New York Times Sunday February 21 2021 Crossword Solutions

 New York Times, Sunday, February 21, 2021 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'Do you understand me?'	AMICLEAR
'Hoo-boy!'	MAN
'I beg of you,' e.g	PLEA
'I mean ...'	ERM
'No more for me, thank you'	IMALLSET
'Of course!'	YES
'Same here'	ASAMI
'That feels goo-oo-ood!'	AAH
'Thus ...'	ANDSO
'Top Chef' chef ___ Hall	CARLA
'We got permission!'	ITSAGO
'You, too?!'	ETTU
'___ making a list ...'	HES
2006 film with the tagline 'Keep it wheel'	CARS
2016 #1 album for Rihanna	ANTI
A leg up	HELP
A+ earner	STARPUPIL
Actor Ray of 'Field of Dreams'	LIOTTA
Actress Chaplin	OONA
Actress de Armas	ANA
Alumni grouping	YEAR
And so on and so forth	ETCETC
Anointment	UNCTION
Bamboozled	HAD
Beefcakes	STUDS
Big bleu expanse	MER
Big Five studio of Hollywood's Golden Age	RKO
Bird whose males incubate the eggs	EMU
Bit of Morse code	DIT
Biting	ACID
Black	INKY
Box score column	HITS
Brainy?	CRANIAL
Broad valley	LOWLAND
Candy bars? [Def Leppard]	POURSOMESUGARONME
Cash bars? [Abba]	MONEYMONEYMONEY
Center of a court	THRONE
Comeback	ECHO
D.C. pro	NAT
Did a little lifting	PILFERED
Director Lee	ANG
Disappointing court result	AIRBALL
Egg: Sp	HUEVO
Element 39	YTTRIUM
Excited cry after scratching a lottery ticket	IWON
First House speaker from California	PELOSI
First prize at the Juegos Olímpicos	ORO
Flag carrier to Karachi and Islamabad	PIA
Food pantry donation	CAN
For the lady	HERS
Gaping holes	MAWS
Geographical name that comes from the Sioux for 'sleepy ones'	IOWA
Gist	MEAT
Gold bars? [Queen]	WEARETHECHAMPIONS
Got around	EVADED
Got hot on Twitter, say	TRENDED
Gymnastics apparatus	HORSE
Häagen-Dazs competitor	EDYS
Habitat for Humanity is one, for short	NGO
Healthy dessert options	FRUITCUPS
High winds	FLUTES
Hindu festival of colors	HOLI
Hip	WITHIT
Horror film locale, in brief	ELMST
Hot place to chill	SPA
Insect named for the way it moves, not for its length	INCHWORM
It's a long story	SAGA
It's a relief!	CAMEO
It's turned, in a phrase	THETIDE
Japanese mat	TATAMI
Kind	SORT
Large expanses	TRACTS
Last option in a list, maybe	OTHER
Lets go of	UNHANDS
Like a certain complex	OEDIPAL
Like some bread and cereal	OATEN
Low-wattage	DIM
Made square	EVENED
Makes insulting jokes about	ROASTS
Mapo ___ (spicy Sichuan dish)	TOFU
Market index, for short	THEDOW
Mathematical proposition	LEMMA
Minute	TINY
Misidentify something, e.g	ERR
Most-watched TV show of 2002-05	CSI
Move a cursor (over)	MOUSE
Muddy	ROIL
Native American tribe of Montana	CROW
Not going anywhere	INARUT
Noted 1815 comedy of manners	EMMA
Offering in china ... or from China	TEA
Options for outdoor wedding receptions	TENTS
Oral equivalent of a facepalm	OYVEY
Overhauled, in a way	REWROTE
Papal name last taken in 1939	PIUS
Perspective, in brief	POV
Poetic shortening	THO
Pop	SODA
Practice	PLY
Prayer, e.g	APPEAL
Prefix with conscious	ECO
Pride : lions :: ___ : dolphins	POD
Prison bars? [Elvis Presley]	JAILHOUSEROCK
Really thin type	TWIG
Relative of the mambo	CHACHA
Relevant	ONTOPIC
Ridiculous	INANE
Scruffs	NAPES
Seventh avatar of Vishnu	RAMA
Single	LONE
Singles bars? [Robyn]	DANCINGONMYOWN
Sink holes	DRAINS
Sister restaurant of Applebee's	IHOP
Sitcom extraterrestrial	ALF
Smallest state in India	GOA
Solving crosswords, e.g	PASTIME
Something that's well-kept?	WATER
Space bars? [Frank Sinatra]	FLYMETOTHEMOON
St. Louis symbol	ARCH
Stood the test of time	LASTED
Strongly endorse	SWEARBY
Stylish	DAPPER
They're checked at check-ins	IDS
They're often parked in parks	RVS
Things many people lose as they grow older	IDEALS
Thumbs-up	AOK
Traditional Chinese drink	OOLONG
Was snoopy	NOSEDIN
Weight right here!	SCALE
Weizenbock or Berliner Weisse	ALE
Wet bars? [Gene Kelly]	SINGININTHERAIN
What goes right to the bottom?	TALC
Where trills provide thrills	OPERA
Wiped out	ATEIT
World capital that's home to Kotoka International Airport	ACCRA
World capital that's home to Noi Bai International Airport	HANOI
___ Adlon, Emmy winner for 'King of the Hill'	PAMELA
___ Austin, Biden defense secretary	LLOYD
___ Domini	ANNO
___ Psaki, Biden press secretary	JEN