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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