31 December 2005 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 31 December 2005

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O
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P
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L
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P
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B
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Some bait : INSECTS
8
Best-selling novel featuring lawyer Mitch McDeere : THEFIRM
15
Central Vermont, e.g. : MOUNTAINOUSAREA
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Element of irony : OPPOSITEMEANING
18
Ship, to a poet : KEEL
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Not separate : WED
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Possessive on a Chinese menu : TSOS
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Semidome sites : APSES
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Cry of disbelief : PAH
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Son of Prince Valiant : ARN
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Far from welcoming : ICY
30
___-Mex : CAL
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Cut : LOP
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Not take risks : BEONTHESAFESIDE
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Neighbor of a Prussian : ALSACELORRAINER
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Unsentimental practicality : TOUGHMINDEDNESS
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F1 neighbor : ESC
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He played Sam on "Cheers" : TED
43
Expert finish? : ISE
44
Rob Roy's rejection : NAE
45
Movie inits. : HBO
47
Related Nobel-winning physicists : BOHRS
49
Film critic Balázs : BELA
51
"I get it!" : AHA
53
They have no grace : OAFS
57
1994 Christopher Walken comedy : ABUSINESSAFFAIR
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Townsman : LOCALINHABITANT
63
Dry, in a way : INKLESS
64
Sail : GOBYSEA
Down
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Comment after an accident : IMOK
2
Informal rejection : NOPE
3
Apartment V.I.P. : SUPE
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Col. Paul Tibbets's mother : ENOLA
5
Pieces of bread?: Abbr. : CTS
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Popular sushi fish : TAI
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Host's invitation : SIT
8
Substantial volume : TOME
9
In color : HUED
10
Spanish pronoun : ESA
11
Coca-Cola Company brand : FANTA
12
Material for tablecloths and doilies : IRISHLINEN
13
City named for a Civil War general : RENO
14
They're often sold with papers : MAGS
16
Intelligence : NEWS
22
Target : PITCHTO
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Project : SCHEME
24
Shadow site : EYELID
25
One before a tribunal, maybe : PLEADER
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Moderate : ABATE
27
Slangy moves : RELOS
28
"It didn't work out" : NOSUCHLUCK
30
Part of many workouts, informally : CARDIO
31
From the top : AFRESH
33
Ukrainian port, to natives : ODESA
34
As such : PERSE
36
Peck at : NAG
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Many a delivery : SON
38
Anger, e.g. : SIN
46
Primary : BASAL
47
Big do : BASH
48
Movable type : SOFTY
49
Part of Indonesia : BALI
50
Dark, in verse : EBON
51
French cordial flavoring : ANIS
52
Natural incubators : HENS
54
Some batteries : AAAS
55
Something to be slapped with : FINE
56
Abbr. on Mexican mail : SRTA
58
Part of l'Indonésie : ILE
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Decline in price : SAG
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Typing system : ABO
61
Inconsequential invention : FIB