5 December 2017 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 5 December 2017

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Kindergarten learning : ABCS
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Place with hot rocks : SAUNA
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Golf shot near a green : CHIP
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Cemetery purchase : PLOT
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Tells to "Do it!" : URGES
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Long-eared hopper : HARE
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Anchor man? : POPEYETHESAILOR
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Sacred Egyptian bug : SCARAB
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Southern drawl, e.g. : ACCENT
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Snack you might bite or lick : OREO
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"Lovely ___" (Beatles song) : RITA
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Sound technician? : MARINEBIOLOGIST
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They come with buds : IPODS
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Space ball : ORB
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Star-crossed lover of literature : ROMEO
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Secretive org. : CIA
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Bare minimum : LEAST
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Tennis barrier : NET
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What dropping off a last child at college is, to many parents : SADDAY
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Star of "An Inconvenient Truth" : ALGORE
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Giant in health plans : CIGNA
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Cancel, as a rocket launch : ABORT
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Beat reporter? : ALLENGINSBERG
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One not reporting for duty, maybe : AWOL
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2017, por ejemplo : ANO
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Cartoon "Ouch!" : YEOW
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Suffers from : HAS
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Quaint gestures of gratitude : HATTIPS
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Noshed : ATE
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"Right you ___!" : ARE
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Sister brand of Baby Ruth : OHHENRY
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It stains : DYE
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Resting place : BED
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Executive producer? : WHARTON
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Blab : YAK
Down
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Smartphone downloads : APPS
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Congress's Freedom Caucus, e.g. : BLOC
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Nightclub in a Manilow song : COPA
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Olympics no-no : STEROID
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Honey brand since 1921 : SUEBEE
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"The creation of beauty," per Ralph Waldo Emerson : ART
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"Yuck!" : UGH
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Maiden name intro : NEE
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Batter, e.g. : ASSAIL
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City said to have big shoulders : CHICAGO
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In great shape : HALE
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Resource in the Mesabi Range : IRON
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Cheeky : PERT
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Hard-to-believe stories : YARNS
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One in a cast : ACTOR
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Instrument with cane blades : OBOE
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Steals : ROBS
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Hot ones can cause trouble : MICS
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Capital of Samoa : APIA
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Sign akin to "Bridge Out" : ROADCLOSED
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One of the Gershwins : IRA
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"Hold on, give me a second" : IMNOTREADY
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Future predictor : SEER
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Many a pledge drive gift : TOTE
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Loretta who was the subject of "Coal Miner's Daughter" : LYNN
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Word document settings : TABS
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___ pickle : DILL
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5 or 6, for a kindergartner, typically : AGE
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High toss : LOB
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___ Goose (vodka brand) : GREY
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Dame of mystery : AGATHA
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Consecrate : ANOINT
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Cognizant : AWARE
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Bury : INTER
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Successful prankster's cry : GOTYA
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Melville monomaniac : AHAB
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Span for The New Yorker : WEEK
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Know-___ : HOW
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Appropriate rhyme for "spa" : AHH
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For : PRO
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Roget's entry: Abbr. : SYN