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NYT Crossword Answers for September 30, 2024.

Alexander Liebeskind opens our solving week.

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MONDAY PUZZLE — One thing I was surprised to learn from the puzzle editors when I took this job is just how hard it is to create a top-quality Monday puzzle. Constructors who have a puzzle published in The New York Times are, in nearly all cases, top-quality wordsmiths who have a command of the English language that most of us mortals can barely dream of. So it can be tough for those people to turn it down a bit so that the rest of us can have some fun.

Once I learned that, I gained a new appreciation for Mondays. The approachable fill and the clever cluing keep me coming back for these puzzles week after week. Take a moment to appreciate the relaxed solving experience of a good Monday puzzle like this one. The week only gets harder from here.

I thought this puzzle’s theme was pretty straightforward; the theme answers are all phrases that include names of notes of payment (STATEMENT and CHECK, for example). I found the fill to be supremely smooth, but there were a couple of spots that I thought might trip people up. I’ll cover them in the next section.

27A. The AMHERST area is home to the Five College Consortium, whose members are the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and my alma mater, Hampshire College.

11D. Not a drop as in one of water, but to drop as in fall. The answer is SINK.

60D. PDA is an abbreviation for public display of affection.

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