Thursday’s New York Times crossword puzzle solved: September 26, 2019

• IDA Lupino was used yesterday.
• Titan II was an ICBM discontinued in 1987. 
• I know KAL Penn by face and resumé (He's Kumar!), but didn't know his name.
• EL AL does indeed have planes with a blue stripe.
• "Cos. with many connections" is ISPS, which is droll, but I had a hard time reading "cos." as "companies."
• Singer SARA Evans is someone I don't know.
• You manufacture plows?  SNO-Way!
• Red ADAIR was an innovator in fighting oil well fires.