New York Times - Jul 24 2023

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Clues Answers
'Battering' weapon RAM
'Breaking' update NEWSALERT
'Gotcha' ISEE
'That's hilarious!,' in a text LOL
'The Magic Flute,' e.g OPERA
'___ Misérables' LES
'___ that answer your question?' DOES
'___ you kidding me?' ARE
19th-century writer Bret HARTE
African grazer GNU
Annual observance for a global organization, for short UNDAY
Artist/activist Yoko ONO
Beginning of a balcony soliloquy OROMEO
Broad tie ASCOT
Bug-eyed red Muppet ELMO
Car part between the headlights GRILLE
Card with a single spot on it ACE
Christmas songs CAROLS
Coffee, slangily JOE
Consumers USERS
Courses that might have models ARTCLASSES
Debtors' notes IOUS
Doofus ASS
Down in the dumps SAD
Drink served with marshmallows COCOA
Font style that the shortcut Ctrl+I activates ITALICS
Friendly gathering SOCIAL
Guitar clamp CAPO
Hair goop GEL
Hammers and sickles TOOLS
Hams it up EMOTES
Have the engine on while parked IDLE
Holders of cash next to cash registers, maybe TIPJARS
Hotfooted it RAN
In addition ALSO
Inedible part of a cherry STEM
Intersected MET
It's clicked on a desktop ICON
Jump LEAP
Clues Answers
Large-scale EPIC
Laughably stupid INANE
Lemon meringue and banana cream PIES
Livestock holders on freight trains CATTLECARS
Long-running CBS drama CSI
Major honor for a univ. sports team NCAATITLE
Medicine tablet PILL
Must, informally GOTTA
Not in favor of ANTI
Not just *any* THE
Not moving STILL
Note after fa SOL
Ominous end of a threat ORELSE
One who accepts defeat gracefully GOODLOSER
Opposite of post- PRE
Partner of a pepper mill SALTCELLAR
Poker player's bold declaration IMALLIN
Popeye's Olive ___ OYL
Pried (into) NOSED
Radio tuner DIAL
Rubik's ___ CUBE
See 36-Across LETTERS
Soccer game cheer OLE
Spanish houses CASAS
Spider-Man adversary who was struck by lightning ELECTRO
Stay very far away, as from a hazard STEERCLEAR
Stuck-up person SNOB
The 'L' of U.C.L.A LOS
The African elephant has the largest of these among all animals EARS
The world's third-most populous country, after China and India USA
Uncle associated with the 12-Down SAM
Utmost, informally DARNEDEST
Where Des Moines is IOWA
With 38-Across, symbols of a scandal ... or what 16-, 23-, 47- and 58-Across consist of (in their entirety)? SCARLET
Witherspoon of 'Legally Blonde' REESE
Young fellows LADS
___ Lingus AER
___ Newtons (chewy snack) FIG
___ point (where lines converge) FOCAL