New York Times - Aug 31 2020

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'Heavens to ___!' BETSY
'Hilarious!,' in a text LMAO
'The Suite Life of ___ & Cody' (bygone teen sitcom) ZACK
'We ___ the World' ARE
'___ could've told you that!' EVENI
Align, informally SYNC
Always, to a poet EER
Amnesty International, e.g., in brief NGO
Ancient fortification overlooking the Dead Sea MASADA
Appendage on a cowboy's boot SPUR
Assumed name ALIAS
Avoid SHUN
Belgian river to the North Sea YSER
Believer in Jah, informally RASTA
Bottomless pit ABYSS
Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams ALYRAISMAN
Chap LAD
Choice words? ANDOR
Cocktail with tomato juice BLOODYMARY
Criticize, in slang DIS
Cry in a soccer stadium OLE
Degs. for C.E.O.s MBAS
Doctor, ideally HEALER
Eclipse or a black cat, some say OMEN
Elvis's '___ Dog' HOUND
End of a lasso NOOSE
Extracurricular activity for a musician BAND
Facts and figures DATA
Great Lake with the shortest name ERIE
Hi in HI ALOHA
Hit Broadway musical set partly in Paris, for short LESMIZ
Hogs SWINE
International furniture chain IKEA
Join a conference call, say DIALIN
Join the flow of traffic MERGE
Kind of connection port on a PC USB
Knight's weapon LANCE
Lbs. and ozs WTS
Letters before an assumed name AKA
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Like some handwriting ... or tipplers LOOPY
Luxurious OPULENT
Lye, chemically NAOH
Lymph ___ NODE
Main ingredient in a protein shake, maybe WHEYPOWDER
Mocking smile SNEER
Molten flow LAVA
Mommy's sister AUNTY
Monopoly properties you can't put houses on, in brief RRS
Nice smell AROMA
One tending a house during the owner's absence CARETAKER
Overly fussy, say ANAL
Pack animal of Tibet YAK
Pants part that might need patching KNEE
Part of the eye IRIS
Rainbow's shape ARC
Rating between excellent and fair GOOD
Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field UCLA
Screen ___ Guild ACTORS
Seating request on an airplane AISLE
Silly INANE
Some quiet exercise YOGA
Something computers cannot write to or erase CDROM
Spam spewer BOT
Stamp on a milk carton SELLBYDATE
Stops by DROPSIN
Sudden forward thrust LUNGE
Super ___ (1990s game console) NES
Tofu bean SOYA
Towel holder ROD
Traveled in the front passenger seat RODESHOTGUN
Two-part DUAL
Up to, informally TIL
Watermelon part that's spit out SEED
What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across CHANGELANES
Wild party, in slang RAGER
World's largest island nation INDONESIA
___ at the wheel ASLEEP
___ center REC