The October 20 2024 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes
You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
Search clue name or clue number.
- Across
- 1a “Yikes!”
- 5a Italian sauce whose name sounds like a French stew
- 9a Last word
- 14a It can bust one’s bracket
- 19a Island west of Komodo National Park
- 20a Privy to
- 21a Call to mind
- 22a 10th of 24
- 23a Marquee at the Tri-Plex mistaken as a promo for … “Godzilla”?
- 26a ___ Island, designated historic site for both New York and New Jersey
- 27a Fantasy football fodder
- 28a Something seen framed in a Zoom background, perhaps
- 29a Honors for David Beckham and Leona Lewis: Abbr.
- 31a Bandmate of Keith for 60+ years
- 32a Hasten, old-style
- 34a Rival of Forbes
- 35a Futuristic microscopic machine
- 37a … “E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial”?
- 43a Essen exclamations
- 45a Bile
- 46a Band whose name is sometimes rendered with a backward B
- 47a Grave words?
- 48a “While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping” poet
- 49a ___ alai
- 50a Sam who directed “Spider-Man”
- 52a D-Day craft: Abbr.
- 53a With 112-Down, a small laugh
- 54a … “Independence Day”?
- 59a Having had a few bites, say
- 60a What this is
- 61a Mediterranean condiment
- 62a “Mon ___!”
- 63a Liturgical vestment
- 65a Center
- 67a At sea
- 71a Suitor of Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera”
- 73a Kind of shell that’s easily broken
- 74a Novelist whose name is synonymous with nightmarish absurdity
- 75a … “Rush Hour”?
- 81a “Devilish” cartoon character
- 82a Publishing V.I.P.s
- 83a Like golden eagles vis-à-vis bald eagles, in the United States
- 84a Unsafe?
- 85a Modern H.R. initiative
- 86a Bryn Mawr grad, e.g.
- 88a Nag
- 89a Connections
- 90a One in a line at a grocery store
- 91a … “Insomnia”?
- 96a Person with attachment issues, perhaps
- 97a “The Strife is ___, the Battle Done” (hymn)
- 98a Detergent brand
- 99a Baja resort town, familiarly
- 101a ___ Sidle, longtime role on “C.S.I.”
- 102a Moving day leftovers
- 104a Overseas refusals
- 108a Holding nothing back
- 110a … “Sex and the City”?
- 113a “Welcome” introduction?
- 114a Texas A&M athlete
- 115a Girl’s name that sounds like two adjacent letters
- 116a Singer Horne
- 117a Mount
- 118a Detritus at the bottom of a bag of bagels
- 119a Variety
- 120a Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
- Down
- 1d Subsides
- 2d Walk way?
- 3d Aquarium growth
- 4d “Check it out, man!”
- 5d Narrow inlet
- 6d Antonio López de Santa ___, three-time president of Mexico
- 7d Finally saw through a deception
- 8d Emasculates
- 9d Ward (off)
- 10d E.R. lines
- 11d 0%
- 12d Japanese art of flower arrangement
- 13d Star in Venus’s orbit?
- 14d Island strings
- 15d Ingredient in some lipsticks, pizza dough and biodiesel
- 16d Cause of a hung jury
- 17d Larger-than-life
- 18d Assignment
- 24d “Really?”
- 25d Marine menace
- 30d Sensitive subject
- 33d Pioneering computer
- 36d Harsh
- 37d From what place
- 38d Actor-turned-policeman Estrada
- 39d Jazz singer Cleo
- 40d Some old PCs
- 41d Ending with teen
- 42d “That’s a ___!” (chemist’s punny observation)
- 43d Garden invader
- 44d Raccoon relative
- 49d Partner of pride
- 50d Small brook
- 51d Illness with chills
- 52d Island rings
- 55d Roil
- 56d Give a lecture, say
- 57d Sported
- 58d Seasoned rice dish
- 63d Listing agent’s condition
- 64d Voting day: Abbr.
- 65d Feature of some English gardens
- 66d “Happy Birthday” writer, sometimes
- 68d Athlete’s out-of-character performance, say
- 69d Lift ticket purchaser
- 70d Unspoken
- 72d Word after hidden or political
- 73d Calorie-rich cake
- 74d Apt name for a veterinarian
- 75d Ankle bones
- 76d Sky shade
- 77d Claim on an egg carton
- 78d Woodworking tool
- 79d Tennille of Captain & Tennille
- 80d Charlotte ___ (dessert)
- 81d Shooting marble
- 87d Aide-___ (mnemonic device)
- 88d Nobility
- 89d “Let’s do this thing!”
- 90d Creator of colorful crafts
- 92d Woolly pack animals
- 93d Origin
- 94d Hexad
- 95d Rubik of puzzle cube fame
- 99d Coral islets
- 100d Quite often
- 102d Sweeties, informally
- 103d Barbershop sound
- 105d Barely made, with “out”
- 106d Poke bowl ingredient
- 107d Overcommunicate, say
- 109d ___ Low, famed English pirate
- 111d Secreted
- 112d See 53-Across