New York Times Crossword Answers October 11, 2024

Author: Billy Bratton
Editor: Joel Fagliano

Across
Make something possible, so to speak PAVETHEWAY
Celebratory dance JIG
Question from someone bursting through the door AMITOOLATE
Musician’s pitch? DEMO
Builders of pyramids, perhaps CONARTISTS
If not ELSE
Venture (to) TRY
Island home of a goat known as the kri-kri CRETE
Bits of fiction TALES
Dish topped with lime, basil and hoisin sauce PHO
Online provocateur, in slang EDGELORD
Like some watermelons and tennis players SEEDED
Female dog portrayed by nine different male dogs LASSIE
Pro side YEAS
High 90s, say APLUS
Weeding tool HOE
German beer historically consumed by monks BOCK
“The ___ of the System” (David Foster Wallace’s first novel) BROOM
-Across, e.g. SOUP
Taylor Swift’s “___ Song” OUR
Shells out for dinner, say PASTA
Makes a pick OPTS
Low tie ONEALL
What hilarity often does, it’s said ENSUES
Superhero alter ego for Kathy Kane BATWOMAN
“___ be my pleasure!” ITD
😡 😡 😡 IMMAD
Was downright awful STANK
Sound from a pointer ARF
Smell something fierce REEK
Catcher of drops RAINBARREL
Feast DINE
“False!” THATISALIE
Run after R STU
Setting indicated by a bell with a slash SILENTMODE
Down
Diplomatic success PACT
___ patriae (Latin for “patriotism”) AMOR
Ivy descriptor VINY
Concourse info, in brief ETA
Items wielded by angry mobs TORCHES
Drag participant? HOTROD
Human rights activist Wiesel ELIE
Underachiever’s issue WASTEDPOTENTIAL
Called out on Instagram, informally ATTED
Consent cue YES
They’re set for a night of drinking JELLOSHOTS
“No, really!” IMSERIOUS
Prepares for a bomb GOESDEEP
Hands out DEALS
Array on a trolley TEAS
Max PEAK
Lugubrious GLUM
What might have sandwiches under wraps? SECRETMENU
All ___ EARS
“I’ll do whatever” YOUNAMEIT
Floated sum LOAN
Fans that are hardly keeping cool BOOBIRDS
Skin soother BALM
Went in the high 90s, say SPED
Drag one’s feet PLOD
Southern hip-hop duo with the #1 hit “Ms. Jackson” OUTKAST
Not out AWAKE
Penalty box, in hockey slang SINBIN
Competitor of Kirin ASAHI
Alternative to blinds ANTE
Janis’s cartoon partner ARLO
Super Bowl-winning coach Andy REID
Become a fugitive FLEE
Some football linemen: Abbr. RTS
Force (through) RAM