Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Tuesday October 8th 2024, New York Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Tackle, as a crossword : SOLVE
6 Hold responsible : BLAME
11 ___ culpa : MEA
14 Pertaining to bees : APIAN
15 Small bouquets : POSIES
16 “Be on the lookout” message, for short : APB
17 “Beware of this sausage!”? : FEAR THE WURST
19 Insult : DIS
20 Genderqueer identity, informally : ENBY
21 Balaam couldn’t move his : ASS
22 Must : HAVE TO
24 French seasoning : SEL
25 Camera roll contents : PHOTOS
28 Small drum : TABOR
29 Unexpected delight : TREAT
31 Like unshorn wool? : ON THE LAMB
33 Give some lip : SASS
36 Call from a goat : MAA
37 Frosts, as a cupcake : ICES
38 Breed beef cattle? : RAISE THE STEAKS
42 ___ good example : SET A
43 A.A. Milne youngster : ROO
44 Roughly cut : HEWN
45 Charlotte’s first draft for “Some Pig”? : WHAT A BOAR
48 Book in a cartographer’s collection : ATLAS
52 Name of Athena’s shield : AEGIS
53 Two up quarks and a down quark : PROTON
56 Supped on : ATE
57 Crude and tactless : GAUCHE
59 Compete (for) : VIE
60 Giant squids have ones the size of dinner plates : EYES
61 College sr.’s test : GRE
62 Summary of the phonetic puns at 17-, 31-, 38- and 45-Across? : MAKE ENDS MEAT
66 Tee preceder : ESS
67 Building with many wings? : AVIARY
68 Handbag : PURSE
69 Thing, in legalese : RES
70 Hub : NEXUS
71 It’s a good thing : ASSET
DOWN
1 Most secure : SAFEST
2 First game of the season : OPENER
3 On the hook : LIABLE
4 Fluctuate : VARY
5 Treebeard or Beechbone, in Middle-earth : ENT
6 Greets with deference : BOWS TO
7 Sch. whose mascot is Mike the Tiger : LSU
8 Bouncy castle filler : AIR
9 Netting : MESH
10 Huge tract of land : ESTATE
11 Recouped, as an investment : MADE BACK
12 Paragons : EPITOMES
13 Sops up : ABSORBS
15 Money in Mexico : PESO
18 “As if!” : HAH!
23 Lionhearted : VALIANT
25 Organizers of book fairs, for short : PTAS
26 “I’m buying!” : ON ME
27 Tuck away for later : STASH
30 Like some lions and elephants : ASIATIC
32 Despise : HATE
34 Novak Djokovic or Nikola Jokic, by birth : SERB
35 Bend over : STOOP
38 Go over the line? : REHEARSE
39 “If I had to estimate …” : AT A GUESS
40 Winter frost : HOAR
41 Actor McGregor : EWAN
42 Cocky walk : SWAGGER
46 “Little Shop of Horrors” lyricist Howard : ASHMAN
47 Curiosity and Perseverance, e.g. : ROVERS
49 Good things to dress in when it’s cold : LAYERS
50 “Relax, soldier!” : AT EASE
51 End of a sonnet, often : SESTET
54 Wee : TINY
55 Voluminous ref. : OED
58 Spot for an icicle : EAVE
60 Cassowary relatives : EMUS
63 Cereal with the slogan “Kid-tested. Parent-approved” : KIX
64 Mer contents : EAU
65 Belgian town known for its mineral baths : SPA
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