New York Times, Sunday, August 9, 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 New York Times Puzzle, Sunday, August 9, 2020 Crossword Answers 

Clues	Answers
'... but it's up to you'	ORNOT
'Awkward Black Girl' creator and star	ISSARAE
'Ba-dum-tss'	RIMSHOT
'Dies ___' (hymn)	IRAE
'Frozen' queen	ELSA
'Hamilton' actor Leslie ___ Jr	ODOM
'Who cares?'	SOWHAT
'___ get it now!'	OHI
'___ trap!'	ITSA
*Airport logjam	SECURITYLINE
*Civic center	TOWNSQUARE
*Multi-episode narrative	STORYARC
*Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in 'Casablanca'	LOVETRIANGLE
*Winter vacation destination	SKISLOPE
Accented cheer	OLE
After-bath application	TALC
Ahab's father in the Bible	OMRI
Anatomical sac	CYST
Attempts	ASSAYS
Author Zora ___ Hurston	NEALE
Award to be hung	PLAQUE
Bad things on motorists' records, for short	DWIS
Ban ... or bandit	OUTLAW
Barely beat	EDGE
Baseball catcher	MITT
Beau, to Brigitte	AMI
Boy band with two members who previously starred on 'The Mickey Mouse Club'	NSYNC
Break down, to a Brit	ANALYSE
Buff	TONED
By and large	MAINLY
Bygone Apple messaging app	ICHAT
Chills	COOLS
College entrance exam org	ETS
Colored ring	AREOLA
Compass letters	NSEW
Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon	FENCE
Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr	WWI
Crucifix inscription	INRI
Curb, with 'in'	REIN
Desert's lack	RAINFALL
Dig in	ENTRENCH
Dined at home	ATEIN
Drag racing vehicles	HOTRODS
E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief	NCOS
Education support grps	PTAS
En ___ (as a whole)	MASSE
Endless YouTube viewing, e.g	TIMESINK
Even	ONAPAR
Event planner's need	CALENDAR
Event that's a bit off?	SALE
Famously green shampoo	PRELL
Fanny	TUSH
Fateful date	IDES
Ferris Bueller's girlfriend	SLOANE
First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket	PALIN
First lady between Eleanor and Mamie	BESS
Flat, round bread cooked on a griddle	ROTI
French island off the coast of Newfoundland	STPIERRE
Front	FACADE
Gary who created 'The Far Side'	LARSON
Goals	AIMS
Having tattoos	INKED
Headgear for a tailgater	BEERHAT
Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf	LUPIN
Hoped-for response to an SOS	AID
Hosp. V.I.P.s	RNS
Icarus's downfall	SUN
In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters	SHIPSHAPE
Ire	WRATH
It gives Ford an 'F': Abbr	NYSE
Kind of drawing	MECHANICAL
Lien holder, e.g	CREDITOR
Like a seacoast after a storm, maybe	ERODED
Little sucker?	VAC
Little suckers	LICE
Loud, as the surf	AROAR
Meager	SKIMPY
Members of a blended family	STEPKIDS
More skeptical	WARIER
Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony	RITA
Move, in Realtor jargon	RELO
New York city with a marina	RYE
Non's opposite	OUI
Not incl	ADDL
Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly	AOC
One of the Arnazes	DESI
One of the Gandhis	INDIRA
Painter of the 'Four Freedoms' series, 1943	ROCKWELL
Parades	STRUTS
Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask	NWT
Perfect	EDENIC
Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously	LIRA
Pinnacle	ZENITH
Pope after Benedict IV	LEOV
Prefix with -plasm	CYTO
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two	REDHEADS
Rap's Shakur	TUPAC
Relentlessly question	GRILL
Restricted zone	NOGOAREA
S as in soup?	NOODLE
Safe places	SANCTA
Sea route, e.g	PATH
Sea ___	OTTER
Set the boundaries of	DELIMIT
Silverback gorilla, e.g	ALPHA
Skip work for health reasons	CALLINSICK
Slapstick silliness	ANTICS
Smallish batteries	AAS
Smart ___	ALEC
Son of Aphrodite	AENEAS
Sound from a cheering crowd	RAH
Spanish rice	ARROZ
Start of a playground joke	YOMAMA
Strong ropes used to support masts	STAYS
Struck, old-style	SMIT
Successors to LPs	CDS
Suffix with tour or Tory	ISM
The butler, stereotypically	CULPRIT
The Jazz, on scoreboards	UTA
Theory	IDEA
They're listed by degrees	ALUMNI
Tired	WEARY
Tropical yellow fruits	PAPAYAS
U.S. govt. bond	TNOTE
Unisex fragrance	CKONE
Verb preceder	NOUN
Verbal stumbles	ERS
Washington's Sea-___ Airport	TAC
What's left at sea	PORT
Where to get a mullet trimmed	FISHMARKET
Words after 'Ooh, ooh!'	PICKME
Writer Rand	AYN
Writer Serwer of The Atlantic	ADAM
___ B. Wells, civil rights pioneer	IDA
___ boom	SONIC
___ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub	VICK
___ Paulo, Brazil	SAO
___ Street, Perry Mason's secretary	DELLA
___-El (Superman's birth name)	KAL
___-mo	SLO