New York Times Crossword Answers August 19, 2022

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Author: Patrick John Duggan
Editor: Will Shortz

Across

Former British colony whose national flag includes the Union Jack FIJI
It might slowly grow on you BEARD
Be hot and bothered FUSS
Freshly ANEW
Like Venus vis-à-vis Serena Williams OLDER
Part of YOLO ONCE
Putdown to a klutz, in dated slang SMOOTHMOVEEXLAX
They're open to change TIPJARS
From which we get "Hakuna matata" SWAHILI
Politician's platform DAIS
Drags TOKES
The drinks are on me! BARMENU
Maximally neat COOLEST
Opera daughter of Amonasro AIDA
Green sort INGENUE
Shot TRY
Selfish demand MEFIRST
Part of a cup LIP
Sea that's fed by the Jordan River GALILEE
Big name in sandals TEVA
One in a state of disbelief ATHEIST
Bigwig in the admissions dept.? STPETER
Like some enemies SWORN
Devil-may-care RASH
Member of high society? POTUSER
He wrote "All good things are wild and free" THOREAU
"Let me be frank …" IWONTMINCEWORDS
Writer who founded Objectivism RAND
Striped cat TABBY
Author of the six-book poem "Fasti" OVID
They move around in orbits EYES
Knocks dead SLAYS
Like casting Michael Keaton in "Birdman" as an actor who used to play a superhero META

Down

Unfading FAST
Flying INMIDAIR
What makes you question everything you know? JEOPARDY
Literally, "sulfur island" IWOJIMA
See 25-Down BOHR
Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the ___" ELMS
Big scene ADO
Races, in a way REVS
Acted sketchy? DREW
Shelter from attack FOXHOLE
As opposed to UNLIKE
Runs up and down? SCALES
Like policies prohibited by Title IX SEXIST
Leave stunned, in a way TASE
Go for a bite, say EATOUT
Be up BAT
With 5-Down, Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in atomic theory NIELS
Ill-suited UNFIT
Dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter CERES
Dawn ONSET
Jazz great Evans GIL
Central part of town: Abbr. MAINST
It's not your fault LETSERVE
"Oh, just stop!" IVEHADIT
Something to shoot for PAR
Kicking and screaming, often GERUNDS
Russian ___ (iconic restaurant near New York's Central Park) TEAROOM
Have a target ASPIRE
Involving a give-and-take TWOWAY
Scorcher HOTONE
Projecting front PROW
Many fire dept. members, by training EMTS
Mideast capital RIAL
Big purveyor of frozen desserts TCBY
Cries for attention HEYS
Certification letters USDA
L.A. and N.Y.C. are each represented in it twice NBA