New York Times - Dec 4 2019

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Clues Answers
'As you can tell from these few examples, Bings are better than maraschinos' CHERRYPICKING
'Ask ___ Landers' ANN
'Expanding the bleachers isn't enough. We need to relocate the whole stadium' MOVINGGOALPOSTS
'If we let our kids go sledding, what's next? Extreme skiing?' SLIPPERYSLOPE
'Nolo contendere,' e.g PLEA
'Scarecrow thinks the only thing one needs is a brain. Not so!' STRAWMANFALLACY
'What'd I tell you?' SEE
Actress Winger DEBRA
Ambient musician Brian ENO
Animal known to crack shells with rocks OTTER
Anthem contraction OER
Appliance company acquired by Raytheon in 1965 AMANA
Big displays at natural history museums, informally TREXES
Birthstone that shares a first letter with its month OPAL
Boss of the Oompa-Loompas WONKA
Breezy AIRY
Campus in Troy, N.Y RPI
Choice in orange juice PULP
Cigarette ingredient TAR
College app attachment ESSAY
College app attachment, informally REC
Cut the lawn MOW
Czech capital PRAGUE
Defeat TOP
Edible fungi MORELS
Elvis's middle name ARON
Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium ASHE
Equatorial Guinea is its least populous member, for short OPEC
Even a little bit ANY
Extinct relative of an ostrich MOA
Fancy fur MINK
Gives weapons to ARMS
Goods for sale WARES
Grand Ole ___ OPRY
Group concerned with things that are NSFW? OSHA
Grp. whose alphabet starts Alfa, Bravo, Charlie .. NATO
H5N1, by another name BIRDFLU
Has too much, for short ODS
Clues Answers
Head in a classic Hasbro toy POTATO
Henson who created the Muppets JIM
Home of Machu Picchu PERU
How Odysseus traveled AFAR
Ideology ISM
Joking remarks JESTS
Jr. and sr YRS
Land between Uganda and Burundi RWANDA
Leave the launchpad BLASTOFF
Light side YANG
Like Brie vis-à-vis Gruyère cheese SOFTER
Like meadows GRASSY
Long-running fashion magazine ELLE
Mah-jongg pieces TILES
Major home-improvement chain founder LOWE
Metaphor for a segmented market PIE
Middle name of Sean Lennon ONO
Milk source UDDER
Nonstop ONEND
Ooze SEEP
Part of a show that may say 'Previously on ...' INTRO
Poem that begins 'Once upon a midnight dreary' THERAVEN
Show that asked 'Who shot J.R.?' DALLAS
Skating feat AXEL
Sleep disrupter, in a fairy tale PEA
Snoops (around) NOSES
Solemn agreement PACT
Step on it! SOLE
Tampa Bay players, familiarly BUCS
Things you can pay YouTube to avoid ADS
Tibetan monks LAMAS
Type ILK
University of Maine's home ORONO
View from behind the Lincoln Memorial POTOMAC
Where the Marx Brothers famously spent a night OPERA
Young fellow LAD
___ rally PEP
___ wrench ALLEN