New York Times - Jan 18 2022

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Clues Answers
"Carrying the Banner" musical NEWSIES
"Family ___" FEUD
"Hallowed be ___ name" THY
"I feel pretty, ___ pretty" ("West Side Story" lyric) OHSO
"Isn't that special!" HOWNICE
"Star Wars" princess-turned-general LEIA
"They conned me!" IWASHAD
"What's the big ___?" IDEA
A healthy person regularly calling in sick, e.g.? ILLPRACTICE
Academic job security TENURE
Annual festival in Austin, Tex SXSW
Apple offering IMAC
Artificial feature in New York's Central Park LAKE
As an ___ (parenthetically) ASIDE
Billie Eilish's "Therefore ___" IAM
Cannabis strain named for its regional origin KUSH
Cash-out spot? ATM
Chicken or duck FOWL
Cleopatra's snake ASP
Come face to face MEET
Confident shout from an optimist YESICAN
Dashboard reading, for short RPM
Dog command STAY
Drifting sheet ICEFLOE
Economize SKIMP
Ethan or Joel of filmmaking COEN
Event with V-E Day and V-J Day WWII
Exhaust TIREOUT
Family room DEN
Frequently, in poetry OFT
Give up CEDE
Good dirt LOAM
Grassy expanses LEAS
High, flat land feature MESA
Hosts, informally MCS
Idiosyncrasy TIC
Intro to girl ATTA
It may be found above the mantle CRUST
It's "the word" MUM
Clues Answers
Italian author Ferrante ELENA
Italian author Umberto ECO
Lena or Ken of film and TV OLIN
Library area STACKS
Lil ___ X NAS
Lucy's empty-booth sign in "Peanuts" ... or a hint to 16-, 24-, 37- and 55-Across THEDOCTORISOUT
Material easily mistaken for aluminum TIN
Megan Thee Stallion genre RAP
Not great, as chances SLIM
Oak or beech TREE
Olympic group with a red, white and blue insignia TEAMUSA
Org. that creates the G.R.E ETS
Outdoor "carpet" SOD
Paris accord? OUI
Pet transported in a bike basket amid a whirlwind TOTO
Point AIM
Possible requirements for joining a tattoo club? TWOINKMINIMUMS
Preceded in commenting on an adorable kitten photo, say? BEATTOTHEAW
Prop for a tilting bookcase, say SHIM
Quaint contraction TWERE
Rabbit holder HUTCH
Reacted to a dreamboat, maybe SWOONED
Really overdoing it, in slang SOEXTRA
Reform leader memorialized in the Stone of Hope, for short MLK
Sharpen HONE
Sigma/upsilon go-between TAU
Singer Young or Diamond NEIL
Single-serve coffee holder KCUP
Sore from exercise, say ACHY
Spray lightly MIST
Tabloid twosome ITEM
The difference between a mini and a midi HEMLINE
Transmissions triggering manhunts, for short APBS
Uncommon RARE
What a nervous public speaker sounds like? UMMACHINE
Word in a "Batman" balloon POW
Wordless admonishments TSKS
Yemeni port ADEN
Zero NONE