16 February 2012 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 16 February 2012

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

Across
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Goof : SLIPUP
7
Boo-boo : FLUFF
12
Player of TV's Caine : CARUSO
13
Circus performance or concert : LIVEACT
16
Lined, as a furnace hearth : FETTLED
17
Representative's work : AGENTRY
18
Nice one : UNE
19
L.A.P.D. part : LOS
20
Bro's greeting : WHASSUP
21
With 29-/30-Across, wiggle room ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme : MARGIN
23
"You ___!" : BET
24
Stir : TODO
25
Monty Python title character : BRIAN
26
Chocolate dessert : MUDPIE
28
It may have bullets : LIST
29
See 21-Across : FOR
30
See 21-Across : ERROR
33
Yuma-to-Tombstone dir. : ESE
34
Excuse : OUT
35
It may come from a well : INK
36
Stumble, in a way : HEM
38
Kind of net : TRAWL
40
Ones stuck in the hospital, for short? : IVS
41
Approval in Rome : SISI
42
Medicine : REMEDY
44
Blue-roofed dining spots : IHOPS
45
"I heard ___!" : THAT
48
Shut-___ : INS
49
"Hold on" : ONESEC
50
Flushes : REDDENS
52
Quad bike, e.g. : ATV
53
2011 Rose Bowl winner, for short : TCU
54
One caught by border patrol : ILLEGAL
55
Market town that's a suburb of London : REIGATE
57
Folded like a fan : PLICATE
58
Mint : CREATE
59
Gaffe : BONER
60
Screwup : HOWLER
Down
1
Film planner : SCENARIST
2
Slugabed : LATERISER
3
First subway line in N.Y.C. : IRT
4
Grab a parking spot : PULLIN
5
Hit with, as a pickup line : USEON
6
Jet engine housings : PODS
7
Imperfect : FLAWED
8
Implements for "writing" on computer screens : LIGHTPENS
9
Part of the face whose name is derived from the Latin for "grape" : UVEA
10
1960s title sitcom character : FENSTER
11
Tubby : FATSO
14
Gunk : CRUD
15
Misprint : TYPO
16
Flub : FUMBLE
22
Old gang weapon : GAT
23
Prickly seedcase : BUR
26
Vocabulaire part : MOT
27
Get to : IRK
29
Rant : FULMINATE
31
School whose football stadium is nicknamed the Horseshoe : OHIOSTATE
32
Obeyer, as of laws : RESPECTER
34
"You ___ me" : OWE
35
Brown, e.g. : IVY
37
Muff : MISCUE
39
Like New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel : ARTDECO
40
Wallet items, in brief : IDS
41
Lord Byron's "___ Walks in Beauty" : SHE
43
Tony-winning playwright Eve : ENSLER
44
Seen : INVIEW
45
Pratfall : TRIP
46
The pits : HELL
47
It's not scripted : ADLIB
49
New Mexico county : OTERO
51
Susan of Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" : EGAN
52
Eyebrow shape : ARCH
56
Miss at a hoedown : GAL