Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday October 10th 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Site for a light bite : CAFE
5 Cy Young winners, e.g. : ACES
9 Dog leg terminus : PAW or PAD
12 Like many Keats works : ODIC
13 Swahili honorific : BWANA
14 “Lucy and ___” (2022 documentary) : DESI
15 Instrument panels : WASHBOARDS or DASHBOARDS
17 Landed : ALIT
18 Sweatshirt style : HOODIE
19 Syllables of laughter : HAH HAH
21 Word on a nutrition label : FAT
23 “Educated insolence,” per Aristotle : WIT
24 Gesture of reassurance : PAT
25 Long time span : AGE
26 Subject to damages : LIABLE
28 Trademark of deadpan stand-ups : WRY HUMOR/DRY HUMOR
30 Lou Grant’s wife on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” : EDIE
31 Bugs, perhaps : SPIES ON
33 Areas that are lower than their surrounding terrain : WELLS or DELLS
35 “I’m flexible” : ANY
36 Toss out : SCRAP
40 Like the femur, among all bones in the body : LARGEST
43 Quiet period : LULL
44 What lies before you, with “the” : WAY AHEAD/DAY AHEAD
47 Not ruling out : OPEN TO
49 Black ___ : ICE
50 Stopover : INN
51 What makes a sticker stickier? : AN I
52 Do some garden work : SOW/SOD
53 Dance floor lighting option : STROBE
55 Text massager : EDITOR
57 Ungulate feature : HOOF
58 Author’s concern that, when parsed as four parts, provides a hint to this puzzle’s theme : WORD CHOICE
62 Sufficient, informally : ENUF
63 Bold, energetic and ambitious type, it’s said : ARIES
64 Speed : ZOOM
65 Collector’s goal : SET
66 Give, but expect back : LEND
67 Words to a betrayer : ET TU
DOWN
1 Major food source animal : COW/COD
2 Computing pioneer Lovelace : ADA
3 Swerve wildly from side to side, as a car : FISHTAIL
4 ___ Park, neighborhood of Los Angeles : ECHO
5 Anticipate : AWAIT
6 Mind : CARE
7 Burnt bit of brisket : END
8 Confidently struts : SASHAYS
9 ___ Bay, neighborhood of the Bronx : PELHAM
10 Italian cheese : ASIAGO
11 Fail to act decisively in the face of a challenge : DITHER
13 Legislative collectives : BODIES
14 One of three in an SOS message : DAH
16 Part of a pipe : BOWL
20 Melancholy Musketeer : ATHOS
21 Raced, as away from danger : FLEW/FLED
22 Right hand : AIDE
24 Feeds (on) : PREYS
27 “Twilight” protagonist : BELLA
28 Lavishly regaled, in a way : DINED
29 Scooby-Doo, to Scrappy-Doo : UNCLE
32 Druid, e.g. : PAGAN
34 Indian honorific : SAHIB
37 Goes hog-wild : RUNS RIOT
38 Prefix with cumulus : ALTO-
39 Move forward resolutely : PLOW/PLOD
41 Fountain of Youth’s promise : RENEWAL
42 Old-timey medicines : TONICS
44 Things listed on a wedding registry : WISHES/DISHES
45 Play opener : ACT ONE
46 “Stee-RIKE three!” follower : YER OUT
48 Essence : PITH
51 Put two and two together, say : ADDED
54 Not quite right : OFF
55 Whistle-blower Brockovich : ERIN
56 Sludge : OOZE
59 Rich rock : ORE
60 Private sleeping accommodations? : COT
61 Big bird : EMU
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