New York Times - Sep 24 2021

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"I'm ___ myself here, but ..." DATING
"No contest," for one PLEA
"Well, there's a surprise!" IMAGINETHAT
"___ Possible" (2000s animated series) KIM
Actor Claude of "B.J. and the Bear" AKINS
Affaire de coeur AMOUR
Aircraft with low drag MONOPLANE
Apparatus with a harness and flippers SCUBA
Bearer of the earth in Iroquois creation stories TURTLE
Big ink purveyor EPSON
Black hairstyle with square-shaped sections BOXBRAIDS
Cabinet department with a buffalo on its emblem INTERIOR
Choice cut FILET
Component of many sandstone features in the Southwest REDROCK
Copter cousins GIROS
Daily in Paris LEMONDE
Dance around? HORA
Festive season YULE
Find satisfaction, slangily GETSOME
Galaxy array APPS
Get to eat ORDER
Give kudos to HAIL
Green symbol on Rotten Tomatoes SPLAT
Grp. of Pelicans THENBA
Help on wheels AMBULANCE
Hit from behind REARENDED
Hospital drama sets, in brief ERS
Important calculation for a weightlifter LOAD
It might end in an emoji TEXT
It's not a good look LEER
Lesson for an advanced language learner IDIOMS
Like many a documentary film NARRATED
List for a survivalist NEEDS
Little drawing? TUG
Lustrous shell compound NACRE
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Medicare Advantage, by another name PARTC
Milton Friedman's subj ECON
More than a few MULTIPLE
Nickname in Israeli politics BIBI
Not just live in the present PLAN
Not requiring much attention, say MINOR
Paid athletes with day jobs SEMIPROS
Pip SEED
Place for fast growth HOTBED
Pulling down MAKING
Quadrennial bonus LEAPDAY
Ran off (with) ELOPED
River through Bohemia ELBE
Scanner feature LASER
Sibilant sobriquet for "Summertime" singer Sarah Vaughan SASSY
Sicilian word that roughly translates as "swagger" MAFIA
Skateboarder's apparatus RAIL
Skateboarder's wear HELMET
Sliding ___ SCALE
Snacks for some beetles ANTS
Some prayer leaders IMAMS
Some pubgoers LADS
Successfully convince SELL
Sunday best FINERY
The singer Björk, for one ICELANDER
Valuable carriers ARMOREDCARS
Waiting for an assignment, maybe IDLE
Well lit? AFIRE
What genes do, biologically ENCODE
What's not to like? BETENOIRE
Yet to be processed CRUDE
[Live!] ONAIR
___ Mediterráneo MAR
___-over ONCE
£ : pound sterling :: R : ___ RAND