New York Times - Sep 22 2018

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Clues Answers
'Elektra' composer STRAUSS
'___ 101' (former Nickelodeon sitcom) ZOEY
Actress Hayek SALMA
Certain racing teams CREWS
Childhood home of Grant Wood and Elijah Wood CEDARRAPIDS
City SW of Kansas City IOLA
Comes with BRINGS
Connection concerns, in brief ETAS
Counterpart of an iamb TROCHEE
Crib users CHEATERS
Dance in which 'you bring your knees in tight' THETIMEWARP
Dangerous toy PEASHOOTER
Dinner from the oven ROAST
Dramatic opening ACTI
Eats before dinner? APPETIZER
Emergency key ESC
Exploit DEED
External: Prefix ECT
Fairly PRETTY
Frosty film RIME
Fully accept EMBRACE
Gamble RISK
Garment originally fashionable in the late 1950s SACKDRESS
Gets hitched SAYSIDO
Go down or come up OCCUR
Harden the outside of through cooking CRISPUP
Hearty entree MEATSTEW
Home of the 11,000-foot-deep Cotahuasi Canyon PERU
Italian diminutive suffix ETTA
Jon who wrote and illustrated 'Smart Feller, Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms' AGEE
Julie ___, host of TV's 'Big Brother' CHEN
Least in question SUREST
Clues Answers
Like half a deck RED
Makes tingly, in a way NUMBS
No light amount of work HERCULEANEFFORT
Orchard pests APHIDS
Org. in 2017's 'Dunkirk' RAF
Overseas dissent NAE
Owner of the Cheshire Cat, with 'the' DUCHESS
Photo ___ IDS
Pictures that might make you hungry FOODPORN
Polite reply to Aunt Polly YESM
Polo on the small screen TERI
Problem for a plumber DRIP
Program that analyzes the structure of input PARSER
Renaissance painter Guido RENI
River from the Appalachians PEEDEE
River to the South China Sea MEKONG
Shot contents SERUM
So THUS
Spring arrival ARIES
Subject of many emo songs TEENANGST
Talk show host named in the #MeToo movement CHARLIEROSE
Their checks don't check out KITERS
They typically revolve around steps AAMEETINGS
TV series whose first episode was titled 'Where Is Everybody?' THETWILIGHTZONE
Unaccounted for, briefly MIA
Unappealing trumpet sound BLAT
Way to get around writer's block? PRESSPASS
What laying a king on its side in chess means ICONCEDE
Wine aperitif KIR
Wine shop offering, informally ZIN
___ O'Hara, Martian's host on old TV's 'My Favorite Martian' TIM
___ Zor-El, Supergirl's birth name KARA