Below is the complete solution for the crossword puzzle for August 21, 2023. Here we’ll help you all to solve the given puzzles easily with a moderate difficulty level. Wherever you get stuck you are always allowed to know more with the help of the given hints and find the correct possible answer. If you want to challenge your brain, then you should definitely try solving these puzzles which are published every day on our website.
NYT ACROSS CLUES
| Jamaican music genre | SKA |
| Largest city in Nebraska | OMAHA |
| Pulitzer or Pritzker | PRIZE |
| Approximate weight of a full-grown walrus | TON |
| Eggs (on) | URGES |
| Desert watering hole | OASIS |
| Author Bradbury | TIEDTHEKNOT |
| Some saxes | ALTOS |
| ___-wop | DOO |
| Mount ___, active Italian volcano | ETNA |
| Not require fees to be paid | WAIVECHARGES |
| Hashtag that trended in a late-2010s movement | METOO |
| Covers in goo | SLIMES |
| App that asks “Where to?” on its home screen | UBER |
| Office leader | BOSS |
| Silly | INANE |
| Lust or envy | SIN |
| Something you might hold to your ear in order to hear the first parts of 18-, 24-, 52- and 62-Across? | SHELL |
| Fishy bagel topper | LOX |
| Dark beer variety | STOUT |
| Berry in a smoothie bowl | ACAI |
| Cheerful, as an outlook | ROSY |
| Prepare to regift, perhaps | REWRAP |
| Story with Achilles | ILIAD |
| Fruity breakfast biscuit | CURRANTSCONE |
| Biblical sister of Rachel | LEAH |
| Debtor’s note | LOU |
| Ohio city where Goodyear is headquartered | AKRON |
| “Saturday Night Live” cast member from 1980 to 1984 | EDDIEMURPHY |
| Chicago airport code | ORD |
| Jerry Maguire’s profession in “Jerry Maguire” | AGENT |
| “Twice-Told ___” | TALES |
| G.I. entertainers | USO |
| Opposite of sparse | DENSE |
| Replay option | SLOMO |
| Stitch up | SEW |
NYT VERTICAL CLUES
| Drink sucker-upper | STRAW |
| “Bear” in a eucalyptus forest | KOALA |
| “We’re waiting …” | ANYTIMENOW/td> |
| Very beginning | OUTSET |
| Hosp. procedure | MRI |
| Mature, as wine | AGE |
| Ibsen’s “___ Gabler” | HEDDA |
| Fur tycoon John Jacob | ASTOR |
| “The Purloined Letter” author | POE |
| Earns and earns and earns | RAKESIN |
| “Money ___ everything” | ISNT |
| National park with the notorious Angels Landing hike | ZION |
| “Cómo ___ usted?” | ESTA |
| Refuses to share | HOGS |
| Above | OVER |
| Corn interiors | COBS |
| Kerfuffle | HOOHA |
| Lilly of pharmaceuticals | ELI |
| Stinky | MALODOROUS |
| Biblical son of Seth | ENOS |
| Smokin’ hot | SEXY |
| It broke up on Dec. 26, 1991 | USSR |
| Small snack | BITE |
| Jiffy | SEC |
| Done in, as a dragon | SLAIN |
| Cheery tune | LILT |
| Spiny sea creatures | URCHINS |
| Letter between sigma and upsilon | TAU |
| Set of antlers | RACK |
| Strait-laced | PRIM |
| Words after “because” that don’t really explain | ISAYSO |
| Decisive victories | ROUTS |
| Of the ear | AURAL |
| Viking language | NORSE |
| Fund, as a university | ENDOW |
| Metal that an alchemist “converts” into gold | LEAD |
| Slight advantage | EDGE |
| Port of Yemen | ADEN |
| Summer in Québec | ETE |
| West Bank grp. | PLO |
| ___ and haw | HEM |
Clues are given in order to help you all solve the given crossword puzzles easily in a very less amount of time. Do make sure to give it a try and challenge yourself as these puzzles are really fun to solve which will create a kind of brainstorming session for you. The hints are there to help you and the difficulty level is moderate so you don’t need to worry. Bookmark our website for more such crossword puzzles which are published every day along with the answers of the previous crossword puzzles.
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