New York Times Crossword Answers – Monday August 9 2021

Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Monday August 9 2021.
‘Liberté, ___, fraternité’ (Haiti’s motto) – EGALITE
‘Pick me! Pick me!’ – OHOH
‘The Phantom of the ___’ – OPERA
2014 Ava DuVernay drama – SELMA
Actress Falco – EDIE
Atlantic or Pacific – OCEAN
Beginning – ONSET
Birds that do things just for the fun of it? – LARKS
Blue-green shade – TEAL
Carries a tune, in a way – HUMS
Child’s play – ABREEZE
Classic wafer brand – NECCO
Composition of many reefs – CORAL
Divisions of a subdivision – LOTS
Dogie catcher – LASSO
Enchilada topping, maybe – SOURCREAM
Flexible blackjack card – ACE
Frisbee, e.g – DISC
Gets past, as an obstacle – OVERCOMES
Gown – DRESS
Hillary who climbed Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay – EDMUND
Hilton competitor – WESTIN
Hyundai compact – ELANTRA
In that case – IFSO
Induces to pull a prank, maybe – DARES
Informal get-together – SESH
It rhymes with fire, appropriately – PYRE
Jill Biden ___ Jacobs – NEE
Knot again – RETIE
Leader of the Three Stooges – MOE
Make a choice – OPT
Male cat – TOM
Moody genre of music or fashion – EMO
Nebraska native – OTOE
Not in any way, in dialect – NOHOW
Not so much – LESS
Omitted – LEFTOFF
One tweeting about football? – REF
Opposite of 17-Across? – UNDERGOES
Opposite of 25-Across? – LOWLANDS
Opposite of 35-Across? – RIGHTON
Oslo’s country: Abbr – NOR
Period in human history after bronze was supplanted in toolmaking – IRONAGE
Pig follower in the Chinese zodiac – RAT
Place to go for the highlights? – SALON
Place to sell homemade crafts online – ETSYSTORE
Places where surgeries are performed, for short – ORS
Poem of praise – ODE
Practice piano piece – ETUDE
Private eye, quaintly – TEC
Radar sound – PING
Raging blaze – INFERNO
Regarding – ASTO
Say – UTTER
Sinuous swimmer – EEL
Sneaky laugh – HEH
Spicy – HOT
Spiral shapes – HELICES
Tattoos, informally – INK
The New Yorker cartoonist Chast – ROZ
Twinkies have a long one – SHELFLIFE
Venue with tiered seating – ARENA
Visual jokes in openings of ‘The Simpsons’ (a tradition since the first episode) – COUCHGAGS
Vogue competitor – ELLE
Wake-up calls played on bugles – REVEILLES
Warrior – COMBATANT
Website for techies – CNET
Wham or bam – NOISE
What good soufflés do – RISE
Where pirates roam – HIGHSEAS
Wishing sites – WELLS
Worrisome directive from a boss – SEEME
Zaps, in a way – LASES
___ Bird, many-time W.N.B.A. All-Star – SUE
___ États-Unis – LES
___ Lilly & Co – ELI