New York Times - Feb 26 2019 Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
'Open ___ ...' (store sign)	TIL
'The ___ Club' (1970s-'80s televangelist show)	PTL
'Tickle me' doll	ELMO
1/12 of a foot	INCH
Active conflict	HOTWAR
Any sacrament	RITE
Barn topper	VANE
Believer in nudism	NATURIST
Biblical verb with 'thou'	DOST
Bitter beer, briefly	IPA
Blue-blooded Brit	ARISTO
Brewery in the Nikkei 225	ASAHI
British term for a row of houses converted from stables	MEWS
Bronze coin in the Harry Potter books	KNUT
Bygone Apple messenger	ICHAT
C.I.A.'s Soviet counterpart	KGB
Challenge to a bully	MAKEME
Channel founded by Ted Turner	CNN
Chess ending	MATE
Clash with	TILTAT
Classic Chrysler product	KCAR
Cluster around an acorn	OAKLEAVES
Coagulates	CLOTS
Cold and moist, as a cellar	DANK
Confucian philosophy	TAO
Cover, as a knife	ENSHEATHE
Critical point?	NIT
Deux + un	TROIS
Dublin's land	EIRE
Economizes maybe too much	SKIMPS
Emergency operation, for short	EVAC
Entr'___	ACTE
Flight board posting, for short	ETA
Formally end	ABOLISH
Former competitor of Nikon and Canon	MINOLTA
French river in fierce W.W. I fighting	SOMME
God-given, as abilities	INNATE
Green Knight's weapon in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'	AXE
Horseshoe-shaped letter	OMEGA

Clues	Answers
Indian yogurt dip	RAITA
Is obliged to	SHOULD
Italian port on the Adriatic Sea	TRIESTE
Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar	EMIL
Kicks out of the game	EJECTS
Kipling's 'Rikki-Tikki-___'	TAVI
Legal order	WRIT
Liqueur whose name is Italian for 'a little bitter'	AMARETTO
MGM symbol	LION
Not pay for each drink individually, say	RUNATAB
Nurse, as a newborn	SUCKLE
Obsessive about details	ANAL
Org. whose monthly magazine advertises magazines	NRA
Partner of call	BECK
Prefix with -mania	KLEPTO
Protection for a lender	LIEN
Put in a crate	BOXUP
Raft-making wood	BALSA
Religious setback?	APSE
Ring champ Riddick	BOWE
River that formed part of the border between East and West Germany	ELBE
Rope fiber	SISAL
Say hello to	GREET
Shell's industry	OIL
Smooth sheet material	SILK
Sorrowful bell sound	KNELL
Stone face?	STUCCO
Student with a private teacher	TUTEE
Sushi bar fish	EEL
Take exception to something	DEMUR
Tribal chiefs, typically	ELDERS
Upstate N.Y. school	RPI
View, as the future	SEEINTO
Wastes gas, maybe	IDLES
What a psychic may read	PALM
What an 'O' means in XOXO	HUG
What each set of circled letters in this puzzle represents	JOINT
What's gained or lost with daylight saving time	ONEHOUR
___ Reader	UTNE

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