New York Times - Oct 14 2018

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Clues Answers
'Black ___,' Georgia O'Keeffe painting at the Met IRIS
'Despicable Me' protagonist GRU
'I'm begging you, let's not play that game!' PLEASEDONTGO
'I've finally decided! I'm ...' ASKINGFORTROUBLE
'If you are always trying to be ___, you will never know how amazing you can be': Maya Angelou NORMAL
'It ___' ('Who's there?' reply) ISI
'Looking to go somewhere?' NEEDARIDE
'My sincerest apologies, but that game is off the table' SORRYNOTSORRY
'No, that game would be over in a flash' LIFESTOOSHORT
'Of course!' AHA
'We can't play that game - I can't reach it on our shelf!' THERISKISTOOHIGH
'We can't play that game unless we borrow someone else's' IHAVENTACLUE
1996 Robert De Niro/Wesley Snipes psychological thriller THEFAN
Actor's honor, informally NOM
Aesop's 'The ___ and the Grasshopper' ANT
Antinuclear treaty topic TESTBAN
Apply haphazardly SLAPON
Attacked HADAT
Aviary sound COO
Bead source PORE
Big name in speakers BOSE
Bills BEAKS
Bird in a holiday song TURTLEDOVE
Bird named for a Titan RHEA
Blandishment CAJOLERY
Bone connection with convex and concave fittings SADDLEJOINT
Catch NAB
Cheerleader's cheer RAH
Classic Pontiacs GTOS
Classic work whose 'shorter' version comes in two vols OED
Common filler words UMS
Common filler words ERS
Corroded ATE
Cosmonaut Gagarin YURI
Country's McEntire REBA
D.C. insider POL
Daniel who wrote 'Flowers for Algernon' KEYES
Densest natural element OSMIUM
Dress (up) TOG
End-of-week cry TGIF
Ewoks or Jawas, in brief ETS
Fix, as a model plane REGLUE
Flavorful meat coating SPICERUB
Fleet FAST
French city grid RUES
Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo ARTISTA
Full of broodiness, say EMO
General ___ chicken TSOS
Get-go OUTSET
Go bad ROT
Go on and on YAP
Goals AIMS
Grammy winner Mary J. ___ BLIGE
Hammarskjöld once of the U.N DAG
He's often pictured carrying an hourglass FATHERTIME
Hosp. readout ECG
Image on the ceiling of la chapelle Sixtine ANGE
Impersonate POSEAS
Info in dating profiles TYPES
Is for all intents and purposes SEEMS
Island greetings ALOHAS
Isolated hill BUTTE
It comes just before a period ONESCOLUMN
It might result in a defensive TD INT
It's a trek HAJ
Kind of number not much seen nowadays FAX
Krazy ___ of the comics KAT
Clues Answers
Largest active Antarctic volcano EREBUS
Laughs and laughs HAS
Like albino alligators RARE
List-ending abbr ETAL
Little 'un TYKE
Low voices BASSI
M->F->M, e.g GENDERFLUIDITY
Many a Snapchat posting SELFIE
More smoky, as Scotch PEATIER
More villainous BASER
Narcissist's quality BIGEGO
Natural gas component ETHANE
Novelist McEwan IAN
O.K. to play, in a way UNHURT
Obsession with a single subject MONOMANIA
Officials in ancient Rome TRIBUNES
Old Buick LESABRE
Old vacuum tube TRIODE
Ominous sight at a beach FIN
One of 26 for Walt Disney OSCAR
One of academia's Seven Sisters SMITH
One of the first birds released by Noah after the flood, in legend IBIS
Onetime White House family TAFTS
Operating system developed at Bell Labs UNIX
Penalties for illegal bowls in cricket NOBALLS
People vis-à-vis gods MEREMORTALS
Polling calculations MARGINSOFERROR
Pop-up site TOASTER
Praise for a picador OLES
Provisions IFS
Rigid HARDSET
Scale site DELI
Secondary loan signer COMAKER
Show overuse, as a sofa SAG
Small matter ATOM
Spill coffee on, maybe SCALD
Standout ACE
Strand MAROON
Suit that's hard to get into ARMOR
Sunken ship sites SEABEDS
Supervillain in DC Comics ULTRAMAN
Surround with light ENHALO
Suspect statements? ALIBIS
Synchronized states UNISONS
Take over COOPT
Taurus or Touareg AUTO
They may have attachments EMAILS
They vary from past to present TENSES
They're shared among friends INJOKES
Things needed in passing? YEAS
Travel option for Birthright trips ELAL
Turn's partner TOSS
Turning point in history ONEBC
Tyrant Amin IDI
Unearth DIGUP
Vessels seen in 2004's 'Troy' BIREMES
What's plucked in 'she loves me, she loves me not' COROLLA
When doubled, dismiss out of hand POOH
Whiz MAESTRO
Who you really are TRUECOLORS
Word repeated in the openings of 'Star Wars' movies FAR
Work (up) RILE
___ Marino SAN
___ Mode, woman in 'The Incredibles' EDNA
___ Page, the Queen of Pinups BETTIE
___ school MED
___-nest MARES