The New Yorker - Feb 17 2020

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Clues Answers
"Smokey and the Bandit" props CBRADIOS
"The Country ___" (Burns poem) LASS
"___ hath drowned more men than the sea": Thomas Fuller WINE
1972 rock hit whose second half is instrumental LAYLA
Actor Peter of "Arsenic and Old Lace" LORRE
Admitted LETIN
Ancient civilization believed to have created the first alphabet PHOENICIA
Après-ski order HOTCOCOA
Attractive thing MAGNET
Bagatelle No. 25 dedicatee ELISE
Boring apparatus OILRIG
College team with an elephant logo CRIMSONTIDE
Computer system designed to imitate brain function NEURALNET
Con artist's œuvre SCAMS
Council of Elrond's location in "The Lord of the Rings" RIVENDELL
Does some landscaping SODS
Doesn't get used GOESTOWASTE
Dramatic advance in progress LEAP
Experienced TASTED
Fingerboard features FRETS
Fort ___ (most populous U.S. Army installation) BRAGG
Fully earn a one-star review STINK
Gelatinous garnish ASPIC
Good pitch's result SALE
Haunted-house hangings WEBS
Hunts for SEEKS
In the midst of AMONG
Industrious Aesop character ANT
It may put you out SLEEPAID
Kristen played her in "Twilight" BELLA
Lads who come a-courting SWAINS
Like ghost towns ABANDONED
Make progress GAIN
Clues Answers
Member of the fam BRO
Modern bookkeepers? EREADERS
Natural role model CLASSACT
Not so UNTRUE
Old-timey headache application ICEBAG
One counted in the Book of Numbers ISRAELITE
Pathetic bunglers SADSACKS
Place to hang one's hat ABODE
Pulled off DID
Reduces to a pulp MASHES
Salad-dressing brand KENS
Saved on supper, say ATEIN
She played Cheryl in "Wild" REESE
Shopping-cart addition ITEM
Short on zest BLAND
Skirt style pioneered by Dior ALINE
Split second EYEBLINK
Surname in an oft-repeated "The Princess Bride" speech MONTOYA
Swedish pop band once named Tech Noir ACEOFBASE
Take a quick look CHECK
Taunted BAITED
Term of endearment, or a song on the White Album HONEYPIE
Tex-Mex dining chain CHILIS
They may offer extensions SALONS
Tight braid CORNROW
Undergrad course of study that might include rhetoric PRELAW
Unshowy earrings STUDS
Wade in Cooperstown BOGGS
William and Mary's successor ANNE
Word reduced to a letter by texters ARE
Yaks and oxen BOVINES
You might drink it dry MARTINI
Yuletide product that the company Brite Star has a near-monopoly on TINSEL