Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday August 8 2017

4-4 – COMMONTIME
11-11 – VETERANSDAY

“___ the land of the free …” – OER
“Great Expectations” protagonist – PIP
“I’ve had it ___ here!” – UPTO
“Sexy” woman in a Beatles song – SADIE
“Skyfall” singer – ADELE
“The Lord of the Rings” baddie – ORC
“The Raven” poet – POE
“The Simpsons” character with a palindromic name – OTTO
___ Major (Big Dipper’s constellation) – URSA
20/20 – GREATVISION
50/50 – EVENSTEVEN
Advice-giving Landers – ANN
Always trying to get one’s way – PUSHY
Analogy words – ISTO
Argyle pair – SOCKS
Asia’s disappearing ___ Sea – ARAL
Basketball highlight – DUNK
Butcher’s cut – LOIN
Division of baseball’s N.L. or A.L. – CENTRAL
Dracula’s biter – FANG
Drug informant, informally – NARC
Dubai’s home: Abbr. – UAE
Eggs – OVA
European automaker – OPEL
Girlfriends in Paris – AMIES
Green: Prefix – ECO
Hay and such for farm animals – FODDER
Home-run run – TROT
I.R.S. digits: Abbr. – SSN
Indianapolis-to-Cleveland dir. – ENE
It lasts 20 years – PATENT
Jack of the old “Tonight Show” – PAAR
Like some straits – DIRE
Like Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe painting – ICONIC
Lowest digit – TOE
Lying on one’s stomach – PRONE

Monopoly card – DEED
Mount of ___ (Jerusalem landmark) – OLIVES
Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016 – DECATHLON
One of 154 by Shakespeare – SONNET
Onetime HBO series set in New Orleans – TREME
Org. in Carl Sagan’s “Contact” – SETI
Oxen connector – YOKE
Period in Congress – SESSION
Periods after Mardi Gras – LENTS
Predator of dolphins – ORCA
Prefix with space – AERO
Prepare to be knighted – KNEEL
Press secretary ___ Huckabee Sanders – SARAH
Put in office – ELECT
Ready – SET
Really, really old – PRIMEVAL
Row – SPAT
Say “When I was with my good friend Barack last week …,” e.g. – NAMEDROP
Smidgen – IOTA
Some long novels – EPICS
Something that gives you a sinking feeling – QUICKSAND
Standard dog name – ROVER
Start running – MELT
Suffix in many language names – ESE
Summer hangout – POOL
Surrender – CEDE
Takes the wildness out of – TAMES
The Emerald Isle – ERIN
The Kleenex of cotton swabs – QTIP
Tiptoe, perhaps – SNEAK
To whom “break a leg” is said – ACTOR
Trolley – TRAM
Vizquel with 11 Gold Gloves – OMAR
Walk like a two-year-old, say – TODDLE
Wear away – ERODE
Word ignored when alphabetizing – THE
Word repeated before “again” – TRY
Worn out – SPENT
You are, south of the border – ERES
Zeniths – ACMES