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New York Times Answers - Thursday, 2nd October 2008

There are 37 across clues and 37 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Thursday, 2nd October 2008. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: In a poem, it "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"
AAcross 6: Sing like Mel Tormé
AAcross 10: Use cue cards
AAcross 14: Slightly aheadUPONE
AAcross 15: Part of a military band
AAcross 16: ___ dixitIPSE
AAcross 17: Anxious baseball player at the plate?BATTWIRLER
AAcross 19: Talk like Daffy
AAcross 20: Supermarket bagful
AAcross 21: Great literature it's not
AAcross 22: Wallpaper and such
AAcross 23: "Big Sur" writer, 1962
AAcross 25: Worst in the worst way
AAcross 27: Sign above a luau buffet?PICKYOURPOIS
AAcross 29: Working factory, e.g.
AAcross 32: Actress Popplewell of "The Chronicles of Narnia"
AAcross 33: ___ in victory
AAcross 34: Hogwarts stick
AAcross 35: High-school disrupters
AAcross 37: Big party
AAcross 38: ___ premiumATA
AAcross 39: Out of order
AAcross 40: Broad valleys
AAcross 41: Land of laughs?YUKTERRITORY
AAcross 45: Horace who founded the New York Tribune
AAcross 46: They may be seen on slides
AAcross 50: Certain resident of YemenADENI
AAcross 51: Ready
AAcross 52: Home of Sault Ste. Marie: Abbr.ONT
AAcross 53: It may be held at a 39-Down
AAcross 54: Flood of ideas?BRAINSURGE
AAcross 57: Observer
AAcross 58: Barn young 'un
AAcross 59: Where to see "bombs bursting"INAIR
AAcross 60: Flat soundSSSS
AAcross 61: One who wants you to put away everything he sets out
AAcross 62: Two-time Time Man of the Year (and a hint to 17-, 27-, 41- and 54-Across)
DDown 1: 1980s craze starterRUBIK
DDown 2: Quickly
DDown 3: Campaign target
DDown 4: Suffix with insistENT
DDown 5: Preinterview purchase, maybeNEWSUIT
DDown 6: Lit, as a match
DDown 7: Zealot's group
DDown 8: Five-spotABE
DDown 9: Contents of some pits
DDown 10: ProvokeRILEUP
DDown 11: "War and Peace," e.g.EPICNOVEL
DDown 12: Business partner
DDown 13: Takes the starch out of
DDown 18: Product promoted as having both "beauty" and "brains"IMAC
DDown 22: Nickelodeon's explorerDORA
DDown 24: Newspaper piece
DDown 25: Chinese secret society
DDown 26: Directs
DDown 28: One-named New Age musicianYANNI
DDown 29: Road trip eventsAWAYGAMES
DDown 30: Popular dates for datesSATURDAYS
DDown 31: Loser at the dice table
DDown 35: Blood
DDown 36: Out of whack
DDown 37: Actress DunawayFAYE
DDown 39: Shop with 53-Across
DDown 40: Pays a visitDROPSIN
DDown 42: Choir section
DDown 43: Duty
DDown 44: Harbinger
DDown 47: Powdered cleaning agent
DDown 48: Hospital procedure, for shortANGIO
DDown 49: Draconian
DDown 51: Washed out
DDown 54: Abbr. atop some e-mailsBCC
DDown 55: Cheering word
DDown 56: Sea urchin, at a sushi bar
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