NYT Crossword: answers for Friday, November 1

1 Like some tracks : OVAL

5 ___ Demand Action (gun control advocacy group) : MOMS

9 Deadly biters : ASPS

13 Where opposites don’t attract? : LESBIANBAR

16 Small scale business? : DELI

17 Help resolve, as a conflict : DEESCALATE

18 Answer irritably : SNAP

19 Nixon established it in 1970, for short : EPA

20 Words on a red tag, maybe : ASIS

21 Cause : LEADTO

23 Family group : CLAN

24 Large amount, facetiously : JILLION

25 Golden retriever who ends up with a chocolate lab? : CHARLIEBUCKET

29 Bit of Muslim attire : HIJAB

30 Accumulating bowlful while eating edamame : PODS

31 Measure of heat, for short : BTU

34 Swears : AVOWS

35 Net alternative : ORG

36 Eggs-terminates? : SPAYS

38 Nebraska senator Fischer : DEB

39 ___-Ball : SKEE

40 Shoes, casually : KICKS

41 November handout : IVOTEDSTICKER

45 Assent to un hombre : SISENOR

47 Wine list heading : REDS

48 Lined up : INAROW

49 Pro ___ : BONO

50 “___ Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” (long-running British reality show) : IMA

53 Sensei’s domain : DOJO

54 “I” lift? : EGOBOOSTER

57 Animal on the flags of Spain, Montenegro and Sri Lanka : LION

58 Product that reduces static cling : DRYERSHEET

59 London-born actor who was People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2018 : ELBA

60 “Dress for Less” sloganeer : ROSS

61 Wearers of the Star of Life, for short : EMTS