4 August 2021 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 4 August 2021

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Hints & Clues

Across
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___ alphabet : NATO
5
Dream big : ASPIRE
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___-Signal : BAT
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Mystery writer? : ANON
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Place to hide in hide-and-seek : CLOSET
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Donkey Kong, for one : APE
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Classic song that starts "I was working in the lab late one night" [2003, 1970] : MONSTERMASH
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Hwy. : RTE
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Viking beverage : MEAD
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Popular New Orleans dessert : BEIGNET
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Start of the Depression [1987, 2004] : WALLSTREETCRASH
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___ vera : ALOE
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Bequeaths : WILLS
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Works of Picasso y Goya : ARTE
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Gotham inits. : NYC
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Small wind instrument : FIFE
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Gamblers' calculations : ODDS
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Line at the top or bottom of a website [1997, 2019] : CONTACTUS
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Help up a slope : TBAR
38
Popular depilatory : NAIR
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Busy body? : BEE
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It was cool in the '90s : PHAT
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Search blindly : GROPE
45
Strives (to) : AIMS
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Commuter's headache [1998, 2000] : RUSHHOURTRAFFIC
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1986 #1 hit for Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald : ONMYOWN
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Throne material on "Game of Thrones" : IRON
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Lovelace of early computing : ADA
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Editing device suggested by 17-, 23-, 33- and 46-Across? : FILMSPLICER
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Crossed : MET
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Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, informally : FLOTUS
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Request accompanying puppy dog eyes, maybe : CANI
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___ Lankan : SRI
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Mac-versus-PC and others : ADWARS
62
Lead-in to sax : ALTO
Down
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"Full Metal Jacket" setting, in brief : NAM
2
Surprise for a statistician : ANOMALY
3
"Funky Cold Medina" rapper : TONELOC
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In the bargain bin, say : ONSALE
5
Tennis feat : ACE
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Nikon D3500, e.g. : SLR
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Certain lap dog, informally : POM
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Allende who wrote "City of the Beasts" : ISABEL
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Goes back to square one : RESETS
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Moral code : ETHIC
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Alma mater for Martha Stewart and Joan Rivers : BARNARD
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Hurdles for many honor students, in brief : APTESTS
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Something most babies do at around six months : TEETHE
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The Rams scored none of these in the '19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in '21 : TDS
22
Ex-seniors : GRADS
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Sickly-looking : WAN
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Mattress size : TWIN
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Big break : RIFT
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58-Across between Lou and Bess : ELEANOR
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Supporting : FOR
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___ Lady of Guadalupe : OUR
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Often-frazzled comics character : CATHY
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Rank below adm. : CAPT
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Seating section : TIER
36
What the N.B.A.'s SuperSonics became in 2008 : THUNDER
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Type of rice : BASMATI
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Like some glasses : BIFOCAL
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Highly respected : EMINENT
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Help button : ESC
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Some celebrity sporting events : PROAMS
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Rampage : GOWILD
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Dwindle : RUNLOW
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Birthplace of Homo sapiens : AFRICA
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So-called "Godfather of the Teamsters" : HOFFA
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Be bedridden, say : AIL
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Big Apple subway inits. : MTA
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Opposite of norte : SUR
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Email addenda, for short : PSS
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Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker : RIO