New York Times - Sep 1 2018 Saturday Crossword Puzzle Answers

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1. Lively dances in 2/4 time : SAMBAS 7. Smallest country in mainland Africa : GAMBIA 13. Had a fit? : TRIEDON 15. Indian or Mexican : CUISINE 16. Frazzled commuter's comment : ITSAZOO 17. One getting on : OLDSTER 18. How someone may be interrupted : MIDSENTENCE 20. Country club figure : PRO 21. Language with a trilled "r" : SCOTS 22. Verb in the first telegraph message : HATH 23. They're encouraged on a ketogenic diet : FATS 24. Encouraging words : OLES 25. Japanese stock holder : MISO 26. Lead-in to comic : SERIO 27. "Super" thing in games, once : NES 28. Force of nature? : CENTRIPETAL 30. Bit of belt-tightening : BUDGETCUT 31. Longtime talk show host with a degree from Harvard : CONANOBRIEN 34. Ethnic group that makes up about 18% of the world's population : HAN 37. Silly tricks : APERY 38. Ones on Telemundo : UNOS 39. Athlete known as "The Black Pearl" : PELE 40. "What, will these hands ___ be clean?": Lady Macbeth : NEER 41. Wee warbler : WREN 42. Luxurious Italian house : PRADA 43. Abbr. for those who don't like parties : IND 44. Bisector of the Fertile Crescent : TIGRISRIVER 46. Road Runners' race classification : TENMILE 48. Neighbor of an Austrian : SLOVENE 49. Part of an oven : BROILER 50. Money in the Bible : TALENTS 51. What's left : ESTATE 52. Prepare to go : GETSET		1. Secretary of war to Taft, Roosevelt and Truman : STIMSON 2. First word of the Constitution after the preamble : ARTICLE 3. Messes up : MISDOES 4. Wild things : BEASTS 5. Shop shapers : ADZES 6. Any minute : SOON 7. Mean Miss of "The Wizard of Oz" : GULCH 8. Second : AIDE 9. Ed.'s inbox filler : MSS 10. Cameo : BITPART 11. Resistance to change : INERTIA 12. Kind of can : AEROSOL 14. Overhyped event, in slang : NOTHINGBURGER 15. One who gets bent out of shape : CONTORTIONIST 19. Connecticut Yankee, e.g. : EASTERNER 23. Pedal pushers : FEET 25. "Love ___" : MEDO 26. Emulated Rumpelstiltskin : SPUN 28. Hunter College is part of it, in brief : CUNY 29. Summer coolers : ICES 30. Attorney general before Reno : BARR 31. Disbeliever's question : CANITBE 32. Prelims : OPENERS 33. Is unobliged to : NEEDNOT 34. "My word!" : HEAVENS 35. Chewy, in a way : ALDENTE 36. Proximate : NEAREST 39. Dividing shrub : PRIVET 41. Toon with a middle initial : WILEE 42. Drudge : PROLE 44. List : TILT 45. Smeltery refuse : SLAG 47. Nowhere to be found, for short : MIA