NYT Crossword Answers 11/30/24

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Across Clues

• 1 Handle of a knifeHAFT
• 5 “And ??”SOWHAT
• 11 “Say ?”HERESATHOUGHT
• 14 Haughty self-important questionDOYOUKNOWWHOIAM
• 16 Boast in a 1987 Michael Jackson hitIMBAD
• 17 Airport transports, perhapsTRAMS
• 18 Export from JamaicaSKA
• 19 “Nature always ___ the colors of the spirit”: Ralph Waldo EmersonWEARS
• 20 Petite ___AMIE
• 21 Number of fingers on dos manosDIEZ
• 22 Recipe fig.AMT
• 23 Be all in a tizzyFRET
• 24 ComplicatedMESSY
• 25 Ready to rinse, sayLATHERED
• 28 SharedJOINT
• 29 Cooks up, so to speakIDEATES
• 30 Horse race measuresLENGTHS
• 32 Went wrongERRED
• 33 Painting technique in which the artist applies new paint atop a just-painted layerWETONWET
• 34 Etc., etc.ABBRS
• 35 Longtime candy company based in San FranciscoSEES
• 36 Color akin to amarilloORO
• 37 Cart for the Budweiser Clydesdales, e.g.DRAY
• 38 SpeckWHIT
• 39 Termite, e.g.BORER
• 41 Fired (up), in old slangHET
• 42 Japanese game using pentagonal piecesSHOGI
• 43 Jack ___, Best Supporting Actor nominee for 1940’s “The Great Dictator”OAKIE
• 44 Fateful encounterDATEWITHDESTINY
• 47 Where cold cases are frequently openedDELICATESSENS
• 48 Nearly every third baseman and shortstop in M.L.B. historyRIGHTY
• 49 Sign of hungerPANG

Vertical Clues

• 1 At-home distraction?HEYBATTERBATTER
• 2 Like the crowd after a buzzer beater, sayAROAR
• 3 QuarrelsFEUDS
• 4 Sound accompanying a shake of the headTSK
• 5 Attacked, as a castleSTORMED
• 6 “Hang on a second ?”OHWAIT
• 7 Request to be impressedWOWME
• 8 Expressions of befuddlementHUHS
• 9 SinceAGO
• 10 Breakup lineTHISISNTWORKING
• 11 End result of a starterHOMEMADEBREAD
• 12 The so-called “heart of the scorpion” in the night skyANTARES
• 13 Assumes controlTAKESTHEREINS
• 14 Holiday honoring Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of fortuneDIWALI
• 15 Hard to navigateMAZY
• 21 Stoop (to)DEIGN
• 23 Mr. Rogers, to his neighborsFRED
• 24 Prefix from the Greek for “alone”MONO
• 26 Styles of singingHARRY
• 27 Hot times in la citéETES
• 28 Leaves in a hurry, informallyJETS
• 30 It flows where the wind blowsLEETIDE
• 31 One of 11 for Big BenSTOREY
• 33 Like an important decisionWEIGHTY
• 34 Reason one might get extended time on the PSATADHD
• 35 Tried to hitSHOTAT
• 38 “___ is it?”WHICH
• 39 Nova precederBOSSA
• 40 Like some horse feedOATEN
• 42 GulpSWIG
• 45 “___ and the Thirteenth Confession” (Laura Nyro album)ELI
• 46 Subject of a ganzfeld experiment, in briefESP