New York Times - Aug 23 2020

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Clues Answers
'Fiddlesticks!' DRAT
'Give me a minute' HOLDIT
'Is that really necessary?' MUSTI
'Oklahoma!' aunt ELLER
'One Mic' rapper NAS
'So much for that' IGUESSNOT
'Twelve Days of Christmas' musician who invites sympathy? THEPITIEDPIPER
A collar might hide it NAPE
Affectionate refusal NODEAR
All right SOSO
Angels' opposites BRATS
Angsty genre EMO
Apple variety IMAC
Arundhati ___, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize ROY
B-side to the Beatles' 'Ticket to Ride' YESITIS
Ball of vinegared rice topped with raw fish NIGIRI
Bar freebie COASTER
Basketball player, in old slang CAGER
Bender SPREE
Big name in music streaming SPOTIFY
Big step for a start-up, in brief IPO
Boasts CROWS
Brain wave chart, for short EEG
Bronze that's not winning any awards? FAKETAN
Bug WIRETAP
Busy time at the I.R.S.: Abbr APR
Buzz Lightyear and Woody, e.g TOYS
Canceled out NEGATED
Car sticker fig MSRP
Charge FEE
Classic Isaac Asimov collection of short stories IROBOT
Cocaine and guns, in a Pacino movie? SCARFACERESOURCES
Completely committed ALLIN
Correct AMEND
Creative class ART
Crunchy, green side dish KALESALAD
Decorative pillowcases SHAMS
Dutch brewery AMSTEL
Enjoy the sun BASK
Excel function that uses a calendar EDATE
Express displeasure with on the road HONKAT
Fade away EBB
Focus of 'Ocean's Eleven' HEIST
Former Mideast grp UAR
French Foreign Legion, par exemple ARMEE
G.I. fare MRE
German 'please' BITTE
Ginger, e.g ROOT
Give mom's mom the stink eye? GLAREATGRANDMA
GPS suggestions: Abbr RTES
Gradual deterioration WEAR
Having the least give TAUTEST
Hit show with the series finale 'One for the Road' CHEERS
How some bonds are sold ATPAR
Hummer's instrument KAZOO
Iditarod, for one? AMAZINGDOGRACE
In the same family AKIN
Inc., in London LTD
Infamous emperor NERO
Inner: Prefix ENTO
Intertwine ENLACE
Irish novelist ___ Binchy MAEVE
It helps turn a pond green ALGA
It's sometimes covered in velvet ANTLER
Italian dumplings GNOCCHI
Jackson known as the 'Queen of Gospel' MAHALIA
Juuls and such ECIGS
Land in the so-called 'Roof of the World' NEPAL
Large in scope MACRO
Letting out all the stops to drown out the other instruments? ORGANDOMINATION
Clues Answers
Like most prime numbers ODD
Like this clue META
Longtime home for Terry Gross NPR
Lyre player of myth ERATO
Massive, in poetry ENORM
Meals BOARD
Medical tube STENT
Michelangelo's 'The Creation of ___' ADAM
Middle: Abbr CTR
More scrumptious YUMMIER
Morning ___ GLORY
Mouth-puckering ACERB
New York's iconic ___ Building SEAGRAM
Non-U.S. M.L.B. team, on sports tickers TOR
Not on point INAPT
Nurse back to health REHAB
On tenterhooks, maybe AGOG
One driving kids around in a Subaru? FORESTERPARENT
One to whom you tell *everything* BFF
Opinion SAY
Part of an agenda ITEM
Party symbol since 1870 DONKEY
Peacenik DOVE
Penny pinchers CHEAPOS
Perez of 'Do the Right Thing' ROSIE
Poet Carson ANNE
Predator of the Pacific Northwest ORCA
Puerto ___ RICAN
Quick tennis match ONESET
Resolute FIRM
Scallywag SCAMP
Set on edge GRATE
Show stoppers? REMOTES
Side of a diamond FACET
Sidestep AVOID
Singer Carly ___ Jepsen RAE
Slip of the fingers TYPO
Slowly, in music LENTO
Sorento or Sedona KIA
Sorry state REMORSE
Station DEPOT
Stick in a boat OAR
Suffix with auto- MATIC
Suffix with switch EROO
Take into account? SAVE
Teeny ITTY
The 'M' of MHz MEGA
The A.P.'s Female Athlete of the Decade for the 2010s, familiarly SERENA
Tiebreakers, briefly OTS
Totes LUGS
Trim SNIP
Trim EDGING
Troops who are worried about sun protection? PARASOLMILITARY
Turn down DIM
What a left parenthesis suggests in an emoticon FROWN
What Consumer Reports lacks, unlike most other magazines ADS
What might come down to the wire? BIRD
What orchids may grow without SOIL
When 13-Across aired for most of its run ATNINE
Where a sloth spends most of its life TREE
Where Simone Biles won four golds RIO
Whine connoisseurs? CRABS
William who wrote 'Shrek!' STEIG
Winters or Somers ACTRESS
Without much thought IDLY
Word processing command PASTE
Wraps up ENDS
[Not again!] GROAN
___ hook (rock climbing technique) TOE
___-Grain (breakfast bar brand) NUTRI