21 December 2003 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 21 December 2003

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C
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H
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O
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S
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E
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V
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Y
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P
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T
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E
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P
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E
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S
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A
L
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Y
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G
R
R
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B
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L
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B
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B
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B
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M
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V
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P
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Y
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B
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L
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R
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G
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M
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O
B
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N
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B
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L
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N
D
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T
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L
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C
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C
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S
O
D
O
U
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N
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L
A
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C
H
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D
O
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O
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P
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J
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Y
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T
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B
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L
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M
L
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P
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N
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M
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P
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G
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C
A
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N
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D
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F
L
U
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W
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D
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R
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L
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B
O
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Select : CHOOSE
7
"Kojak" star : SAVALAS
14
When Romeo talks to Juliet on the balcony : ACTTWO
20
They can dish it out : LADLES
21
Sans sense : INANELY
22
Bit of progress : INROAD
23
Start of a Christmas verse : OHIINTENDTOGOMYROUNDS
26
Large baskets : PANNIERS
27
Fleming or Hunter : IAN
28
___ Park : ESTES
29
Meadow : LEA
30
Fairy tale start : ONCE
31
Downed a sub, say : ATE
32
Indian council setting : TEPEE
36
Like tears : SALTY
38
Watchdog's greeting : GRR
39
Spill the beans : BLAB
43
Skater's jump : AXEL
44
"Ad ___ per aspera" (Kansas' motto) : ASTRA
46
Indonesian vacation destination : BALI
47
Fashionable beach resort : LIDO
48
Verse, part 2 : BUTIAMHEAVIERBYPOUNDS
53
"To the Poets," for one : ODE
54
The good earth : LOAM
55
Grayish : DRAB
56
Cambodian money : RIELS
57
"___ the fields we go" : OER
58
Use a wok : FRY
59
Age following the Stone Age : BRONZE
61
"Under the Volcano" star, 1984 : FINNEY
62
Certain bridge : TRESTLE
64
Laundry job : SORTING
66
Donnybrooks : MELEES
69
Unspontaneous ones : ROBOTS
71
"Wheel of Fortune" buy : ANO
72
What Eng. majors get : BAS
75
Cousin of a gnu : ELAND
76
Summers on the Seine : ETES
77
One of the Waughs : ALEC
78
Often-repeated abbr. : ETC
79
Verse, part 3 : SODOUNLATCHADOORORTWO
85
Unwrap, as a gift : OPEN
86
Not manually, after "on" : AUTO
87
Female donkey : JENNY
88
"L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT
89
Crimefighter of early '60s TV : NESS
90
"___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" : ITS
91
Trumpet sound : BLARE
93
Lifeless : INERT
94
11th-century date : MLI
95
Grizzly : BEAR
96
Goat-legged god : PAN
98
Dust busters : MAIDS
100
50 Cent piece : RAP
101
Some wedding embellishments : CORSAGES
106
End of the verse : ICANNOTFITINSIDEAFLUE
111
"Later" : NOTNOW
112
Of the lymph glands : ADENOID
113
Undivided : ENTIRE
114
Nonresident doctor : EXTERN
115
Kind of strength : TENSILE
116
Sappho's home : LESBOS
Down
1
Sound effect in a western : CLOP
2
"That's hysterical!" : HAHA
3
God who presided over the Aesir : ODIN
4
Actor Ken : OLIN
5
In one's dotage : SENILE
6
Cosmetician Lauder : ESTEE
7
Confession recitals : SINS
8
"___ a partridge in a pear tree" : AND
9
Winery sight : VAT
10
Officially designate : ANOINT
11
Inheritance : LEGACY
12
How Santa travels : ALONE
13
Orchestra: Abbr. : SYM
14
Touchdown site : AIRSTRIP
15
Place to see a Ben Franklin portrait : CNOTE
16
Constant : TRUE
17
A huge amount : TONS
18
Real mouthful : WAD
19
Some hosp. cases : ODS
24
Span of time : ERA
25
Like Santa's visit : YEARLY
30
Norwegian king : OLAV
32
Off-limits : TABOO
33
Display : EXUDE
34
Pumpkin eater of the nursery : PETER
35
Yalie : ELI
36
Hold back : STEM
37
Neighbor of Scorpius : ARA
38
Gossip : GABBER
39
Wash whitener : BLUING
40
Table covers : LINEN
41
Confuse : ADDLE
42
High-handed : BOSSY
44
Ovid's love elegies : AMORES
45
Rural carriages : SHAYS
46
Texas river : BRAZOS
49
Sch. in upstate N.Y. : ALFREDU
50
Courtroom affirmation : IDO
51
"Ninotchka" director ___ Lubitsch : ERNST
52
Part of the Venezuela/ Colombia border : ORINOCO
59
Pie-eyed : BLOTTO
60
Renaissance fiddle : REBEC
61
Sunday best : FINERY
62
Mortise insertions : TENONS
63
Sugar plums and candy canes : TREATS
65
Claw : TALON
66
Quark-plus-antiquark particle : MESON
67
Skip off : ELOPE
68
Puts on, as cargo : LADES
70
Kyrgyz city : OSH
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Davis of "Jezebel" : BETTE
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Battling : ATWAR
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"Ivanhoe" author : SCOTT
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Top-rated : AONE
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Settle once and for all : NAILDOWN
81
Elizabethan musician : LUTIST
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Slightly open : AJAR
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Wagner's "___ fliegende Hollander" : DER
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Stimpy's TV pal : REN
91
Defeated : BEATEN
92
Rabbit furs : LAPINS
93
Bonkers : INSANE
94
Nondrinker by law : MINOR
95
Mrs. Santa Claus, long ago : BRIDE
96
Pea's place : POD
97
Dancing giddily : AREEL
98
Drudge of the Internet : MATT
99
Last of the House of Stuart : ANNE
101
Funny ___, 2003 Derby winner : CIDE
102
Ship positions : AFTS
103
Smooth-tongued : GLIB
104
Foreign money : EURO
105
Dates : SEES
106
Suffix with elephant : INE
107
Loser to Harding in 1920 : COX
108
Like Santa : FAT
109
"___ do not!" : NOI
110
Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL