Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Thursday February 20, 2020.

Excuse me!’ – PARDON
‘Sweet and healing medicine of troubles,’ per Horace – MUSIC
‘That was a close one!’ – PHEW
‘The Americans’ K.G.B. officer ___ Burov – OLEG
‘We can’t joke about that yet?’ – T8S8N
‘___ that somethin’?’ – AINT
Actress Annie of ‘Young Sheldon’ – POTTS
Actress Lindsay of ‘Mean Girls’ – LOHAN
Adult – XR8D
Approximately, informally – ISH
At dinner and then the cinema, say – ONAD8
Awake during the wee hours, say – UPL8
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dantley – ADRIAN
Blyton who wrote ‘The Enchanted Wood’ – ENID
Brazil’s ___ Roosevelt – RIO
Busy day, in retrospect – BLUR
Cantina – BAR
Chicago’s ___ Expressway – EDENS
Cross – SPAN
Cry of surprise – YIPE
Dismissive response to critics – H8RSGONNAHO
Eddies – WHIRLP8LS
Expert – GURU
Fits – BOUTS
Flub – G8FUP
For whom Wednesday is named – ODIN
French greeting – SALUT
Gather dust – LIEIDLE
Go down – LOSE
Goes (through) laboriously – PLOWS
Golfer’s obstacle – TRAP
Grilled, at a taqueria – ASADA
Gut feeling – HUNCH
Hat worn by Charles de Gaulle – KEPI
Hawaiian food fish – OPAH
He beat Connors in the Wimbledon final in 1975 – ASHE
Hearts or spades – GAME
Hit it off – CLICK
Is nosy – SN8PS
Journalism – THEFOURTHEST8
Nail site – PAW
Nation of ___ – ISLAM
Nation’s borders? – ENS
Notch shape – VEE
Nuke – ZAP
One may be held by candlelight – VIGIL
Opposite of drain – FILL
Oprah’s ‘The Color Purple’ co-star – WH8PI
Oscar-nominated actor with nearly synonymous first and last names – RIPTORN
Parking lot event – TAILG8PARTY
People eaters – OGRES
Pirate plunder … or a hint to interpreting an appropriate number of squares in this puzzle – PIECESOFEIGHT
Pockets of the Middle East? – PITAS
Robert Galbraith, to J. K. Rowling – ALIAS
Say maybe, maybe – RSVP
Showed sudden interest – SATUP
Smith of punk rock – PATTI
Speed measure – MACH
Spike Lee film set at a historically black college – SCH8LDAZE
Sports org. with the New York Guardians and Seattle Dragons – XFL
Spot to lay anchor – COVE
Stuffing ingredient – SAGE
Subleased – RELET
Summer cooler – ICEE
Support for a religious group? – PEW
Taste – SIP
They close at 9 p.m. in New York – POLLS
Town that inspired ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ – SALEM
Tricks – F8LS
Two-time Time magazine Person of the Year – OBAMA
What a volcano may leave – CR8R
Where the Ko’olau Range is located – OAHU
Word after New York or Las Vegas – STRIP
___ dog – ALPHA