NY Times Crossword 2 Oct 21, Saturday

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Across

Clues	Answers
Like the Rock vis-à-vis any of the Stones	BEEFIER
Small doodles, perhaps	LAP DOGS
___ pants	HAREM
Surpass	ECLIPSE
Candy bar with an exclamation point in its name	OH HENRY!
To love, in Italian	AMARE
Meticulous magical beings?	THOROUGH FAIRIES (from “thoroughfares”)
The land down under	HADES
Sharpen	HONE
Screams	RIOTS
Calendar column: Abbr.	MON
Frenzied states	PANICS
High-ranking figures, collectively	BRASS
Like some cross-Caribbean flights?	PANAMA-HAITI (from “panama hat”)
Three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the New York Jets Ring of Honor	AL TOON
Biblical father of Eliphaz	ESAU
CNN political correspondent Bash	DANA
Bushy-tailed rodents	DORMICE
Postseason tournament pick	WILD CARD
___ Reader (quarterly magazine)	UTNE
Journals of a certain stunt performer?	DOUBLE DIARIES (from “double dare”)
Commuting arrangement	CARPOOL
Body shop fig.	EST
Owing	SHY
Buddy of Buddy, maybe	FIDO
What might whet an appetite	AROMA
Taken down and put up elsewhere	REHUNG
Relative of cerulean	AZURE
Scale for some judges	ONE TO TEN
Possible reason for refusing to wear a tank top?	SHOULDER HAIRINESS (from “shoulder harness”)
Worries about something	SWEATS IT
2018 crime biopic	GOTTI
“Potatoes done perfect” sloganeer	ORE-IDA
Shape of a doughnut	TORUS
Shape of a canine ID tag, often	BONE
Fossil suffix	-ITE
“Most miserable hour that ___ time saw”: Lady Capulet	E’ER
“Checkmate”	YOU LOSE
Means of learning about Chiang Kai-shek?	BOOKS ON TAIPEI (from “books on tape”)
Massachusetts’ College of Our Lady of the ___	ELMS
Some post-pollution efforts	CLEANUPS
Become ticked off	GET SORE
Ready	PREP
Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir	THOR
Tools used by horologists	LOUPES
Inept dancers at Oktoberfest?	POLKA IDIOTS (from “polka dots”)
Express line count	ITEMS
Mentor of 50 Cent	EMINEM
Valedictorian’s pride, in brief	GPA
Mag space seller	AD REP
Smurf with a white beard	PAPA
Dish at a traditional Bedouin wedding	CAMEL
New look provider … or a homophonic hint to this puzzle’s theme	FRESH PAIR OF EYES or FRESH PAIR OF IS
Small hill	KNOLL
Poorly lit	DARKISH
Series of steps	PROCESS
Early R&B group for Missy Elliott	SISTA
Stockpiles	AMASSES
Felt on the head?	STETSON

Down

Clues	Answers
“2 Broke Girls” co-star Behrs	BETH
Bounce off the wall	ECHO
Musk of SpaceX	ELON
Incendiary explosive	FIREBOMB
Big news to share in the biz world?	IPO
Company acquired by Allstate in 2011	ESURANCE
Longtime first name in TV talk	REGIS
Unpartitioned apartment	LOFT
Clicking sounds?	AHAS
Letter two after tau	PHI
___ E (skin care brand)	DERMA
Guacamole ingredient	ONION
Major exporter of nutmeg	GRENADA
___ admin	SYS
“LOLOL”	HA HA HA
Big name in microwaves	AMANA
Straight sides of sectors	RADII
Put up	ERECT
Soccer superstar nicknamed “La Pulga” (“The Flea”)	MESSI
Water (down)	HOSE
The National Zoo’s Xiao Qi Ji, e.g.	PANDA
Agitate	ROIL
Hungarian herding breed	PULI
Figure on Italy’s 2,000-lira note before euros were introduced	MARCONI
Common viper	ADDER
Free	LOOSE
People can’t lie under it	TRUTH SERUM
Actor who delivered the line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”	SWAYZE
Word with power or brakes	AIR …
GQ V.I.P.s	EDS
Best	DEFEAT
“___: Vegas” (TV reboot of 2021)	CSI
Revolted	UPROSE
Treat for Mr. Owl	TOOTSIE POP
Seward Peninsula city	NOME
Verve	ELAN
“There was no choice”	I HAD TO
Person with star power?	RATER
Triangular piece in a party bowlful	DORITO
Rentals that might come with dolly carts	U-HAULS
“Wrong!”	NOT SO!
Nickname for someone whose full name is a calendar month	GUS
Spur	URGE ON
Letter two before tau	RHO
Obie-winning playwright Will	ENO
Defamed, in a way	LIBELED
“Indeed”	IT IS SO
Reason to see an ophthalmologist	STYE
Pea jacket material	WOOL
Caterpillar competitor	DEERE
Thomas Jefferson or John Tyler, by birth	ARIES
Org. that bestows the Community Assist Award	NBA
Liberal arts sch. major	ENG
Certain curtain	SCRIM
On the ___ (no longer friendly)	OUTS
Overseas speed meas.	KPH
Go from here to there … like *that*	TELEPORT
Quark’s place	ATOM
“It’s my hunch …”	I SUSPECT …
Pithy saying	EPIGRAM
Dish whose yellow color comes from saffron	PAELLA
“Rude Boy” singer, to fans	RIRI
Divisions of bushels	PECKS
Like the Mideast exclave of Madha	OMANI
Long rides?	LIMOS
Used a prayer rug, say	KNELT
Literally, “works”	OPERA
Pieces of work	TASKS
Traditional rivals of the N.C.A.A.’s ‘Hoos	TERPS
Church part	APSE
There are three of them in a Morse “O”	DAHS
Passing through D.C.?	AYES
USD	dollar :: MXN : ___ : PESO
Part of 79-Down: Abbr.	ASSN
Frequent C.D.C. collaborator	FDA
“___ Way” (Kitty Kelley biography of Sinatra)	HIS
Opponent	FOE