New York Times Crossword SolutionsAugust 20, 2022

Across

Clues and Answers

Pauses in discussion	UMS
“I Am ___,” best-selling autobiography of 2013	MALALA
Foods that can help boost testosterone levels	FIGS
Some discount offerings	PROMOCODES
Reserve group, in brief?	OPEC
Moving film?	SHRINKWRAP
Words before and after “deal”	ORNO
Enemy organization in Marvel Comics	HYDRA
Truck part	BED
Azalée ou chrysanthème	FLEUR
Bug-eyed toon with a big red tongue	ODIE
Part of an oil well, maybe	CAP
Add to the kitty	TOSSIN
___ Foundation (nonprofit with a history going back to 1984)	TED
Locale for a pin	MAT
Military leader of old	SHOGUN
Demand for honesty	DONTLIETOME
Expression in an uncomfortable situation	FORCEDSMILE
“No need to elaborate”	IUNDERSTAND
___-eyed (naïvely idealistic)	STARRY
Default avatar on Twitter, once	EGG
It’s raised by the best	BAR
Browns, in a way	SAUTES
Sanskrit honorific	SRI
“Faster!”	MOVE
Brought on board	HIRED
Buddy	MAC
Sunk one’s teeth into?	SAWED
“Why haven’t you …?” retort	IDID
Sign outside a hospital room, maybe	NOVISITORS
Alternative to a finger poke	PSST
What Kleenexes are created for	ONETIMEUSE
M.L.B. star Juan	SOTO
“Oh, hallelujah!”	GODYES
Garden activity	TEA

Ultimate result	UPSHOT
Literary character who “alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil”	MRHYDE
Louche	SORDID
___ Van Duyn, 1990s U.S. poet laureate	MONA
Comic strip cry	ACK
Plight of the 1%?	LOWBATTERY
Pro pitcher	ADREP
Help for a case	LEAD
Shakespeare’s “pretty worm of Nilus”	ASP
It’s not what it looks like	FOOLSGOLD
“It seems to me …”	IPRESUME
Straight up	GENUINE
Hold in contempt	SCORN
Embroil	MIRE
Something you hope to find while rock climbing	FOOTING
People born on the 4th of July, e.g.	CANCERS
Holy trinity?	THEMAGI
King Arthur’s slayer	MORDRED
Barcelona or Belfast, to Boston	SISTERCITY
Provided with funds	DONATEDTO
Church inits.	LDS
One who’s always thinking ahead?	FUTURIST
Not-very-satisfying explanation	ISAIDSO
Leave gracefully	BOWOUT
Disinclined	AVERSE
It has a significant part in the Bible	REDSEA
Places for cabins	SHIPS
On a hard disk, say	SAVED
What “#” means in chess notation	MATE
Prefix with -cratic	MONO
Noted virtual community	SIMS
Drink that can be spiced … or spiked	NOG
German pronoun	SIE

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