9 January 2024 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 9 January 2024

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O
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Lawn game played with a ball known as a pallino : BOCCE
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Thin snack : WAFER
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Formal words of commitment : ISHALL
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Omitted, as a syllable : ELIDED
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Toyed (with) : FLIRTED
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Neighborhood in lower Manhattan : NOLITA
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Exhibited heliotropism, as a flower : FOLLOWEDTHESUN
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Plus-or-minus one? : ION
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Joe's co-host on "Morning Joe" : MIKA
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Part of a Tolkien army : ORC
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Big fuss : ADO
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What gives a gin fizz its fizz : SODA
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Novelist Brontë : ANNE
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Prepared for an oral exam? : SAIDAH
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Construction beam : IBAR
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Abolitionist who wrote "Twelve Years a Slave" : SOLOMONNORTHUP
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Fantasy sports scoring standard, informally : ROTO
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Bygone phrase for "gone by" : OFYORE
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"Enough! I get it!" : OKOK
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Overly proper : PRIM
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Cambridge or Oxford, to a Londoner : UNI
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Big initials in theaters : AMC
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Dip that might be made in a molcajete, informally : GUAC
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Poor review : PAN
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Went uneaten, as some groceries : SATINTHEFRIDGE
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Classic Asimov collection : IROBOT
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Part of a calendar septet, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme : TUESDAY
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Florida's "Sunshine City," for short : STPETE
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Futile : NOHOPE
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Philly basketball player : SIXER
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Leafs (through) : PAGES
Down
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Bully in "Back to the Future" : BIFF
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Home for the artist Edvard Munch : OSLO
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Spicy ramen condiment : CHILIOIL
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Monte ___ : CARLO
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John who sang "Bennie and the Jets" : ELTON
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Exploded : WENTKABOOM
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Lei man's term? : ALOHA
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Rank's counterpart, on a chessboard : FILE
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New Jersey city named for its most famous former resident : EDISON
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Come back : RETURN
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___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly) : LEW
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Ballet or ballroom, e.g. : DANCE
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First phase of a home reno : DEMO
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Finished off : DIDIN
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Word after kick or bad : ASS
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"The Way," in Chinese Pinyin : DAO
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Track-and-field athlete with a strong arm : SHOTPUTTER
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Pretentiously avant-garde : ARTY
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Dweeb : DORK
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Te ___ ("I love you," in Spanish) : AMO
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Yap from a lap? : ARF
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Jazz singer Jones : NORAH
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Elvis hit that was the B-side of "Don't Be Cruel" : HOUNDDOG
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Caterer's container : URN
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Smallest Canadian province, for short : PEI
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Stop in a desert : OASIS
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Once-popular big box stores : KMARTS
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Ocean creatures with nearly triple the neural wiring of humans : OCTOPI
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Rapper whose name sounds like a beverage : ICET
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Thousand-dollar bill, slangily : GNOTE
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Before surgery, informally : PREOP
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Writer/podcaster Harris : AISHA
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Mountain goat : IBEX
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A good time : FUN
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Be wide-open : GAPE
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Parts of the "Mona Lisa" that seem to follow you around : EYES