New York Times Crossword Answers – Thursday August 5 2021

Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Thursday August 5 2021.
‘Cool it, lovebirds’ – GETAROOM
‘Fourth periods’ in hockey, for short – OTS
‘Live well’ sloganeer – GNC
‘Lord of the Rings’ baddie – ORC
‘Miss ___ Regrets,’ jazz standard performed by Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald – OTIS
‘Seconded’ – IAGREE
‘Sounds like a plan’ – LETS
‘Time ___!’ – ISUP
A host of answers? – TREBEK
After the top half of a 42-Down, circles around the block? – HOLECOVERS
After the top half of a 7-Down, sophisticated lady – OFTHEWORLD
Anti-D.U.I. org – MADD
Apt rhyme for ‘lumberjacks’ – AXE
Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided – BEATSADEAD
Before the bottom half of a 7-Down, tipple and then some – DRINKLIKEA
Big, in adspeak – MEGA
Bucolic beasts – EWES
Bucolic call – BAA
Carrie in ‘Sex and the City’ – BRADSHAW
Certain protective parent, colloquially – MAMABEAR
City sieged by Joan of Arc – ORLEANS
Connect with – LINKTO
Cry of pain … or laughter – HOWL
Draft picks – ALES
Flash point? – CAMERA
Follower of Christmas or Easter – ISLAND
Funk – ODOR
Game show shout-out – HIMOM
Grammy category – OPERA
Graph component – AXIS
Graph component – GRID
Green smoothie ingredient – KIWI
Gummy candy brand – HARIBO
Hard one to teach, in a saying – OLDDOG
His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts – ABEL
Hybrid creature of myth – MERMAID
Hybrid creature of myth – CENTAUR
Icy remark? – BRR
Inits. in a.m. TV – GMA
Isle known as ‘The Gathering Place’ – OAHU
It may be wireless – BRA
Japanese automaker – ISUZU
Kicked things off – OPENED
King of cubs – LION
Late-night interviewee, e.g – TVGUEST
Lead-in to care – MEDI
Leave out – OMIT
Letdown at a fireworks show – DUD
Liquid-Plumr alternative – DRANO
Major talking point on CNBC, maybe – IPO
Maneuverable, in nautical lingo – YAR
MC ___ of N.W.A – REN
Philosopher Mo-___ – TZE
Playwright Bertolt – BRECHT
Pole worker – ELF
Portrait seen on renminbi bank notes – MAO
Prerelease, in Silicon Valley – BETA
Rival of Athens – SPARTA
Rubbish receptacle – ASHBIN
Savage – ANIMAL
Silly – APISH
Some tribal leaders on ‘Game of Thrones’ – KHALS
Son in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ – ALEC
Sport shooting variety – TRAP
Sport shooting variety – SKEET
Stained, in a way – INKY
Stopped producing new leads, as an investigation – WENTCOLD
Sushi bar choice – AHI
Sushi bar choice – EEL
Talk up – TOUT
That, en España – ESO
They might be tied using a taiko musubi (‘drum knot’) – OBIS
Throat malady, for short – STREP
Total War game company – SEGA
When the Lyrid meteor shower typically peaks – APRIL
Where you might search for a lead? – IMDB
You can see right through it – GLASS
___ Pizza (punny trattoria name) – PISA