New York Times, Friday, August 19, 2022 Crossword Solutions

New York Times – Aug 19 2022

Clues Answers
‘Let me be frank …’ IWONTMINCEWORDS
‘Oh, just stop!’ IVEHADIT
Acted sketchy? DREW
As opposed to UNLIKE
Author of the six-book poem ‘Fasti’ OVID
Be hot and bothered FUSS
Be up BAT
Big name in sandals TEVA
Big purveyor of frozen desserts TCBY
Big scene ADO
Bigwig in the admissions dept.? STPETER
Central part of town: Abbr MAINST
Certification letters USDA
Cries for attention HEYS
Dawn ONSET
Devil-may-care RASH
Drags TOKES
Dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter CERES
Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Desire Under the ___’ ELMS
Flying INMIDAIR
Former British colony whose national flag includes the Union Jack FIJI
Freshly ANEW
From which we get ‘Hakuna matata’ SWAHILI
Go for a bite, say EATOUT
Green sort INGENUE
Have a target ASPIRE
He wrote ‘All good things are wild and free’ THOREAU
Ill-suited UNFIT
Involving a give-and-take TWOWAY
It might slowly grow on you BEARD
It’s not your fault LETSERVE
Jazz great Evans GIL
Kicking and screaming, often GERUNDS
Knocks dead SLAYS
L.A. and N.Y.C. are each represented in it twice NBA
Clues Answers
Leave stunned, in a way TASE
Like casting Michael Keaton in ‘Birdman’ as an actor who used to play a superhero META
Like policies prohibited by Title IX SEXIST
Like some enemies SWORN
Like Venus vis-à-vis Serena Williams OLDER
Literally, ‘sulfur island’ IWOJIMA
Many fire dept. members, by training EMTS
Maximally neat COOLEST
Member of high society? POTUSER
Mideast capital RIAL
One in a state of disbelief ATHEIST
Opera daughter of Amonasro AIDA
Part of a cup LIP
Part of YOLO ONCE
Politician’s platform DAIS
Projecting front PROW
Putdown to a klutz, in dated slang SMOOTHMOVEEXLAX
Races, in a way REVS
Runs up and down? SCALES
Russian ___ (iconic restaurant near New York’s Central Park) TEAROOM
Scorcher HOTONE
Sea that’s fed by the Jordan River GALILEE
See 25-Down BOHR
Selfish demand MEFIRST
Shelter from attack FOXHOLE
Shot TRY
Something to shoot for PAR
Striped cat TABBY
The drinks are on me! BARMENU
They move around in orbits EYES
They’re open to change TIPJARS
Unfading FAST
What makes you question everything you know? JEOPARDY
With 5-Down, Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in atomic theory NIELS
Writer who founded Objectivism RAND

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