New York Times, Friday, October 2, 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 New York Times, Friday, October 2, 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Brass'	EXECS
'Isle of Dogs' director Anderson	WES
'Seeded' or 'unseeded' grocery choices	RYES
'Seems likely'	IDBET
'Take heed, ___ summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing': 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'	ERE
'___ thanks!'	MANY
Adam Smith and David Hume, e.g	SCOTSMEN
Admissions considerations	TESTSCORES
Air on Twitch, say	LIVESTREAM
Aromatic herb	THYME
Bird feeder fill	SUET
City near Memphis	CAIRO
Classic cocoa powder brand	QUIK
Core exercise	PLANK
Cracked	AJAR
Deliberately sink	SCUTTLE
Denim and chino	TWILLS
Dessert preceder	MAINCOURSE
Deuces, e.g	TIES
Dress	FROCK
Drudge	PEON
Early stage for some bugs?	BETA
Eastern gambling mecca	MACAU
Ending with Black or brack	ISH
Epitome of sharpness	RAZOR
Event with a room full of people making a row	BINGONIGHT
Fall person, perhaps	RAKER
Growl like an angry dog	GNAR
Hebrew for 'day'	YOM
Hinge (on)	RELY
Horatian compilation	ODES
Host of the first World Table Tennis Championships: Abbr	ENG
I I I	IOTAS
Info on a flight tracker app	ETAS
It's hard to fight	URGE
Late justice known for powerful dissents, for short	RBG
Modify so as to bypass a device's restrictions, in hacker lingo	JAILBREAK
Most Super Bowl M.V.P.s	QBS
Neighbor of Scorpius in the sky	ARA
Of yore, of yore	OLDE
One hand washing the other, so to speak	QUIDPROQUO
One of Yellowstone's 2.2+ million	ACRE
Opposite of bother	LETBE
Overdrafts?	REWRITES
Place for an ace	COCKPIT
Possible uses for Bundt pans	MOLDS
Ration	DOLE
Reason for a donation	CAUSE
Recipient of a 'Brava!'	DIVA
Red peg, in the game Battleship	HIT
Rules of conduct	PRECEPTS
See 25-Across	MINEO
Self-evident	AXIOMATIC
Senator Ben from Nebraska	SASSE
Serving of kielbasa or knackwurst	LINK
Shade similar to honey	AMBER
Socialists, e.g	THIRDPARTY
Some famous last words	ETTU
Something to try first	PLANA
Sound at a fireworks display	OOH
Sphere of influence	AMBIT
Stewing, say	ONLOW
Talus	ANKLEBONE
Things opened at spas	PORES
Tips	ACMES
Triathlete's need	BIKE
Two-wheelers	SCOOTERS
Urban kind of bar or garden	ROOFTOP
Volcanic rock	BASALT
Whistlers of a sort	KETTLES
Whom one might address as 'sensei'	ZENMASTER
With 17-Across, 'Giant' actor of 1956	SAL