New York Times Monday - Sep 28 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 New York Times Monday Puzzle - Sep 28 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Aida' composer	VERDI
'Do it now!'	ASAP
'Don't ___!'	ASK
'Famous' cookie guy	AMOS
'Life Is Good' rapper	NAS
'Play It as It Lays' author Didion	JOAN
'That's personal stuff I didn't need to hear'	TMI
'___ us a son is given'	UNTO
'___ we forget'	LEST
2,000 pounds	TON
Actress Reid of the 'American Pie' films	TARA
And all the rest, in brief	ETAL
Annoying summer swarms	GNATS
Apparel	ATTIRE
Big health insurer	AETNA
Bite like a beaver	GNAW
Blood fluid	SERUM
Brand of small planes	CESSNA
Calorie-counting regimen	DIET
Capital near the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that's still largely intact	CAIRO
Capital of Latvia	RIGA
Celebrations with hula dancing	LUAUS
Check someone's parent to make sure she's of drinking age?	CARDAMOM
Church official	CLERIC
Computer key not pressed alone	ALT
Container for cider or ale	JUG
Corrosive cleaner	LYE
Corsage flower	ORCHID
Criticize Sega's hedgehog design?	PANASONIC
Dead end sign	NOEXIT
Derby entrant	HORSE
Dirty rotten scoundrel	RAT
Do some trawling at sea?	CASTANET
Driver's furious fit	ROADRAGE
Embellish	ADORN
End of a college web address	EDU
Equal in rank	ONAPAR
Frets (over)	STEWS
Gobbled up or down	ATE
Head of the Holy See	POPE
Itsy-bitsy bit	ATOM
Kilmer who played Batman	VAL
Language of the Quran	ARABIC
Large sports venues	ARENAS
Lift on a ski slope	TBAR
Liza Minnelli musical set in Berlin	CABARET
Loudening device, informally	AMP
Mexican Mrs.: Abbr	SRA
Movies, informally	PIX
Not important	MINOR
Not stated directly	TACIT
Note to a staffer	MEMO
Pants line that's partly hidden	INSEAM
Partner of rank and serial number	NAME
Patron	USER
Peaty places	BOGS
Plentiful	ABUNDANT
Pong game company	ATARI
Priestly Gaul or Celt	DRUID
Radio journalist Shapiro	ARI
Redheaded orphan of Broadway	ANNIE
Ripken who played a record 2,632 consecutive major-league games	CAL
Russian space station until 2001	MIR
Scarlet letter, e.g	STIGMA
Small place of worship	CHAPEL
Small, lobsterlike crustacean	CRAWDAD
Smartphone precursor, for short	PDA
Smidgen	IOTA
Sort	KIND
Support the pasture entrance?	PROPAGATE
Swirling currents	EDDIES
Taxi	CAB
Thurman on the big screen	UMA
Truant G.I.'s infraction	AWOL
Turn on an axis	ROTATE
Venomous vipers	ADDERS
Was introduced to the doctor?	METAPHYSICIAN
___ loss for words	ATA