the message “Genius” : ONE
39 Pulse, e.g. : SEED
40 Veet rival : NAIR
41 Cold palate cleansers : SORBETS
43 About 91,500 are produced by a gal. of propane : BTUS
44 Goes green, maybe : FEELS ILL
46 “___ Dragon” (1977 Disney film) : PETE’S
50 Big dipper : LADLE
51 Like some asteroids : NEAR-EARTH
53 Hurdles for would-be doctors : ORALS
54 Is cautious : TAKES CARE
55 Represent : ACT AS
56 Piece with a point : OP-ED
57 Mind : HEED
DOWN
1 Crunched stuff : DATA
2 ___ Lee, activist who led the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday : OPAL
3 Small stream : RILL
4 Home to “a real pipperoo” of song : KALAMAZOO
5 Grinchy shout : BAH!
6 Like participants in the rite of rumspringa : AMISH
7 Present time : NOEL
8 Something to wear while watching the game : SAFARI HAT
9 College basketball powerhouse : HUSKIES
10 Flicks, as a butt : ASHES
11 Food that can be prepared quickly : SHORT ORDER
12 Buzzy promos : TEASER ADS
13 Valentino competitor, for short : YSL
15 Woodstock artist : SCHULZ
21 Housemate, e.g. : COTENANT
23 Camping kits for preparing meals : COOK SETS
25 Host of “The Joy of Painting” : ROSS
26 Continually criticized : HAMMERED AT
27 Young haddock : SCROD
29 Subject of New York City’s first public statue of a woman (1915) : JOAN OF ARC
30 Enlists for, as an unwelcome task : ROPES INTO
31 Prime minister of Ireland : TAOISEACH
32 Corp. money managers : CFOS
36 Good-for-nothing : USELESS
37 Brownish grays : TAUPES
42 Model Hadid who wore a spray-on dress at a 2022 Paris fashion show : BELLA
43 Poet whose line “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom” is quoted in “Bull Durham” : BLAKE
45 Antepenultimate word in a noted Neil Armstrong quote : LEAP
47 All-Star point guard Young : TRAE
48 Being, to Sartre : ETRE
49 Shake off : SHED
50 “Mahalo nui ___” (words from a grateful Hawaiian) : LOA
52 Like three-balls : RED
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