23 December 2018 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 23 December 2018

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Hints & Clues

Across
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English guy : CHAP
5
Partner in indecision with 5-Down : HEM
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Alternative to pavement : GRAVEL
14
What leads many people to say "Let's face it"? : MECCA
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Spanish greeting : HOLA
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G.I.'s address : APO
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California's motto : EUREKA
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Like a truck descending a steep hill : INLOW
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Sources of Manchego cheese : EWES
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How polka bands get their start? : WITHONEACCORDION
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Org. with an annual Help a Horse Day : ASPCA
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Big suit : CEO
30
Harvard University Press's ___ Classical Library : LOEB
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Hundredths: Abbr. : PCTS
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Pontiff's gold treasure? : PAPALBULLION
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Performed creditably : DIDOK
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Word with store or sign : DOLLAR
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Value : ESTEEM
43
Like powwows : TRIBAL
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Register things : SALES
48
Star bursts : NOVAE
49
Summer hat : PANAMA
50
Enthrones : CROWNS
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Query about the Freedom Caucus or Berniecrats? : ISTHATAFACTION
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Noted beauty contest loser : HERA
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Most remote of the Near Islands : ATTU
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Irish port, county or bay : SLIGO
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"Shame!" : TSK
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Sushi eel : UNAGI
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Improvised : RIFFED
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Some refuges : DENS
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Figure in Jewish folklore : GOLEM
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Like some factories ... or, in a different sense, like 90-, 109- and 119-Across (but not 24-, 32- and 53-Across)? : UNIONIZED
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Potentially unhelpful answer to "Who's there?" : ITSME
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Speed : RACE
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The 21st Amendment, e.g. : REPEAL
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Biblical spy : CALEB
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Wonder : AWE
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Dutch cheese : GOUDA
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Pas sans : AVEC
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Awestruck : GAGA
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Nickname for a hard-to-please girl? : MISSIMPOSSIBLE
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Room to maneuver : LEEWAY
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Certifiable, so to speak : INSANE
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Bygone office position : STENO
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Unctuousness : SMARM
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White part of pearly whites : ENAMEL
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Offshore sight, maybe : OILRIG
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Vexes : ANNOYS
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Arabic name that sounds like a polite affirmative : YASIR
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Data maintained by competitive dentists? : FILLINGSTATS
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Envelope abbr. : ATTN
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That's right! : EAST
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Italian article : UNA
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Intentionally lost : THREW
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Speakers' searches for just the right words? : RHETORICALQUESTS
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Halliburton of the Halliburton Company : ERLE
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Buckwheat cereal : KASHA
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Restroom sign : LADIES
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Antidiscriminatory abbr. : EEO
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Iago or Othello : ROLE
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It notably has two bridges : SITAR
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Bleachers : STANDS
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"x" in 5x = x2 รท 2 : TEN
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Tit for tat? : SWAP
Down
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Shoddy : CHEAP
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"Alas!" : HOWSAD
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War-torn Syrian city : ALEPPO
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Philosophical argument for belief in God : PASCALSWAGER
5
Partner in indecision with 5-Across : HAW
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Connoisseur of food and drink : EPICURE
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One might be found near a cloverleaf : MOTEL
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Modern prefix with tag : GEO
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Series : RUN
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Word with you but not me : ARE
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Main ingredient in Wiener schnitzel : VEAL
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Kitchenware brand : EKCO
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Like corsets : LACED
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Russian "peace" : MIR
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Terminus : ENDPOINT
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Online enticement : CLICKBAIT
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Codger : COOT
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Botanical bristles : AWNS
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Evidence left by a moth : HOLE
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Dead reckoning? : OBITPAGE
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___ Alcorn, creator of Pong : ALLAN
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Wood for a raft : BALSA
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"And who ___?" : ISNT
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Texter's transition : OTOH
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St. Petersburg's river : NEVA
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Unduly harsh : DRACONIC
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Has a 42-Down : EATS
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See 41-Down : MEAL
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___ Lee, singer with the 2011 #1 album "Mission Bell" : AMOS
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All limbs : LANK
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Audit a class, say : SITIN
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Move slowly (along) : CHUG
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City near the Sierras : RENO
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What comes before "B"? : ORAL
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Islamic mystic : SUFI
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Tinker (with) : FIDDLE
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Align : TRUEUP
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Doesn't really see : IMAGINES
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Gift tag word : FOR
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Lansing-to-Flint dir. : ENE
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Brief swim : DIP
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Protective sorts in showbiz : STAGEMOTHERS
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Fervor : ZEAL
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Some runoff sites : EAVES
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BBQ side : SLAW
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What can go before watt : MEGA
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Rare success story from the dot-com bubble : EBAY
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More pulchritudinous : COMELIER
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Beau's girl : AMIE
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___-Dixie (grocery chain) : WINN
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It's not as simple as a), b), c) : ESSAYTEST
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"Go ahead!" : DOSO
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Italian wine city : ASTI
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Trolley sound : CLANG
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Bee, e.g. : SAMANTHA
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Introvert's focus : SELF
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Cross inscription : INRI
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Seethe : BOIL
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Max at the MoMA : ERNST
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Sea cow : MANATEE
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Need for a model : GLUE
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Flowering herb also known as devil's nettle : YARROW
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Woman's name that means "star" : STELLA
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Banisters : RAILS
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Not loose, as a diamond : INSET
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4-0 series, say : SWEEP
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Some refuges : ARKS
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Like panang curry : THAI
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"Git!" : SCAT
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"I did it!" : TADA
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It fits in a lock : OAR
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Architect Maya : LIN
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Mathematician's 116-Down : QED
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Inits. before many state names : USS
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Jesus Christ, with "the" : SON