Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Wednesday August 4 2021.
‘Full Metal Jacket’ setting, in brief – NAM
‘Funky Cold Medina’ rapper – TONELOC
1986 #1 hit for Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald – ONMYOWN
58-Across between Lou and Bess – ELEANOR
Allende who wrote ‘City of the Beasts’ – ISABEL
Alma mater for Martha Stewart and Joan Rivers – BARNARD
Be bedridden, say – AIL
Bequeaths – WILLS
Big Apple subway inits – MTA
Big break – RIFT
Birthplace of Homo sapiens – AFRICA
Busy body? – BEE
Certain lap dog, informally – POM
Classic song that starts ‘I was working in the lab late one night’ [2003, 1970] – MONSTERMASH
Commuter’s headache [1998, 2000] – RUSHHOURTRAFFIC
Crossed – MET
Donkey Kong, for one – APE
Dream big – ASPIRE
Dwindle – RUNLOW
Editing device suggested by 17-, 23-, 33- and 46-Across? – FILMSPLICER
Email addenda, for short – PSS
Ex-seniors – GRADS
Gamblers’ calculations – ODDS
Goes back to square one – RESETS
Gotham inits – NYC
Help button – ESC
Help up a slope – TBAR
Highly respected – EMINENT
Hurdles for many honor students, in brief – APTESTS
Hwy – RTE
In the bargain bin, say – ONSALE
It was cool in the ’90s – PHAT
Lead-in to sax – ALTO
Like some glasses – BIFOCAL
Line at the top or bottom of a website [1997, 2019] – CONTACTUS
Lovelace of early computing – ADA
Mac-versus-PC and others – ADWARS
Mattress size – TWIN
Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, informally – FLOTUS
Moral code – ETHIC
Mystery writer? – ANON
Nikon D3500, e.g – SLR
Often-frazzled comics character – CATHY
Opposite of norte – SUR
Place to hide in hide-and-seek – CLOSET
Popular depilatory – NAIR
Popular New Orleans dessert – BEIGNET
Rampage – GOWILD
Rank below adm – CAPT
Request accompanying puppy dog eyes, maybe – CANI
Search blindly – GROPE
Seating section – TIER
Sickly-looking – WAN
Small wind instrument – FIFE
So-called ‘Godfather of the Teamsters’ – HOFFA
Some celebrity sporting events – PROAMS
Something most babies do at around six months – TEETHE
Start of the Depression [1987, 2004] – WALLSTREETCRASH
Strives (to) – AIMS
Supporting – FOR
Surprise for a statistician – ANOMALY
Tennis feat – ACE
The Rams scored none of these in the ’19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in ’21 – TDS
Throne material on ‘Game of Thrones’ – IRON
Type of rice – BASMATI
Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker – RIO
Viking beverage – MEAD
What the N.B.A.’s SuperSonics became in 2008 – THUNDER
Works of Picasso y Goya – ARTE
___ alphabet – NATO
___ Lady of Guadalupe – OUR
___ Lankan – SRI
___ vera – ALOE
___-Signal – BAT
