20 October 2019 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 20 October 2019

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Hints & Clues

Across
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World capital with the historic Temple of Hercules : AMMAN
6
Responses to an offer, colloquially : BITES
11
___ Dunphy, "Modern Family" matriarch : CLAIRE
12
Slow Wi-Fi woe : LAG
15
Actor Don of old Hollywood : AMECHE
17
Uninteresting and self-absorbed : SHALLOW
18
One-named electronic musician and D.J. with multiple Grammys : DIPLO
20
Paranoid types, slangily : TINHATS
22
Futon alternatives : AIRBEDS
23
Stand that an artist might take : EASEL
24
Villainous brother of Prospero in "The Tempest" : ANTONIO
25
E-sports enthusiast : GAMER
26
Melt down, as fat : RENDER
29
Occasion to sing "Dayenu" : SEDER
30
Long narrative poem : EPIC
31
Ice skating spot : POND
32
Crew : TEAM
34
Faux pas : DONT
35
Picasso's "___ Demoiselles d'Avignon" : LES
36
Baseball hit just beyond the infield : BLOOP
37
"No kidding!" : IKNOW
39
Malawi-to-Kenya dir. : NNE
40
Element used in old television tubes : YTTRIUM
42
Creator of a philosophical "razor" : OCCAM
46
Best friend of Potter and Weasley : GRANGER
48
Banquet vessels : URNS
49
Speechify : ORATE
50
One frequently saying "Sorry, I missed that" : SIRI
51
Like classic Disney films : RATEDG
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Golfer's vehicle : CART
56
"No fighting!" : BENICE
60
Geologic period : ERA
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Eye roll accompanier, often : SIGH
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Muscle Beach sight : BOD
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Their eggs are incubated by males : EMUS
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Eldest of the "little women" in "Little Women" : MEG
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Wettish : DAMP
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It's always something : NOUN
71
What may follow bigger or better : THAN
72
Farrah Fawcett's signature do : SHAG
73
Sikorsky of aviation : IGOR
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"Message received" : GOTIT
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Rabid enthusiast : FIEND
77
Warrior, e.g., in yoga : POSE
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Actress Roberts of "Everybody Loves Raymond" : DORIS
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Homeowner's need : DEED
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Like most standardized tests : TIMED
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Tribe famous for weaving and sand painting : NAVAJO
85
Crème de la crème : ELITE
86
Really tickles : ELATES
88
Russian ruler known as "the Moneybag" : IVANI
90
It's in the bag : TEA
91
Fruit in an often-parodied William Carlos Williams poem : PLUMS
92
Dark forebodings : EVILOMENS
96
N.B.A. franchise whose mascot is the fireball Burnie : MIAMIHEAT
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Kind of tuna : BIGEYE
101
Troglodyte : CAVEMAN
105
Base of a column : PLINTH
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Juul, e.g. : ECIG
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It can open a lot of doors for you : SKELETONKEY
110
Historical role for Peter Lorre in "The Story of Mankind" : NERO
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Party that might not start till midnight : RAVE
112
Classic kids' game involving removal of body parts ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme : OPERATION
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Qatari leader : EMIR
114
102-Down, affectedly : TRES
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Minuscule, informally : ITSY
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"It is the ___, and Juliet is the sun" : EAST
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Actress Cannon : DYAN
Down
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Top celebs : ALIST
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Red wine from France : MALBEC
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Middle-distance runner : MILER
4
Nickname for an ESPN baseball commentator : AROD
5
Post production locales? : NEWSROOMS
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Weapons thrown by the Dark Knight : BATARANGS
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Volunteer's phrase : IMIN
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Sights on many music festival grounds : TENTS
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Seconded, so to speak : ECHOED
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Karaoke selection : SONG
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Gift that grows on you? : CHIAPET
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Fabulist : LIAR
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Semidomed church area : APSE
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Secluded valley : GLEN
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Saint-___, capital of the Loire department : ETIENNE
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With wisdom : SAGELY
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Wisecracking Marvel superhero : DEADPOOL
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Experienced one : OLDTIMER
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Worker at a recycling plant : SORTER
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British rocker Brian : ENO
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Cry of terror : EEK
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Contact electronically : PING
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Middle of a diamond : MOUND
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Hawks, e.g. : BIRDS
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They might be hawked : WARES
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Lament : RUE
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Mobile home? : CRIB
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Ukulele accessory : CAPO
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Not much : ATAD
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Writer Anaïs : NIN
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Fixed up : REDID
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Old kingdom of Spain : ARAGON
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Author Pierce of the fantasy series "The Song of the Lioness" : TAMORA
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Way down : CHUTE
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Response to tickling : TEHEE
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"Hi, honey!" follower : IMHOME
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Finishes : CEASES
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Urged (on) : EGGED
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"Now that was funny!" : GOODONE
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Peace Nobelist who went on to become president : MANDELA
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Outhouses : PRIVIES
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Well, I'll be dammed! : NILE
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Drain : TIRE
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Treated meanly : SPITED
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Inclination : TILT
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Brine-cured cheese : FETA
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Classic Harlem ballroom, with "the" : SAVOY
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Go (for) : VIE
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Language from which "curry" comes : TAMIL
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King who lent his name to a Bible : JAMES
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Like most oatmeal : LUMPY
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Plant, as an idea, modern-style : INCEPT
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Communist sympathizers, pejoratively : PINKOS
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He was "thumb" critic! : EBERT
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Bishop's deputy : VICAR
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"Mercy!" : IGIVE
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Metric of corporate success : SALES
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Frenzy : MANIA
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Other side : ENEMY
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Features of many malls : ATRIA
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Part of an acacia tree : THORN
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See 114-Across : VERY
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Subj. of a "Delayed" sign : ETA
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Speck : MOTE
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Decorative fish : KOI
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"The Lord of the Rings" tree creature : ENT