Friday September 20, 2024 NYT Crossword Answers 🎯

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The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Friday September 20, 2024 is displayed below.



ACROSS CLUES


1 Philosophy influenced by Aristotle's concept of the Unmoved Mover THEISM
7 Four-year-old in pig tales? PEPPA
12 Dog breed with a blue-black tongue SHARPEI
13 Strains EXERTS
15 Members of the family Passeridae SPARROWS
16 Upgrade, as a backsplash RETILE
17 Some flats CONDOS
18 Drenches SOPS
20 "Wowzers!" MAN
21 "The Tin Drum" protagonist OSKAR
22 Harshly criticizes RIPS
23 Pilot productions? PENS
24 Gunty who wrote "The Rabbit Hutch," winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction TESS
25 Reunion attendee AUNT
26 You might sleep on it SERTA
27 Industry that emerged in the 1970s GAMING
29 Flip LOSEIT
30 Windy flight? SPIRALSTAIRCASE
33 Lays waste to HAVOCS
34 Option for a backpacker HOSTEL
35 Apt name for a successful crypto investor? ERICH
36 Farmer's market sight TENT
37 Sub TEMP
40 Safe place BANK
41 Mock JAPE
42 Brazilian soccer club named for an explorer, familiarly VASCO
43 Director Lee ANG
44 Manufacturer of minifigures LEGO
45 Like you and me MORTAL
46 Showed sleepiness NODDED
48 New member INITIATE
50 John, in Milan GIANNI
51 Unwelcome sight in musical chairs NOSEATS
52 Twosomes DYADS
53 Actress Bella of Disney's "Shake It Up" THORNE

DOWN CLUES


1 Part of the Detroit Lions schedule since 1934 THANKSGIVINGDAY
2 Extremely solid HARDASAROCK
3 What an "X" might mark ERROR
4 Market events, for short IPOS
5 Wrap (up) SEW
6 Failing to get it MISSINGTHEPOINT
7 Lawbreakers, informally PERPS
8 People for whom a "no contact" rule might apply EXES
9 ___ food PET
10 A lot to like? PRIMEREALESTATE
11 Ancient civilization doomed by greed, in myth ATLANTIS
12 "What if ...?," informally SPOSE
14 Feeling SENSATE
15 Alexander Graham Bell, by birth SCOT
19 Elect OPT
22 Lines on a ski map RUNS
23 Kind of diet high in omega-3 fatty acids PESCETARIAN
25 Bothers AILS
26 Excel function SORT
28 Kind of number represented by the equation M = v/c MACH
29 Honor roll, e.g. LIST
30 A "whole" thing SHEBANG
31 "Being slightly ___ is like being slightly pregnant — it tends to get worse": Molly Ivins PARANOID
32 Battleship corner AONE
36 Size indicator TAG
38 Exams with a highest possible score of 528, for short MCATS
39 Vault opener? POLE
41 Plural form decried by staunch "Star Wars" fans JEDIS
42 Ticket picker VOTER
44 Advance LEND
45 Paste with an umami taste MISO
47 Kind of test that's impossible to study for? DNA
49 Japanese art form whose name means "skill" NOH