New York Times Crossword Answers October 01, 2024

Author: Kevin Curry and Jeff Chen
Editor: Joel Fagliano

Across
Stuff in Santa’s footprints ASH
Exchanged for cash, in a way PAWNED
West Coast wine valley NAPA
Buffett or Cook, for short CEO
Words after “Because” in a parent’s explanation ISAYSO
“Metamorphoses” poet OVID
A.F.C. South team (“Look in the lake! It’s … ah, never mind”) TENNESSEETITANS
Triumphant shout HOORAH
Spot for abs or apple seeds CORE
Time spent in a seat TERM
Investigative journalism (“What was that in the sea?! I must be imagining things”) MUCKRAKING
Staggering this way and that AREEL
Fe, to chemists IRON
/16 of a gallon CUP
Napoleon Dynamite’s best friend PEDRO
Asia’s disappearing ___ Sea ARAL
Creates, as a goal SETS
Imperial unit of volume (“There’s another one! I swear he just slipped into those trees …”) CUBICFOOT
Agile SPRY
Good old-fashioned butt-kicking ROUT
Corporate emblems LOGOS
Rage IRE
Place for ham-handed workers? DELI
Window dressing DRAPE
Professional proofreader (“Over there, in the snow! That had to be something, right?!”) COPYEDITOR
Frankenstein’s assistant IGOR
Smooth-talking GLIB
Life forms BEINGS
Pseudoscientist investigating the “sightings” in this puzzle CRYPTOZOOLOGIST
Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” HATE
“Sign us up!” WEREIN
Bear hair FUR
Wally ___, “famous” cookie maker AMOS
Bare minimums LEASTS
“I didn’t need to hear all that!” TMI
Down
Play a part, or a play part ACT
“Now you listen to me …” SEEHERE
Paid homage to HONORED
Santa Monica tourist attraction PIER
Silk-producing region of India ASSAM
Sch. located in St. Louis, not Seattle WASHU
Bill ___, the Science Guy NYE
Compass heading ESE
Pointillism mark DOT
Against the rules NOTOK
Greed AVARICE
Pesto ingredient PINENUT
Many website banners ADS
What the ruthless show NOMERCY
Declaration of determination ICAN
Alternative to a swipe, for a credit card TAP
Lecture tour CIRCUIT
Company that merged with Heinz in 2015 KRAFT
Caramel-filled candy ROLO
Navigation aid that works through satellites, in brief GPS
Gehrig in Cooperstown LOU
Garlicky sauce AIOLI
Saving for later STORING
Born and ___ BRED
Like Father Time OLD
[not my mistake] SIC
“Get with the ___!” PROGRAM
Answer, as an email REPLYTO
Purchase for a white elephant exchange GAGGIFT
North America’s only marsupial OPOSSUM
To be, in Spanish SER
Money owed DEBT
“Yowzers!” YIPES
Orchestra woodwinds OBOES
Ignited again RELIT
They’re not free of charge IONS
“___-ching!” CHA
Pretentious friend of Winnie-the-Pooh OWL
Last section in a dictionary ZEE
” … boy ___ girl?” ORA
Numerical prefix that sounds like a verb TRI