31 October 2016 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 31 October 2016

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D
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U
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R
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H
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M
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D
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F
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M
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N
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M
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Y
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M
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B
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B
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S
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L
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U
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D
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B
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C
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K
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K
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N
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D
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S
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G
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Twin city of Raleigh : DURHAM
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Dictionary offering: Abbr. : DEF
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The "m" of e = mc2 : MASS
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Italian cheese : ASIAGO
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Tire filler : AIR
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Give off : EMIT
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1988 #1 hit for UB40 : REDREDWINE
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"___ going!" : NICE
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Oak or elm : TREE
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Big feature on a donkey : EAR
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Empty ___ (parent whose children have all moved away) : NESTER
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1971 hit for Marvin Gaye subtitled "The Ecology" : MERCYMERCYME
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Toy gun pellets : BBS
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Year: Sp. : ANO
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List-ending abbr. : ETAL
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Regions : AREAS
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"___ Lay Dying" : ASI
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Like some textbooks : USED
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1920s standard with the lyric "Sugar's sweet, so is she" : BYEBYEBLACKBIRD
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Woman in "The King and I" : ANNA
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12, on a grandfather clock : XII
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___ bin Laden, 2011 Navy SEALs target : OSAMA
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Salt, chemically : NACL
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Psychic power, informally : ESP
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June preceder : MAY
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1986 hit for Talking Heads : WILDWILDLIFE
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Classical music halls : ODEONS
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Decay : ROT
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Yawn-inducing : BLAH
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Gas in commercial signs : NEON
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1990 hit that samples the bass line from Queen/Bowie's "Under Pressure" : ICEICEBABY
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1941 film "citizen" : KANE
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Complain, complain, complain : NAG
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Laid down the first card : OPENED
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Toboggan, e.g. : SLED
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Route displayer on a dashboard, for short : GPS
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Word with finger or America : MIDDLE
Down
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Something thrown at a bull's-eye : DART
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Pusher's customer : USER
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Carnival attraction : RIDE
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___ pants (baggy wear) : HAREM
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See 6-Down : AGE
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With 5-Down, present time : MODERN
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Grocery section with milk and yogurt : DAIRY
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German "a" : EIN
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Crazily fast : FRENETIC
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"Old boys' network" meeting places : MENSCLUBS
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Friendliness : AMITY
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Cry to an attack dog : SICEM
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One cubic meter : STERE
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City between Dallas and Austin : WACO
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A pitching ace has a low one, in brief : ERA
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Like a Monday crossword puzzle, relatively speaking : EASY
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Western plateau : MESA
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See 34-Down : BABA
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___ Mawr College : BRYN
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Observed : SEEN
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Left behind : ABANDONED
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With 27-Down, foe of the Forty Thieves : ALI
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Setting for "The King and I" : SIAM
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Funny Bombeck : ERMA
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June 6, 1944 : DDAY
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Removing surgically : EXCISING
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New York City mayor de Blasio : BILL
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Head: Ger. : KOPF
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Barley beard : AWN
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"The Time Machine" race : ELOI
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"30 Rock" or "3rd Rock From the Sun" : SITCOM
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Policy experts : WONKS
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Perfect : IDEAL
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Sierra ___ (African country) : LEONE
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Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff : DREGS
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Flowed back : EBBED
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Word that fills both blanks in "This ___ is your ___" : LAND
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Brother of Cain : ABEL
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Jekyll's alter ego : HYDE
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Item of apparel often worn backward : CAP
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Commercial lead-in to Pen : EPI