New York Times Answers - Friday, 20th August 2021

There are 31 across clues and 36 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 20th August 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Everyone's talking about them	HOTTOPICS
AAcross 10:	Kind of infection
AAcross 15:	Water color	OCEANBLUE
AAcross 16:	See 22-Across
AAcross 17:	Routine part of a routine	STALEJOKE
AAcross 18:	Joe Louis in Detroit, for one
AAcross 19:	Controls
AAcross 20:	Executive check	VETOPOWER
AAcross 22:	16-Across squared
AAcross 24:	Cowboys' headgear
AAcross 25:	Who said "The greatest victory is that which requires no battle"	SUNTZU
AAcross 28:	Short accompanying article
AAcross 29:	Near	CLOSEINON
AAcross 31:	Surname of father-and-son N.B.A. coaches Paul and Stephen	SILAS
AAcross 33:	Passing stat: Abbr.
AAcross 34:	Border county of New York or Pennsylvania	TIOGA
AAcross 36:	Ear-related prefix
AAcross 37:	More widespread
AAcross 40:	Provider of inside info?	CTSCANNER
AAcross 43:	Natalie of "Today"
AAcross 45:	Like best friends
AAcross 46:	"Saving Private Ryan" or "Apocalypse Now"	WAREPIC
AAcross 47:	Martin who directed "Norma Rae"
AAcross 48:	Superhero misidentification	ITSAPLANE
AAcross 50:	Sickens with sweetness
AAcross 54:	Apt surname for a librarian	READE
AAcross 55:	Kowtowed (to)	TOADIEDUP
AAcross 57:	Aunt in "Oklahoma!"	ELLER
AAcross 58:	Patronizing types
AAcross 59:	Certain textile workers
AAcross 60:	Took control of
DDown 1:	Hope at the Oscars, e.g.
DDown 2:	Half of hexadeca-
DDown 3:	A's, but not B's or C's
DDown 4:	Singing and dancing, say
DDown 5:	Descriptor for most scarves, but not gloves	ONESIZE
DDown 6:	Sticky sandwich, for short	PBJ
DDown 7:	Words before "New York" and "Paris," in song titles	ILOVE
DDown 8:	Salad veggie
DDown 9:	Hallucinate
DDown 10:	Big box store that sells boxes
DDown 11:	Blood clots
DDown 12:	Question of humanity that has never been answered	AREWEALONE
DDown 13:	Gets through
DDown 14:	Gets word
DDown 21:	Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete
DDown 21:	Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete
DDown 23:	Ravel's "Gaspard de la ___"	NUIT
DDown 25:	___ for life
DDown 26:	In the end
DDown 27:	Off the market	NOTFORSALE
DDown 28:	Covers with chimney grime
DDown 30:	Compliment to an outfielder	NICECATCH
DDown 32:	Excel command
DDown 35:	Dramatic beginning	ACTI
DDown 38:	Travel item for bookworms	EREADER
DDown 39:	Rick Ross, Roddy Ricch and Rakim
DDown 41:	French film festival fare	ARTCINE
DDown 42:	Snacks for squirrels
DDown 44:	Short, for short	LIL
DDown 46:	Maybe too alert
DDown 47:	Syndicate, in a way	REAIR
DDown 49:	City at one end of Lake Pontchartrain, for short	NOLA
DDown 51:	They can be Sapphic
DDown 52:	Log time
DDown 53:	Catalyzed, with "up"
DDown 56:	Cubby hole?