New York Times Answers - Friday, 15th October 2021 There are 34 across clues and 36 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 15th October 2021. View the answers below.. Also try..All New York Times AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Enthusiastic assentAMENAAcross 5: Certain serviceMASSAAcross 5: Certain serviceMASS.AAcross 9: Packs (down)TAMPSAAcross 14: Important leadership skillFORESIGHTAAcross 16: Classic neo-grotesque typefaceARIALAAcross 17: "Losing some illusions ... perhaps to acquire others," per Virginia WoolfGROWINGUPAAcross 18: Gloomy and drabDINGYAAcross 19: Cause of an early lead, maybeHOTSTARTAAcross 20: Like a spitballWADDEDAAcross 21: Darth Vader's childhood nicknameANIAAcross 22: Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit"JOYCEAAcross 24: Sticky stuffGOOAAcross 25: Hardly mainstreamNICHEAAcross 28: Pluto, e.g.ORBAAcross 29: Sudden sensationPANGAAcross 30: Cutesy "I beg your pardon?"EXSQUEEZEMEAAcross 34: "What a shocker"BIGSURPRISEAAcross 35: "Heaven forbid!"GODIHOPENOTAAcross 36: Singer MitchellJONIAAcross 37: Shapiro of NPRARIAAcross 38: John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to get one (at age 97)NOBELAAcross 42: Travel guess, for shortETAAAcross 43: Joyous songPAEANAAcross 46: "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" musicianENOAAcross 47: Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stageTOFFEEAAcross 50: ApproachHEADINTOAAcross 53: Tell allSPILLAAcross 54: Strutting one's stuffWORKINGITAAcross 55: Kind of moment worth recordingKODAKAAcross 56: Xenomorphs, e.g.ALIENRACEAAcross 57: Cart contentsITEMSAAcross 58: What air is not for an anaerobeNEEDAAcross 59: Looked at suspiciouslyEYEDDDown 1: Throw on the couchAFGHANDDown 2: Angel said to have visited Joseph SmithMORONIDDown 3: Like shunga woodblock printsEROTICDDown 4: What breaks as it first comes outNEWSDDown 5: "The Pinkprint" rapperMINAJDDown 6: Belligerent, slangilyAGGRODDown 7: "Put a sock in it!"SHUTYOURPIEHOLEDDown 8: 500 letters?S.T.P.DDown 8: 500 letters?STPDDown 9: "I did it!"TADADDown 10: Like MarsARIDDDown 11: Psychological trickMIND GAMEDDown 12: It's just the beginning of the storyPAGEONEDDown 13: Sneaky sortSLYDOGDDown 15: Model (for)SITDDown 20: Composer Anton who used the 12-tone techniqueWEBERNDDown 23: Main component in the Chinese street food jianbingCREPEDDown 26: Children's classic originally written in GermanHEIDIDDown 27: Nov. 11 honoreeEXGIDDown 29: Sauce whose name derives from "pound" in ItalianPESTODDown 31: Double curveS-SHAPEDDown 32: Crowdsourced Q&A siteQUORADDown 33: The Promised LandZIONDDown 34: Honest-to-goodnessBONA FIDEDDown 35: Fall apartGO TO POTDDown 36: Zippy resort rentalJETSKIDDown 39: Joint application?BENGAYDDown 40: TemptENTICEDDown 41: Took inventory?LOOTEDDDown 44: Home with a viewAERIEDDown 45: Unembellished, as the truthNAKEDDDown 48: Bit of deceptionFLAMDDown 49: Lodge groupELKSDDown 51: Loud bugling, e.g.DINDDown 52: ConcerningINREDDown 54: Appearing ill or exhausted, sayWAN