New York Times - Dec 20 2019

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Clues Answers
'Ah, yes, I'd been meaning to tell you ...' ABOUTTHAT
'Blastoff!' preceder ONE
'Crime and Punishment' heroine SONYA
'Let me in!' OPENTHEDOOR
'Really, now? Really!?' CANYOUNOT
'Whip It' band DEVO
'X-Men' film spinoff starring Hugh Jackman LOGAN
1/2 vis-à-vis 1/3, say EVE
1970s first lady BETTY
50 Cent's '___ Control' OUTTA
Absolutely destroy RAVAGE
Actress whose full name can be made from the letters of DO RE MI DEMIMOORE
Alternative to white RYE
Best Play and others ESPYS
Big canned soup brand PROGRESSO
Boomsticks? TNT
Boost at the gym ENERGYBAR
Bugs ANNOYS
Bye line? TATA
Column in a baseball box score RUNS
Congressional campaign SENATEBID
Country with hundreds of islands in the Red Sea ERITREA
Critic's award STAR
Difficult journeys SLOGS
Drain SAP
Early illustrator of Uncle Sam NAST
Electrify ROUSE
Elite eight IVIES
Event for which participants may take the floor SITIN
Features on topographic maps CONTOURS
Former world capital whose name means 'capital city' KYOTO
Frequent subject of headlines in The Onion AREAMAN
Grand Prix site MONACO
Greek 'Mother of the Gods' RHEA
Hardly try anymore COAST
Hindu love god KAMA
Home of the South by Southwest festival AUSTIN
Clues Answers
Homes in the woods DENS
Hoots RIOTS
Hostile look ICYSTARE
In direct competition MANOAMANO
Inedible kind of orange OSAGE
Irritates, with 'on' GRATES
Johnson's predecessor as British P.M MAY
Kendrick of rap LAMAR
Kind of football played indoors ARENA
Largest steel producer in the U.S NUCOR
Left side, informally DEMS
Look after MIND
Nervous witnesses in mystery novels, often REDHERRINGS
No. that's converted for electric cars MPG
Nothing special, with 'the' USUALFARE
Nothing special, with 'the' NORM
Online service introduced in 2004 GMAIL
Org. that shares its HQ with Cyber Command NSA
Part of a dash CARSTEREO
Pestered persistently RODE
Pirates' potables GROGS
Private INNER
Singer Anthony MARC
Site for some celebratory dances ENDZONE
Snacks NOSHES
Some ranch cattle LONGHORNS
Sportscaster Jim NANTZ
This is the way TAO
This might be a bust STATUE
Total mess MARESNEST
Treatment that reduces wrinkles LASERPEEL
Tricks GETS
University near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains FURMAN
Walk-ons, often NONAMES
What 'r' might signify ARE
___ Jahan, leader who commissioned the Taj Mahal SHAH