NY Times Crossword Answers 13 Sep 24, Friday

Complete List of Clues/Answers

Across

1 What jackknives can help to carve : ABS
4 “That’s fair” : VALID
9 Account of a wild night out? : TAB
12 Fail, with “out” : CRAP …
14 Site sieged by Santa Anna : ALAMO
15 Cross : SORE
16 Cob, e.g. : MALE
17 What’s often made by doctors : SIX FIGURES
19 Together : EN MASSE
21 Vacuous : INANE
22 “Actually, forget I asked” : DON’T ANSWER THAT
26 Like meetings of the U.N. General Assembly : ANNUAL
27 Group of zombies : HORDE
28 Blowout : PARTY
29 Gets high on a kite : PARASAILS
33 Sch. in Ypsilanti whose mascot is an eagle, not another large bird : EMU
34 Bad thing to be out of : SORTS
35 Zip : NIL
36 Extraterrestrial menace in 5-Down : XENOMORPH
39 Comic Gillis : SHANE
41 Murphy’s co-star in “48 Hrs.” : NOLTE
42 Went after : CHASED
43 Response to not getting the reference? : CITATION NEEDED
47 Put into effect : ENACT
48 Sources of high-quality wool : ALPACAS
50 Dynamic stance : ACTION POSE
54 No more : GONE
55 Went after, in a way : SUED
56 At this point : SO FAR
57 At some point : ONCE
58 Make a gaffe : ERR
59 How Vin Diesel was cast in “The Fast and the Furious,” you might say : APTLY
60 Ottoman setting : DEN

Down

1 Summit : ACME
2 Dumpster or zipper, originally : BRAND NAME
3 Boon for grizzly bears : SALMON RUN
4 One doing the lord’s work : VASSAL
5 Sci-fi franchise since 1979 : ALIEN
6 Laissez-faire : LAX
7 Global lending org. : IMF
8 Enthusiastic assent : DO I!
9 Numbers 1 through 36 are found in it : TORAH
10 Where some banners are hung : ARENA
11 Under siege : BESET
13 Bit of foam, perhaps : PEANUT
15 Beverage steeped in bright daylight : SUN TEA
18 Encircles : GIRDS
20 Not take off : STAY
23 Improve, as an argument : SHARPEN
24 Concern for an antiquer : WORTH
25 They increase with blown saves, for short : ERAS
26 Summit : APEX
29 ___-Novo, capital of Benin : PORTO
30 “Be right with you” : IN A SECOND
31 Cotton-Eyed Joe, e.g. : LINE DANCE
32 ___ dog : SLED
34 Most arias : SOLI
37 Tripping : ON ACID
38 Minnesota’s is French and California’s is Greek : MOTTO
39 “Old ___,” country standard performed by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley : SHEP
40 Attempted, with “at” : HAD A GO …
42 Food that’s roughly 95% water : CELERY
43 Halt : CEASE
44 Rack up : INCUR
45 Eyed food, informally : TATER
46 Nosy? : NASAL
49 A good way to feel : SEEN
51 Org. whose official number of employees is unknown to the public : NSA
52 Word with rock or Rocks : POP …
53 O’er and o’er : OFT