5 August 2021 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 5 August 2021

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M
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E
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G
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A
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H
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M
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R
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F
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H
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E
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G
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L
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M
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R
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P
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B
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A
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S
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K
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L
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D
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K
L
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K
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B
R
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D
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H
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W
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C
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M
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R
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N
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M
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L
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W
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N
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T
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C
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O
L
D
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A
X
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H
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O
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L
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C
O
V
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R
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M
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P
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H
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L
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S
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R
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T
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O
U
T
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M
D
B
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I
N
K
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Y
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B
E
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T
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D
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B
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T
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S
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Z
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O
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H
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D
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R
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G
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Big, in adspeak : MEGA
5
Game show shout-out : HIMOM
10
"Miss ___ Regrets," jazz standard performed by Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald : OTIS
14
Draft picks : ALES
15
Grammy category : OPERA
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Sport shooting variety : TRAP
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After the top half of a 7-Down, sophisticated lady : OFTHEWORLD
19
Total War game company : SEGA
20
His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts : ABEL
21
Lead-in to care : MEDI
23
Icy remark? : BRR
24
When the Lyrid meteor shower typically peaks : APRIL
26
Bucolic call : BAA
27
Sport shooting variety : SKEET
29
King of cubs : LION
30
Before the bottom half of a 7-Down, tipple and then some : DRINKLIKEA
32
That, en España : ESO
33
Carrie in "Sex and the City" : BRADSHAW
34
Flash point? : CAMERA
36
Savage : ANIMAL
40
Stopped producing new leads, as an investigation : WENTCOLD
44
Apt rhyme for "lumberjacks" : AXE
45
After the top half of a 42-Down, circles around the block? : HOLECOVERS
48
Leave out : OMIT
49
Silly : APISH
50
"Live well" sloganeer : GNC
51
You can see right through it : GLASS
52
MC ___ of N.W.A : REN
53
Talk up : TOUT
55
Where you might search for a lead? : IMDB
56
Stained, in a way : INKY
58
Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided : BEATSADEAD
62
Prerelease, in Silicon Valley : BETA
63
Japanese automaker : ISUZU
64
Isle known as "The Gathering Place" : OAHU
65
Funk : ODOR
66
Throat malady, for short : STREP
67
Graph component : GRID
Down
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Portrait seen on renminbi bank notes : MAO
2
Pole worker : ELF
3
"Cool it, lovebirds" : GETAROOM
4
Rubbish receptacle : ASHBIN
5
Cry of pain ... or laughter : HOWL
6
Major talking point on CNBC, maybe : IPO
7
Hybrid creature of myth : MERMAID
8
City sieged by Joan of Arc : ORLEANS
9
Anti-D.U.I. org. : MADD
10
"Fourth periods" in hockey, for short : OTS
11
A host of answers? : TREBEK
12
"Seconded" : IAGREE
13
Rival of Athens : SPARTA
18
Sushi bar choice : EEL
22
Follower of Christmas or Easter : ISLAND
24
Son in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" : ALEC
25
___ Pizza (punny trattoria name) : PISA
26
It may be wireless : BRA
28
Green smoothie ingredient : KIWI
30
Liquid-Plumr alternative : DRANO
31
Some tribal leaders on "Game of Thrones" : KHALS
33
Playwright Bertolt : BRECHT
35
Bucolic beasts : EWES
37
Certain protective parent, colloquially : MAMABEAR
38
Graph component : AXIS
39
"Sounds like a plan" : LETS
41
Late-night interviewee, e.g. : TVGUEST
42
Hybrid creature of myth : CENTAUR
43
"Lord of the Rings" baddie : ORC
45
Gummy candy brand : HARIBO
46
Kicked things off : OPENED
47
Connect with : LINKTO
48
Hard one to teach, in a saying : OLDDOG
51
Inits. in a.m. TV : GMA
54
They might be tied using a taiko musubi ("drum knot") : OBIS
55
"Time ___!" : ISUP
57
Maneuverable, in nautical lingo : YAR
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Philosopher Mo-___ : TZE
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Sushi bar choice : AHI
61
Letdown at a fireworks show : DUD