New York Times, Monday, August 31, 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 New York Times Puzzle, Monday, August 31, 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'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
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