New York Times Crossword Answers – Thursday July 29 2021

Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Thursday July 29 2021.
‘Asleep’ – NUMB
‘Make yourself comfortable’ – SIT
Accented approval – OLE
Aid in balance – EAR
Alternative to L.L.C – INC
Barely manage, with ‘out’ – EKE
Big Four bank, for short – CITI
Bow-making choice – ELM
Chafes – RUBSRAW
Chinese artist and political activist Ai – WEIWEI
Civil War ships – IRONCLADS
Deputies – AIDES
Fly (by) – WHIZ
Follower of ‘catch’ or ‘latch’ – ONTO
Founding member of the U.N. Security Council – USSR
Garment that typically has snaps – ONESIE
Gist – IDEA
God depicted in a figure called an ‘amoretto’ – EROS
Grief – WOE
Haaland who became secretary of the interior in 2021 – DEB
Hurricane-level winds, on the Beaufort scale – TWELVE
Important info for concertgoers – TOURDATES
Indicator of approval – SEAL
It fits in a lock – OAR
Items in a travel kit – TOILETRIES
I___, for one – NEWSCASTER
Land___ – DISPOSALAREA
Let – RENTED
Like hair at salons – STYLED
Made an impression? – APED
Matcha, e.g – TEA
Misanthrope of Victorian literature – HYDE
Mushroom eaten with udon – ENOKI
Native Rwandan – HUTU
NATO alphabet letter in ‘NATO’ – OSCAR
Olympics event whose participants shoot for the gold – SKEET
On hold – TABLED
One of a Roman septet – HILL
Plugs – HYPES
Point of a dancer who’s en pointe – TOE
Pond dweller that can regenerate its eyes – NEWT
Pop star Halliwell of the Spice Girls – GERI
Practicable – OFUSE
Prefix with penultimate – ANTE
Red Rose – PETE
Roof part – EAVE
School attended by Warren Buffett – WHARTON
See 39-Down – SIMON
Soap opera, e.g – SERIAL
Some bouncers use them – POGOSTICKS
Spots to keep watch? – WRISTS
Station – POST
Stumbling syllables – UHS
Tesla, e.g – SERB
Test format … or a hint to understanding three of this puzzle’s clues – FILLINTHEBLANK
Thurman of ‘Gattaca’ – UMA
Turf – SOD
U.S. Navy O-1: Abbr – ENS
Unlikely trick taker – TREY
Valuable violins, for short – STRADS
Vouch for – ATTESTTO
What the verb ending ‘-ise’ isn’t spelled with – ZED
Where bursitis may appear – KNEE
With 44-Down, only playwright to have a New York City theater named after him while still alive – NEIL
Word with bacon or rumble – STRIP
Wouldn’t settle, say – SUED
___more and more – PRESIDENTS