August 20, 2018 New York Times Crossword Answers

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Crossword Title: New York Times, Monday, August 20, 2018
Author: Peter Gordon
Editor: Will Shortz

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Crossword Clues

Mattress cover

Desert beast

“Born in the ___”

Deserves

Cockamamie

Catch cold?

Meat entree in Ukraine

“Weekend Update” show, for short

Carne asada holder

Low-fat

Practice piece at a conservatory

Travel about

Back of a boat

Meat entree in Austria

Have a hunch

Pewter component

Excellent, informally

Pound sound

Brand that “nobody doesn’t like”

Greek “H”

Home to the majority of earthlings

___ Air (affluent neighborhood of Los Angeles)

Bold type

Meat entree in New Zealand

Emmy winner Christine

Christmas carol

Freshwater polyp

Jam ingredient?

Alan who wrote the book “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?”

Sound elicited by a punch in the gut

Meat entree in the United Kingdom

Olive of cartoons

Disney World park

Be in accord

Small dog

Pro in taking dictation

Landowners’ papers

Religious offshoot

“That’s funny!”

California politico Garcetti

Concert bonuses

Sound of disapproval

The movie industry

“My Way” lyricist Paul

Thing attached to a sloop’s boom

Direction from Mo. to Me.

River embankments

Person not getting credit for a brave act

Hourglass contents

Up to the task

Panache

Mouse catcher

Easiest numbers to dial on a rotary phone

Adjust the pitch of

Chapter’s counterpart

Pop-up that results in the batter being called out even if the ball isn’t caught

Public bathroom compartment

No longer on the plate

Symbol on the Texas state flag

Bygone Swedish car

Assist in a crime

Trust

Cutting-___ (pioneering)

From a distance

Like a prison fugitive

Moby Dick and others

Counting everything

Separator of a.m. and p.m.

Owl’s sound

Dimwit

Thick Japanese noodle

Traditional knowledge

Ran out of juice

Pub pints

Choose, with “for”

Reprimand to a dog