NYT Crossword Puzzle for September 30, 2023: Check Answers And Explanations

The complete answer to the NY Times September 30 2023 Crossword puzzle is shown below.

Across Clues:-

 One who’s left holding the bag?CADDIE
 Dessert with layers
SPUMONI
 Like roughly one-eighth of the U.S. population
AFRICANAMERICAN
 The Haitian Revolution and the Aponte Conspiracy of 1812, e.g.SLAVEREBELLIONS
 Took a hit
TOKED
 Where to make one’s voice heard, with “the”POLLS
 Contemporary artist Carrie ___ Weems
MAE
 Fleece “wearer”EWE
 Esther of “Good Times”ROLLE
 A word before we forget?LEST
 Detective story?ALIBI
 James Clavell best seller “___-Pan”TAI
 Tabbies, e.g.HOUSECATS
 Post-op persona, perhapsNEWME
 Sort who might be testing the watersMARINEBIOLOGIST
 Place
STEAD
 Rock band with the 2023 album “This Stupid World”YOLATENGO
 Org. associated with interceptionsNSA
 Butts (in)NOSES
 Wordle and othersFADS
 Basketball legend ThomasISIAH
 French word in vineyardsCRU
LugAPE
 Music score abbr.CRESC
 Word on either side of “to”ASHES
 Key to understanding ancient history?THEROSETTASTONE
 What you might use to play music on a beach
WIRELESSSPEAKER
 Having down pat
ADEPTAT
 Remittance recipients
PAYEES

Vertical Clues:-

 ___ system
CASTE
 Like water in a stream
AFLOW
 Rapper Aubrey Graham, who’s known professionally by his middle name
DRAKE
 Great fallDIVE
 Like some drinks and injuries
ICED
 Hammer home?EAR
 Be ripeSMELL
 Bit of fish foodPELLET
Things typically copied-and-pasted ? rather than typed manually ? in messagesURL
 Find ___ (Nintendo minigame)MII
 Christmas carol title starterOCOME
 GramsNANAS
 Map of Hawaii, often
INSET
 Modern coinage for someone turned successful through their celebrity parents
NEPOBABY
 Republicans in the 1850s, typically
ABOLITIONISTS
 Hot bed?RICE
 Feudal superiors
LIEGES
 Sherpas, e.g.ASIANS
 Gives, but not for goodLENDS
 Make ___ ofANOTE
 Inits. before Queen ElizabethHMS
 Bit of farm food
OAT
 Suffix with pressURE
 Stand-up comedians, typicallySOLOACTS
 Good thing to have on the recordWIN
 Umami enhancerMSG
 W.W. II combat inits.ETO
 Verbally lose it, with “out”LASH
 Kind of rescue searchAIRSEA
 Certain religious rulingFATWA
 Honeydew producer
APHID
 Inventor of the steel plow
DEERE
 “This is dear mercy, and thou ___ it not”: “Romeo and Juliet”SEEST
 Fail under pressure
CHOKE
 Woman’s name with an accent on its fourth letter
RENEE
 See 57-DownUSERS
 Relative of a fillyCOLT
 In the Red, sayASEA
 “___ alert”STAY
 Title in D.C.: Abbr.REP
 With 50-Down, many people making downloadsAPP