The full solution for the NY Times August 14 2021 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This Saturday’s puzzle is edited by Will Shortz and created by Nam Jin Yoon.
Clues are grouped in the order they appeared. If the answers below do not solve a specific clue just open the clue link and it will show you all the other possible solutions that we have solved. Along with today's puzzles, you will also find the answers of previous crossword puzzles by NYT, that were published in the recent days or weeks.
Across Clues
- Quarterback spikes?CLEATS
- OpeningFIRST
- Grammy-winning 2018 hit for Childish GambinoTHISISAMERICA
- “Huh!”THEMOREYOUKNOW
- Part of the planPHASE
- Lacking any preparationBLIND
- Try (for)GUN
- The 700s, in the Dewey Decimal SystemARTS
- Its flag features a pine and the North StarMAINE
- Booker in WashingtonCORY
- Traditional masked dramaNOH
- What antifeminism is a direct expression of, per Andrea DworkinMISOGYNY
- Challenge, symbolicallyGAUNTLET
- Sharp qualityTANG
- “Happy ___!”TRAILS
- Kind of showerBRIDAL
- Its pods are poisonous to eatTIDE
- Quick getaways, maybeBEELINES
- Star clusters?FANBASES
- Classic muscle carGTO
- Close ones, informallySIBS
- Fits (inside)NESTS
- “___ bien”ESTA
- Suffix with concertINA
- ___ II, eponymous gymnastics move featuring two backflips and a triple twistBILES
- Venus, to CupidMATER
- Background for someone who’s good with numbersMUSICALTHEATER
- Marvel producerMIRACLEWORKER
- Is super into, in modern parlanceSTANS
- IndulgeDOTEON
Vertical Clues
- Game of checkers?CHESS
- Cuba libre ingredientLIME
- Por ___ (therefore: Sp.)ESO
- Carriers are mobile onesAIRBASES
- Poet who wrote “I grow old … I grow old … / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled”TSELIOT
- SawSAYING
- Family matter, maybeFEUD
- Get toIRK
- Lead singer of “Yellow Submarine”RINGO
- Really cleanSCOUR
- Caramel relativeTAWNY
- “Ow!”THATHURT
- Fabled sources of fortuneMONEYTREES
- Place for a frogTHROAT
- Gut reaction, sayPANG
- Member of the Y?MILLENNIAL
- Pop star LauperCYNDI
- Sacred peak in the “Iliad” and “Aeneid,” for shortMTIDA
- CatchesNAILS
- Gullible sortsNAIFS
- Family memberGANGSTER
- A+ effortBESTSHOT
- Word with block or chainLETTER
- BinaryBASETWO
- Touch the skySOAR
- Flared, as sleevesBELLED
- New York Giants legend PhilSIMMS
- The Greenlandic language is a form of itINUIT
- Economic capital of IraqBASRA
- Packed in?EATEN
- Hidden inclusions, for shortBCCS
- One-named Japanese-born actor with a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameMAKO
- Janis with the 1975 hit “At Seventeen”IAN
- Lead-in to nowERE